Quotes About Admission

To be honest, and this is terrible to admit, I hardly read any teen mystery books at all.

The problem with smart people is that they like to be right and sometimes will defend ideas to the death rather than admit they're wrong... Until they come face to face with someone who is tenacious enough to dissect their logic, and resilient enough to endure the thinly veiled intellectual abuse they dish out during debate, they're never forced to question their ability to defend bad ideas.

You shoot another guy—well, okay, this is Baltimore. You shoot three guys, it's time to admit you have a problem.

We admit to almost everything, and the almost is all that counts.

Historically, blacks and Latinos were routinely "carded"—denied admission—to white gay clubs; today, segregated socializing is less pronounced but an expansively "welcoming" atmosphere remains uncommon, and for trans people all but nonexistent. Lesbian activists, comparably, have been subject through time to gay male chauvinism so pronounced that they've felt the need periodically to form separate organizations.

But he agreed that it could not be ruled out.

When I die I hope to go to heaven--whatever that is--and I want to be able to afford the price of admission.

When I die, I hope to go to heaven-- whatever the hell that is-- and I want to be able to afford the price of admission, Virtue is the price of admission. Jim said haughtily. That's what I mean, James. So I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all-- that I was a man who made money. Any grafter can make money. James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning.

by the time your offspring have reached four and five it is far too late to be looking for schools: demand for private education is so high that children must be put down for admission not at birth but in utero, ideally before their first cells have divided.

A wonderful privilege it was to be thus admitted into the soul of a man of genius, to be allowed to share the ecstasies and the agonies of his inmost life.

The first step forward is to admit your fear, then you can take the next step to conquer it.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

Sometimes I felt as if we were all wading around in grief, reluctant to admit to others how far we were wading or drowning.

at least a depressed person will usually admit she's depressed. Curing hypocrisy is much harder because part of the problem is that we don't believe there's a problem.

Leadership demands two kinds of courage: the strength to take a risk, and the humility to admit when a risk fails.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

It was like him, too, to love her and admit to it before he knew if she loved him. Maybe only mortals expected to barter their hearts.

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

Jeff: I'm saying I don't need a limousine to know who I am, alright? Tim: Right on. You know what? He doesn't need to limo, man. Jeff: I mean, you know, at least I admit I don't know. I know that things are fucked up beyond belief and I know that I have nothing original to say about any of it, alright? I don't have an answer. I don't have a fucking message. Tim: Okay, great. Well, now he's crying. Are you guys happy?

Bristlefrost didn't reply for a moment, instead bending her head to give her chest fur a few embarrassed licks. "Yes . . . yes, I do have feelings for you," she admitted at last. "But what can we do about it? Nothing." She closed her eyes briefly as if in pain. "There's no way it can go anywhere.

I added more feathers," Fallen Leaves admitted shyly. "In case you came back." Then he climbed delicately alongside her, and curled his cold body around hers while she drifted back to sleep.

But sometimes, it's harder to admit to ourselves we want love in our lives than it is to keep living without it.

I told her truthfully that it had been more my fault than hers.

Would it have been better for market confidence to have admitted that we were unable to save Lehman?