"I've confessed to everything and I's liked to……" — Franny Billingsley
"I've confessed to everything and I's liked to be hanged. Now, if you please"
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Franny Billingsley
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67 Quotes by Franny Billingsley
Franny Billingsley has 67 quotes on this site.
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I explained we lost the porch to the flood. Father hasn't gotten around to rebuilding it, although he's quite a…
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I don't know what it is, but I ache for it each day. It's as though I have eyes, but…
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The beach has a language of its own, with its undulating ribbons of silt, the imponderable hieroglyphs of bird tracks.…
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...if you don't argue, you can't give in...
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Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and…
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I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the…
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If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe…
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It is true that I can trip over anything and nothing – a speck of dust, a patch of sunlight,…
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It's one thing to keep secrets. It's quite another to lie.
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A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its…
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Father’s silence is not merely the absence of sound. It’s a creature with a life of its own. It chokes…
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I might be a wicked girl who'd think nothing of eating a baby for breakfast, but I'd never allow myself…
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More Confessed Quotes
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one of 92 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
— Samuel Johnson
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There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart…
— James Madison
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If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him…
— Barack Obama
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Christianity, like most religions, works with fear. Sins can be confessed and you are 'Clean again' and can start to…
— Twiggy
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You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.
— Keith Richards
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No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women…
— Ida B. Wells
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You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We…
— Rush Limbaugh
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That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even…
— Samuel Johnson
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Living day in and day out with guilt over sin that has not been properly confessed and forsaken expends a…
— Lou Priolo
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I believe the Bible is the best gift God ever gave to man. All the good from the Savior of…
— Abraham Lincoln
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When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the…
— Dale Carnegie
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