Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roscoe Bartlett

It takes great courage to admit that you've made a mistake,

Roman Sebrle

I wanted to wait until the birth and only then make the decision. I came after a hectic week, with not enough time to rest. But I must admit I expected a higher score. But a win is a win and I have enough time left to prepare well for Moscow.

It took me a long time to admit it. But she had a big crush on me, and it killed her to see me with other girls.

Franco Frattini

It will be up to each member state to decide whether and how many people are admitted every year, but Europe will deal with common standards.

Edward Said

It will not take a modern Victorian specialist long to admit that liberal cultural heroes like John Stuart Mill, Arnold, Carlyle, Newman, Macaulay, Ruskin, George Eliot, and even Dickens had definite views on race and imperialism, which are quite easily to be found at work in their writing.

Benjamin Rush

The turgid style of Johnson, the purple glare of Gibbon, and even the studied and thickset metaphors of Junius are all equally unnatural, and should not be admitted into our company.

They did not play well here, they'll be the first to admit that. But down there, they're going to have a crowd and it's going to be loud. I don't think it's going to be easy.

Carsten Juste

They've won. That is what is so appalling. My guess is that no one in the next generation is going to want to draw the Prophet Muhammad in Denmark and therefore I must ashamedly admit it: they've won. Had we known that it would lead to boycotts and Danish lives being endangered as we have seen, then the answer is 'no'.

They work very well today in an environment where the networks are admittedly lightly loaded ... and I'm not only talking about mine, I'm talking about everyone's network. At some point, in order to provide you the same grade of service for that application, we're going to have to differentiate the grades of service.

It is the first time that these companies have admitted to major quantitative reductions in antibiotic use. And it's not just one company but a tier of companies the top tier of companies.

Barry Bonds

It's good to know my instincts haven't gone anywhere, ... With each swing I felt more and more comfortable in there. I'd have to admit that I was satisfied with the results.

Johan Franzen

It's going to be a good game. It is a big rivalry, especially from the Finns' side. They think of themselves as the little brother, even though they may not want to admit it.

It shouldn't be, necessarily, but I will admit when (the media) are not asking you all the Super Bowl questions because they don't really expect you to get there, then you don't think about it.

Jon Gruden

It's been a while since we've had an injection of young talent on this team, whether we all want to admit it or not. The fact is, we have some young guys who we need to play this year, and we need them to play well. And there's a lot of them.

Paul Scott

It's sad to see. But I admit I don't really have a reason to go. Most of the old-timers have children in private schools.

For a long time, no one ever wanted to admit that television was anything but this horrible, horrible contagion in society.

Chris Martin

It's not that the emergency department couldn't take them in, it's that they couldn't get them out. If you don't have beds you can admit them to, you're really at gridlock.

Dusty Baker

It's more of an honor system. I'd be the first one to admit it. But if they're young and they're drinking, they're done anyway. You can tell.

Brandon Roy

It's almost flipped now to where they stopped going to the tournament and we started going to the tournament. He may never admit it, but he may be thinking in the back of his mind, he could be a part of that right now.

It's always great to get that first win. It helps to build confidence. But I have to admit I was kind of bummed when we got down 30-12 in the first half. I just tried to stay positive and realized that it was a fast-paced game and that we could make some adjustments.

It means a lot because you're traveling with 20 of your best friends. Whether you want to admit it or not, they are your best friends because you spend 20 hours a week together.

James Mercer

For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of being this old dude maybe making guitars or something.

Mike Schmidt

There's a lot of sad elements in that thing. It was sad that Pete bet on baseball. It was sad that Pete thought he could get away with it. It was sad the way he confessed, so to speak. The way the league perceived that he admitted to it was sad, and it's sad now the way baseball is handling it. It truly could be put to bed one way or the other, and I think we all sort of wish that would happen for all the parties.

Jimmy Durante

All of us have schnozzles . . . if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles, instead of defending them, we begin to laugh, and the world laughs with us.

Will Rogers

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

A coach sees things very differently than the players. It's important to use that different perspective to educate and encourage. But it's also important, like a good coach, to lead your team by example. For instance, while you should point out mistakes by your employees, be sure to admit when you yourself make a mistake.

Seth Godin

The first step to getting good is admitting that you aren't (yet).

Michael Morpurgo

Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.

I guess I was in denial for a while. I didn't want to admit that there were certain things that I could no longer do.

Dom DeLuise

I had a good time with Burt Reynolds. I must admit that Burt was very generous. He's like a brother to me. He really is amazing.

John Adams

It has escaped no one's attention that celebrating Minimalism in the context of a symphony orchestra is admittedly a problematic fit. Most of the best Minimalist music is not scored for conventional orchestra. But the Los Angeles Philharmonic, being an orchestra that is not only a hundred-piece ensemble but also an amalgam of distinct, highly talented performers, found many ways to make a successful survey of this magnitude.

Lindsay Lohan

I just started bawling. I knew I had a problem, and I couldn't admit it. I saw that 'SNL' after I did it. My arms were disgusting. I had no arms.

Janis Karpinski

Iraq was a huge country, and when you have people largely saying now, 'He may have been a dictator, but we were better under Saddam,' this Administration needs to take notice. And at some point you have to say, 'Stop the train, because it's completely derailed. How do we fix it?' But in an effort to do that, you have to admit that you made a few mistakes, and this Administration is not willing to admit any mistakes whatsoever.