Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Combs

Mr. Berg has no hesitation admitting that what he did was wrong. He's been humiliated by the harm he's caused this young lady.

Kent Cooper

Now you've got someone admitting exactly what the motivation was and explaining all the avenues they used.

Jules Verne

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?

Scott Weiss

Nothing helps make a leader more approachable than admitting your struggles, screw-ups and behind-the-scenes thinking on hard calls. If the leader makes this a priority, the whole company will be more open and methodical learning from failure.

Ira Glass

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

Abraham Lincoln

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

David Whyte

Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless.

Nancy Gibbs

Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

Catherynne M. Valente

Woman! Come out! I have—" She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. "I have come to rescue you," she finally said, as if admitting that she were covered in boils.

Isabella Rossellini

I'd love to meet Darwin. He caused such controversy over whether God created the earth in six days or whether we evolved over time. I'd love to discuss that with him - what a fantastic conversation!

Hasidic Proverb

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men

Jane Brown

Lots of us expected the ice would go out today. While it hasn't been very warm, all the movement caused by the wind and the water rushing in from brooks, continued to melt and shift the ice until it finally moved enough for the clock to stop.

Bill Saunders

Last year's fuel price run-up and Middle East crises may have not only hurt American drivers' pocketbooks but also caused them to feel guilty about operating large, gas-only vehicles. Ethanol power not only allows owners to enjoy large vehicles, but it can also let them feel good about the domestic agricultural economy, American energy independence and the environment.

R. Inge

Many of the disasters and incidents that have occurred around the world have been caused by a corrupt turnstile operator.

David Gilmore

Meanwhile, public works spending has caused a mountain of future liabilities to pile up, and without United States-like growth rates, paying them off is simply not in the cards.

Don Arnold

No conclusion has been reached ... there's still no word what caused this.

Erika Slezak

Multiple personalities are never caused by some mild incident; they're always caused by trauma to the child, either sexual or physical abuse.

Keith Davis

My guess is that warm weather in January caused people to go out and work on their houses.

Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer. A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

Ashley Monroe

I feel like it's the most unnatural thing for two humans, especially of the opposite sex, to live in harmony under one roof. You realize how different men and women are.

Henry David Thoreau

Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody

Bernie Worrell

If a person would study-not extensively, just hands-on, real instruments, and study a little harmony and theory, you could take it even further.

Michael Chertoff

If an ultra-catastrophe occurs, there's going to be some harmful fall-out.

Edward Scolnick

I was sick at the thought we were doing harm to patients.

Nick Hornby

I'm all for peace and harmony between the sexes.

Christina Gallach

Solana says those responsible at the local, political and religious level must prevent any repetition of such acts, which can only harm the image of peaceful Islam.

David Izzo

I'd like to learn a little more (about the system). What would be the harm of tabling it for two weeks?

Franz Kafka

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Jamie Redknapp

Once Liverpool had asked me to sign again, there was no hesitation.

John Gibbons

He was moving like nothing ever happened. I didn't see any hesitation or anything. We'll know better tomorrow.

Andrew Motion

I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems which are sentimental.

John Kerr

(Christian) cashes in on any hesitation by the other player. (He) can read it like an animal.

Jarrad Page

There was too much hesitation out there. They were more sure of themselves than we were. We were just slow.

Hal Sparks

There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Hesitation will get you killed.

Alan Rowe

would be horrified, humiliated and infuriated to know that his memory was dishonored in this way.

O. Singh

Those who take unjustified pride in themselves, are punished and humiliated by the Messenger of Death. O Nanak, who else is there to ask?

Moon Unit Zappa

I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I've been humiliated in.

Tom Renney

We humiliated ourselves. We embarrassed ourselves. I don't think I have to say much more.

Tom Renney

It's a team that lost their poise and their composure, simple as that. ... We humiliated ourselves here today and we embarrassed ourselves.

Red McCombs

You've humiliated all suite attendants with your performance tonight!" ()

Robbie Deans

They were humiliated on the track last weekend and there's only one way they're going to respond to that.

Milan Protic

This is an uprising of a humiliated and impoverished nation.