Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Hazlitt

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.

John Grogan

I confess to being a CNN junkie. And when I'm driving, it's all NPR all the time.

Tyra Banks

I am protective of my own personal life, but I must confess that I enjoy watching people that don't mind telling it all.

Sue Kidd

I grew up in a small town in Georgia, and I must confess that I was mining my memories of that small town. I can vividly see a lot of the scenery in terms of my own place.

I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews.

Silence (in court) may be equivalent to confession

Nimrat Kaur

I love cooking, and I can make real good rajma chawal. It is a time consuming process and only for the consumption of a select few very special people. Also, I can make delicious mutton biryani, but I must confess I have stolen the recipe from my mother.

Mel Torme

There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past.

When I first met Stanley, I said, 'If you did this, you should confess to it, because it'll help. But he said, 'If my innocence will cost me my life, so be it.

Hamish Bowles

There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.

He's a child. Thirteen-year-olds are more susceptible to a false confession than a 40-year-old.

He (James Earl Ray) said he wouldn't confess to anything he didn't do,

Gavin Newsom

I am disappointed but I confess I'm not particularly surprised,

Anatole France

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

I think the worst of the confession season is over.

Abraham Lincoln

It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the Offended power, to confess our national sins, and pray for clemency and forgiveness.

To me, a statement and confession are not necessarily synonymous.

There is nothing, first of all, nothing more sacred then the seal of confession, ... I did not consider this to fall under that precise seal of confession because he had not come to me explicitly seeking absolution, but to find a solution on how he could help his friends.

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

Lord Byron

As to 'Don Juan,' confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world?

Regina Brett

I grew up Catholic. We went to confession on Saturday, stood in the shortest line, since it led to the priest who gave the easiest penance - usually a few Our Fathers and Hail Marys. We confessed in private, prayed our penance and our souls were clean.

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Hamish Bowles

I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.

went publicly and conveyed this material to the lawyers. At this point the seal of confession is not in play.

I have to confess to not being a great forward planner. I'm the kind of person who regularly arranges to have dinner with five different people on the same night.

August Wilson

I have to confess that I'm not a big movie person. I don't go to a lot of films. And I don't know very much about the history of stage-to-film adaptations.

Frank Serpico

I must confess that since the first time I heard myself referred to as a whistle-blower, I cringed, and I am still uneasy with that term. It sounds demeaning. Demeaning for so noble a cause.

Susanna Clarke

I must confess that in my teens and twenties, I loved 'Mansfield Park' rather in spite of Fanny than because of her. Like Fanny's rich, sophisticated cousins, I didn't really get her.

Kinky Friedman

They knew he was a confession machine who would confess to anything. That's what happened that started this long cycle that Max has gotten here.

His confession was no confession at all. He confessed to something he really didn't do.

Ira Levin

You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject.

Amy Grant

Hey, I've got a confession to make. I don't know if you read your mail, but I wrote you a love letter when I was 8.

Once we hit the fourth quarter confession season, we'll see a pullback,