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Quotes About Admits

Thrasymachus admits that all forms of rule are sciences.
~ James N. Powell
This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.
~ Richard Cobden
Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.
~ Richard M. Weaver
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
~ Robert Burton
Haven admits. "Like, how did you get him? No offense. I just thought you were the non-dating type." I frown. The non-dating type? What kind of type is that? A little mushroom who sits at home in a semidark room growing moss?
~ Jenny Han
She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.
~ Christopher Isherwood
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
~ Robert Burton
Also, this library admits (is allowed to admit on certain conditions) some books forbidden generally by the censureship, which is of the strictest; and though Balzac appears very imperfectly, I am delighted to find him at all
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.
~ Jonathan Swift
Why should the court impose a judgment in a case in which the SEC alleges a serious securities fraud, but the defendant neither admits nor denies wrongdoing?
~ Jed S. Rakoff
Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.
~ Julie Burchill
She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.
~ Christopher Isherwood
in the bourgeoisie, honored situations decay through too easy relations; one must beware whom one admits;
~ Victor Hugo
Scarcely a general can be found amongst them who admits that he lost a battle by his own bad leadership.
~ Heinz Linge
The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in his pockets.
~ Patrick O'Brian
The medical community now freely admits that in a larger sense a person's attitude is one of the chief factors in determining the effect of all suffering.
~ Philip Yancey
because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth.
~ Dean Koontz