Confess Quotes

I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.

The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.

I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

I will confess I am a great wingman. Since I have a girlfriend, I'll start the night with her, but then I'll help out the guys by making them sound like the most incredible guys in the world.

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.

As for discipline and rules, I confess, I've never been good with either.

I confess I've never felt like a passenger.

As surely as I am the living God, everyone will kneel before me, and everyone will confess that I am God.

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive.

I really like birds. Everyone always wants me to say that I can't stand to go near them, just like they want Janet Leigh to confess that she can't bear to take a shower. Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you.

All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

Confess and be hanged.