Famous Quotes & Sayings

I don't believe Larry knows what happened to his mom or where she's at. He admitted something isn't right with her disappearance. He doesn't believe she just up and left.

E. B. White

I'd be less than honest if I didn't admit there is a huge buzz around the country surrounding our game. That just excites the heck out of all of us who are part of the Notre Dame family.

Lloyd Cutler

I am convinced myself that if we had not admitted the Shah, within a month the embassy would have been seized and the hostages taken anyway.

I am certainly in the camp that this rumor makes little sense. If eBay were to make this sort of move it would basically be admitting that 'our core market is decelerating.

We have a pretty good idea (that growth will slow) for the first half and maybe through the summer. Beyond that, we ought to be honest and admit that it gets fuzzy.

Arthur Guiterman

Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before.

Andrae Crouch

I think that if something's really good, and it touches that part of their heart that has been untouched, or maybe it has been touched but they never wanted to admit it, I think that when they get back to that, I think that we are still in a place that people enjoy it the way it's supposed to be enjoyed.

Seamus Heaney

My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there's the reality: there's no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.

Stephen Furst

I finally admitted that obesity and diabetes were part of a life-threatening legacy - and I had to deal with that reality or die.

Helen Garner

While I was writing 'The Spare Room,' I thought, 'I'm going to look really bad in this book - there's no redeeming this kind of awful, ugly emotion', and I thought, 'I'm not going to change it. I'll call the character 'Helen' and admit to those feelings.' I think this is a reason why people write.

George Vecsey

Lance Armstrong has joined the legion of the lost, the great athletes who were barred or exiled for sins admitted or charged or suspected.

Benjamin Tucker

The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.

Francoise Gilot

To change your mind about something is always difficult. I think that people who are big enough to admit they were wrong can be counted on your fingers.

Luke Scott

We have good security. It's hard to get in here. Barring a tactical entry where terrorists come in and hold us hostage, that's about the only thing that could possibly warrant me carrying a gun in the clubhouse. That's highly unlikely, and I admit that. But my personal belief is I don't want to suffer from the poor choices of others.

Edgar Mitchell

My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my home, I'm not very democratic. I think of myself as a benevolent dictator.

The facts in this matter, I thought, were very clear, ... I can't believe she didn't understand that she had participated in this insider trading, and she had tried to cover it up. And the Justice Department is always going to be lenient if you make a plea bargain agreement, if you don't go to court, admit your guilt. It's historically the smart thing to do when you've done something that you shouldn't have.

Marina and the Diamonds

What I hate is that not many people admit to having a big ego, but you have to - and there's nothing wrong with it.

Liane Moriarty

I love hearing other people's stories, and I freely admit I'm scavenging for material through their conversations, but really, at the same time, I'm living an ordinary life.

Joelle Carter

I was almost tragically shy, like, clinically. I should've been admitted somewhere. I think my parents knew, but maybe they didn't think much about it. It's hard walking the Earth shy. You miss out on a lot.

Kirby is a really good team but I have to admit we just kept shooting ourselves in the foot. It was a disappointing day, that's about all I can say.

Kent was the only one to notice the mistake. He could have just kept quiet since he had already signed the card, but decided to admit the mistake.

Ben Spies

I yelled a few choice words under my helmet when the red flag came out. Fortunately, the team gave me a great bike for the restart and I was able to build my lead again. I have to admit I'm a little shocked at well this weekend went.

Nick Harkaway

I wrote the first draft of 'Tigerman' while my wife was pregnant - needless to say, I was relaxed and casual about her well-being during this tender time - and the novel clearly has its center in that panicked parental desperation that accompanies a first child and in the admittedly comedic extremes to which it drives us.

Joslin admitted that the statement was false. That should be enough.

Steve Schmidt

John Kerry is right to say that this moment is a moment of truth, but that truth must include John Kerry admitting that he offers no credible alternatives to the policies in Iraq, and admitting that his suggestions are proposals that the administration is already doing: involving NATO, involving the U.N. and training Iraqi security forces.

It affects them a lot more than they want to admit it does.

I think it's a good day when any of us, any journalistic institution, will strongly investigate itself and will forthrightly admit when wrong.

Mark E. Smith

It can be quite difficult for an adult to admit to having poor basic skills and many would be too ashamed to go to college. But if they study through the medium of football, and go into a friendly environment like a football stadium, it takes the stigma out of it.

Cindy Klassen

It can be hard to get motivated after the Olympics but once you get to the line you're in race mode. I have to admit though that I've been feeling a little homesick as well.

I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too

Min-sik Choi

I admit that I've been beaten up so many times in films, but we do not fake it - we actually have to fight when we shoot to make it real and to save film and time. Even the props that are not real, like the bats are plastic, but they're still very hard, so it still hurts.

Michael Taylor

I admit I was thinking home run all the way in that situation. But, I had to calm down a little bit and just go with the pitch I got to hit.

I admit it's tempting to wish for the perfect boss - the perfect parent - or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not quit, play the hand we've been dealt, and accessorize what we've got.-Carrie (Sex & the City)