Admit Quotes

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.

I don't think I've got the expertise with which to nit-pick, and I freely admit that my motivation to support charities has been emotional, rather than as a result of being particularly well informed as to how the money is used.

The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.

Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it.

The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.

Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance, he's never going to come straight out and say, 'If you own a business you didn't build it.' Alright, maybe he will.

In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment.

Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit.

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.

If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts.