Quotes About Confession

The Queen's Consort?' 'Yes. I once robbed him.' 'Indeed! And what did you take?' 'His virginity.

It felt like when you desire another person, and are unsure whether they return your feelings and then, finally, confessions are made, and communication takes place. You feel light-headed because your trembling hopes have been released.

The whole program of unemployment insurance, Social Security, was a confession of the failure of our whole social order. And confession of failure of Christian principles: that man, in fact, did not look after his brother.

Flora) "No, Jess- it'll take hours. Just go and see Mr. Powell and fess up. It's the only way. Crawl and grovel and offer to do all sorts of remedial thingies. That's what I do with my dad. And do it with captivating feminine charm. That always works on Dad. I stroke his hair. It never fails." "I can't stroke Mr. Powell's hair, for God's sake!" A horrible hallucination flashed through Jess's mind.

A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a terrible weight.

It was the confession of a saint. -Martin Ladvenu

I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.

I can't dance. There's some things I have to admit I can't do, and dancing is one of them.

...I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon...

Everyone needs a place to be honest.

Leo, I have another secret. I've fallen in love with you." "I've always loved you.

I want you. But I'm scared to say it out loud. And it sucks because I've always been someone who always says things out loud.

ÄŒEŽNJA DogaÄ'a se to u jesenjoj no?i kada pada kestenje po asfaltu i kada se ?uju psi u daljini, i kada se tako neopisivo javlja ?ežnja za nekim tko bi bio dobar, naÅ¡, bliz, intiman, drug, i kome bi mogli da piÅ¡emo pismo. Ispovjedili bismo mu sve Å¡to leži na nama. Pismo bi mu pisali, a njega nema.­ ­

Secrets, they'll tear you apart.

I had told him I was searching for my keys, that's what had taken me so long in the car, and I squeezed him tighter, as if I could crush my little lie.

La confessione che chiama in causa l'ascoltatore è, come diciamo nel cricket, un demonio di palla da giocare. Se la rifiuti offendi chi si confessa, se l'accetti ammetti la tua colpa.

Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.

From these articles of my confession you can imagine others to my discredit. But whatever I make myself out to be, provided that I show myself as I am, I am fulfilling my purpose.

Scientific objectivity is not the absence of initial bias. It is attained by frank confession of it.

You'd better tell me about that lie, Giles, said the old man, massaging his forehead. From all the sin you keep going on about, I'm sure it's going to be spectacular.

Every morning she went to the eight o'clock service at the basilica of Santa María del Mar, and she confessed no less than three times a week, four in warm weather. Don Gustavo, who was a confirmed agnostic (which Bernarda suspected might be a respiratory condition, like asthma, but afflicting only refined gentlemen), deemed it mathematically impossible that the maid should be able to sin sufficiently to keep up that schedule of confession and contrition.

Telling the truth should be kept as a last resort, Daniel, even more so to a nun

Everything can be forgiven, save telling the truth

Don Gustavo, que se declaraba agnóstico (lo cual la Bernarda sospechaba era una afección respiratoria, como el asma, pero de señoritos), opinaba que era matemáticamente imposible que la criada pecase lo suficiente como para mantener semejante ritmo de confesión.