Just Admit Quotes

#1. It was easier to make excuses, to look for reasons and flaws, than to just admit the simple truth.

Romina Russell

#2. I can't think of one person who is on TV who isn't vain. It's the nature of the beast. If you are on TV then you have a vanity, for sure. Just admit it! Why not?

Simon Cowell

#3. It's a shame we can't just admit that we failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#4. If you want to wallow in self pity, then do so. Just admit that you are where you want to be. Don't be blaming everyone else for you being there because you are tough enough to crawl out of it.

Carolyn Brown

#5. Maybe you should just admit that you're crazy about me," he said, leaning in to kiss her again.
"And why would you want me to do that?" she asked, still smiling.
"Because I'm playing for keeps, my little grasshopper.

R.L. Mathewson

#6. You cannot change the minds of the mindless. But that doesn't mean you just admit that's the way we have to live.

Fergus McCann

#7. My God, woman. Your aura is glowing. Just admit you like him, bump uglies, and get on with your life!

Kim Harrison

#8. There are so many people in the closet, and we are giving them an opportunity to come out of the closet and just admit they like to smoke.

Snoop Dogg

#9. You like him, Rose. Why don't you just admit that, at least to me?

Louise Rozett

#10. Why don't you just admit that you wanted to belong to him? Why don't you admit that part of you still does?

Leigh Bardugo

#11. You have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. And I don't mind if you're not scientifically literate, but just admit that to yourself, so that you'll know, and perhaps you can take a first step to try to eradicate that.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#12. The idea of the Internet as sort of open and democratic and free and with no hierarchy, the libertarian beginnings as it were, with peer-to-peer networks ... I'd sort of like for everyone to just admit that we're beyond that now.

Beeban Kidron

#13. I don't mind sharing the blame if she'll just admit she started it.

Matt Groening

#14. If you don't laugh reading this book I'll eat my pocket protector. Wait, did I just admit I had a pocket protector?

Nicole Fende

#15. Just admit it, Elena. You're attracted to Damon and all his bad boy glory- Caroline Forbes

L.J.Smith

#16. Did not just admit that I loved him. Please God, let him think I said something else - anything else. Like maybe I dove you. That was better.

J. Lynn

#17. The only way to get what you want is to admit you don't really know what you want. But in the end, or course, you never truly get what you want. So just enjoy the ride.

Gregor Collins

#18. If we take seriously the idea that all objects recede interminably into themselves, then human perception becomes just one among many ways that objects might relate. To put things at the center of a new metaphysics also requires us to admit that they do not exist just for us. The Computer

Ian Bogost

#19. Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

Julia Cameron

#20. I ain't the only old woman looking. I'm just the only one honest enough to admit it. The others just hire the boy to cut their grass so they can sit at the window and drool.

Abbi Glines

#21. And, of course, liberals see no problem with using the government to impose their cultural beliefs on others; they just won't admit that's what they're doing.

Jonah Goldberg

#22. I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has just landed on a new planet and insists on giving guided tours to its inhabitants.

Etgar Keret

#23. Addiction is such an isolating incident in your life. You feel alone. And when you admit, when you come into a fellowship and people just surround you and say, "We will help you, that you're not alone, that we've been through it before, and you will get through it," just gives you such great hope.

Michael Botticelli

#24. I will admit that I just want an excuse to put all my favorite people in a room together.

Robin Sloan

#25. I'm embarrassed to admit that I'm still scared of the dark. I have to have a light on all night. It's completely irrational, and my son is the same. I just hate the dark.

Louise Nurding

#26. We have a bad image in the world, I've got to admit. I just want people to think twice about Colombia. Don't go by the first impression.

Camilo Villegas

#27. I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.

Joseph Hume

#28. It just be life, that's all. Ain't nothin' happened to you, ain't happened to most women whether they care to admit it or not. You strong, Babygirl. You a woman. You gotta be.

Marilyn Fullen-Collins

#29. Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever

Anthony Bourdain

#30. I never had any friends beyond a certain superficial level. We hate to admit weaknesses. We were raised to want to get ahead, to be good and clever and successful. You're just ashamed to open up.

Lawrence Kudlow

#31. I had to admit he looked nice. He has very regular features and straight teeth. I'd just read that even, regular features are universally recognized as beautiful. So no matter what I think of Brooks as a person, I'm genetically programmed to find him attractive. I resent that.

Natalie Standiford

#32. All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory. Am I wrong? Am I way off base? Because I want you to set me straight if you think I'm wrong. I want to know. I mean, I don't know anything, and I'm the first one to admit it.

Raymond Carver

#33. Ew, sicko. I was practicing Edomic."
"Sure you were," Jason said. "You're just too embarrassed to admit you were playing hide-and-seek all alone. Rachel hiding, nobody seeking.

Brandon Mull

#34. I have to admit that I'm feeling a little anxious these days. We've all been lied to so much. There's just all this uncertainty we're facing ...
I mean, what if the hokey-pokey ISN'T what it's all about?

Vernon Crumrine

#35. We are all future butterflies who think, wrongly, that we are just slugs. And we are evolving, whether we admit it or not, into something else. Something with wings.

Jeffrey J. Kripal

#36. I just hadn't wanted to admit it, because admitting it meant acknowledging the possibility that the odds might be in my favor. And that possibility was terrifying.

Robyn Schneider

#37. Not that I don't think irreverent humor and someone being filthy is funny, I just do what I do. Any comedian would admit throwing an f-bomb in there would help get a reaction ... I'm not on a Puritanical pursuit, but when I would curse in a joke, I believe I'm not done writing it.

Jim Gaffigan

#38. I'm not afraid of flying; I just fear I'm going to die. I think I'm - vulnerable. I admit it. I don't fly. I got claustrophobia. I don't go in high buildings. I don't do those things. I'm just myself, whatever that is.

John Madden

#39. If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

Stephen Colbert

#40. You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. I think that you have to find something else. I don't know what it is. Is it yoga or God or politics? For me it's just family.

Kevin Bacon

#41. I was a fuckhead for suggesting it, but I wasn't quite ready to leave her all alone yet. As much as I didn't want to admit it, I just wanted a little more time while she sorta kinda needed me.

Sibylla Matilde

#42. She'd seen what was between his legs and she wasn't ashamed to admit she wanted to see it again. More than just see it. Touch and taste would be a good start.

Katie Reus

#43. Just because you are embarrassed to admit that you're still living the consequences of bad decisions made 5, 10, 20 years ago shouldn't stop you from making good decisions now. If you let pride stop you, you will hate life 5, 10, and 20 years from now for the same reasons.

Tim Ferriss

#44. Apparently, after 20 minutes of waterboarding, not only will you admit allegiance to Osama bin Laden, you'll gladly die just to have relief.

Kenneth Eade

#45. admit Mary into the new mysteries she had just

Anonymous

#46. There are certain people in our popular culture that just capture people's imaginations. And in death, they become even larger. Now, I have to admit that it's also fed by a 24/7 media that is insatiable.

Barack Obama

#47. One must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in it;or acknowledge that you are enjoying unjust privileges, as i do, and then enjoy them and be satisfied.

Leo Tolstoy

#48. People ask me all the time why I write. I do realize that one day I will have to answer this question, most likely in front of a large crowd. But how do you tell the truth when you struggle just to write it? How do you admit that the words are just salve to the things you are too afraid to say?

Kacey Vanderkarr

#49. But when I want to draw close to someone, and fully commit myself, then my misery is assured. Then I am nothing, and what can I do with nothingness? I must admit that your letter this morning (by the afternoon it had changed) arrived at just the right moment; I was in need of those very words.

Franz Kafka

#50. Just the sound of his voice twists my stomach into a knot of unpleasant emotions like guilt, sadness and fear. And longing. I might as well admit there's some of that too.

Suzanne Collins

#51. It's just easier to feel guilty than to admit that some things our out of our control.

Kate Perry

#52. Kay wasn't looking for true love. It was embarrassing to admit, but she wasn't completely over her divorce. She just wanted an opportunity to take her social skills out for a spin every now and then. She needed to be sure Kay The Person, hadn't been completely overtaken by Kay The Mom.

Delora Dennis

#53. And yet, despite everything I just shared, I still couldn't admit to another person that I am lonely.

Kath C. Eustaquio-Derla

#54. I already knew the answer to that. I was just too afraid to admit it.

K. Langston

#55. You just don't want to admit that you're in the beginning stages of a bromance to end all bromances."
I snorted. "Whatever.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#56. We didn't evolve; God made us. So I just want to explain to you exactly how that happened ... Some of the things you'll hear do sound a little bit far-fetched. I admit that. Then I found out that the other name for The Bible is The Gospel, so it is all true. Luckily, the clue is in the title.

Ricky Gervais

#57. I don't believe everything happens for a reason. But I still search for reasons anyway. It's like I don't want to admit that maybe everything really is totally random ... that people are just molecules in the air, bumping into each other and floating away again.
-p150, NOTES TO SELF

Avery Sawyer

#58. I picked up the nearest weapon I could lay my hands on: a stapler. I lifted it, going for "menacing." I admit it lacked a certain elegance, but hey. It was worth a shot. David placed his hand on my arm and pushed it back down.
"What?"
"Just ... that's embarrassing for all of us," he replied.

Rachel Hawkins

#59. Lieutenant Governor Paterson - blind, black guy - gets sworn in. First thing he says is, 'By the way, cheated on my wife. Let's just get that out in the open right now.' He didn't need to admit that. He's blind. Could have said it was an accident.

Greg Fitzsimmons

#60. Do I have permission to take control of you first? Just your bodies, not your minds."
"I've been waiting for you to admit you wanted my body.

Marissa Meyer

#61. I don't say what I'm thinking. I don't tell him how lucky he is, that he can just sit there and admit it, sheepish, but unashamed. Like it's his right. Like it's okay, because she's supposed to belong to someone like him, instead of someone like me.

Tess Sharpe

#62. Somewhere along the line you're going to have to admit that you have feelings for me. I know you do ... it just seems like you don't know it yet.

Joanne McClean

#63. If every time you call him you simply get his voice mail, and every time he calls you he wants to come over and "chill" at your place
admit it; you're just a jump-off.

Karen E. Quinones Miller

#64. As much as I hated to admit it, Ami was right. Rule number two of lying is to make it as airtight as possible. Which just goes back to rule number one: never get caught.

Alicia Thompson

#65. I know what I heard, Ms. Polanski," he said firmly, those lovely lips of his thinning with discontent. "You won't admit it, but I heard you think the word vampire." "Maybe that's because you're just like one, Detective. Because as of right now, you're sucking the life out of me.

Dakota Cassidy

#66. I just tell people what they already know, but are afraid to admit to themselves.

Nicholas Sparks

#67. He'd never admit it, but he counted Dex among his family. Sort of like the annoying brother-in-law. You're happy he's making your bro happy, but damn, sometimes you just wanted to punch him in his stupid smiley face. Who the hell smiled that much, anyway? A crazy person, that's who.

Charlie Cochet

#68. Musicians are affected by the audience just as much as audiences are affected by the musicians. The only problem is that often times musicians won't allow themselves to admit to that fact.

Hamid Drake

#69. This said, we couldn't get by without light. Light wipes away our tears, and when we're bathed in light, we're happy. Perhaps we just love how its particles pour down on us. Light particles somehow console us. I admit this is something I can't quite explain using logic.

Naoki Higashida

#70. You have a dark heart in you, Valentine's daughter," he said. "You just won't admit it. And if you want Jace, you had better accept it. Because he belongs to me now.

Cassandra Clare

#71. I'll admit,I may have carried a torch for him all these years.He just blew it out.

Jennifer Echols

#72. Yehya would never admit that he was just a single, powerless man in a society where rules and restrictions were stronger than everything else, stronger than the ruler himself, stronger

Basma Abdel Aziz

#73. Unfortunately, upsetting the balance of nature just happens to be what our species has been selected to do well- although we hate admit it. Like the Walrus in Lewis Carroll's poem, we shed hypocritical tears over the diminishing supply of oysters, while gulping them down as quickly as ever.

Christopher Wills

#74. I'm sorry if humans mistreated your people in the past, but if we don't join together now, it's time to admit that we're all just keeping busy while we wait for the Earth to die.

Andy Goldman

#75. The truth of scientific research, just like the truth behind many equally complex areas of study, is that the people behind them are far more human than we tend to admit.

Anonymous

#76. Fortunately, there was government by consent of the governed in America - but just as unfortunately, such governments dearly hate to admit a mistake.

T.R. Fehrenbach

#77. We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.

Hunter S. Thompson

#78. Admit you're jealous, Emma."
"Never," she said defiantly.
"Just your nipples then. They're pouting.

Kate Meader

#79. I know that makes me sound like a jerk and maybe in some way I was, but girls play games too. Guys are just more likely to admit to it.

Nyrae Dawn

#80. I admit to having worn suede and leather pants myself for a while, but you just never feel clean, and it's degenerate, anyway, to wear animal skins ... So I went back to bluejeans after my degenerate period.

Andy Warhol

#81. I'll be the first to admit that I have no experience with relationships. But it just seems logical ... a man and woman have to be somewhat equal ... as in, one of them can't always be swooping in and saving the other one. They have to save each other equally.

Stephanie Meyer

#82. I admit that I haven't read everything in my library, but I feel smarter just walking in it!

Jim Rohn

#83. The human capacity for grief. It just isn't capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn't just level off - it just gives up, resets itself to zero. Admit it. None of us feel a damn about these people.

Alastair Reynolds

#84. The way some women change fashion regularly, I change personalities. What persona feels good, what's coveted, what's au courant? I think most people do this, they just don't admit it, or else they settle on one persona because they're too lazy or stupid to pull off a switch.

Gillian Flynn

#85. Also, you may not have noticed, but this is a cupboard."
"I admit that our private office is of modest dimensions," Kami told him, "But that's the way we like it. Just because we're editors doesn't mean we need special privileges. We're not snobs.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#86. I would be the first to admit that I have incredibly high, ambitious standards for my life and my career, and I've had those my entire life. It's something that was just instilled in me by my parents.

Mindy Kaling

#87. I love travelling, but I have to admit I didn't initially take to Agra in India. As soon as you arrive, someone wants to show you around, take your bags or sell you something - and it's just a bit of a culture shock. You just have to make the necessary mental adjustment to the setting.

Dexter Fletcher

#88. There is no such thing as defeat except when it comes from within. As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated-he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting.

Darrell Royal

#89. I have cellulite. I admit it. But sometimes I just say, 'Screw it, I am going to wear a bikini.'

Cindy Crawford

#90. If I were being honest with myself, he lit a blaze, not just a blush, but that's too much reality for me to admit.

S.L. Scott

#91. And what does he want?" I turn and face the serving girl. "The same thing we all want. He just won't admit it." I see longing in her eyes, and also anger, when she looks at Aladdin. "Freedom from the past." I

Jessica Khoury

#92. I love Nicki Minaj, I told her I'd admit it, I hope one day we get married just to say we f-cking did it and girl I'm f-cking serious, I'm with it if you with it, cause your verses turn me on and your pants are mighty fitted

Drake

#93. If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to admit we enjoy our tears just as much as we enjoy our laughter. The only moments of life that are a bore are when we don't care one way or another.

Vincent Price

#94. She lowered her voice as if she were sharing a secret. I think you do like Archer, and you just don't want to admit that you're in the beginning stages of a bromance to end all bromances.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#95. We all have issues we're trying to overcome, Miss Tate. Everyone wants to feel special, whether we admit it or not. And loving without limits and allowing ourselves to be loved in return is what life's all about. Or at least, what it should be about. Everything else just gets in the way.

Leisa Rayven

#96. Lawrence says, "I have an old maiden aunt too, and her place smells just like this. What [i] is [/i] that smell, anyway?"
"Age and desperation?" I suggest.
"Bitterness and despair?" Vanessa says.
"Baked fish?" says Harry.
"She does like tilapia," I admit.

Claire LaZebnik

#97. The noble things and the just things, which the political art examines, admit of much dispute and variability, such that they are held to exist by law11 alone and not by nature.

Aristotle.

#98. I have dogs, and it's no secret that I find reptiles interesting, but the thing about reptiles is that they really just wanna be left alone, and I understand them. It's, 'Don't pick me up, stop holding me, don't look at me, just leave me alone.' I have to admit, sometimes I feel like that.

Nicolas Cage

#99. And just because you didn't admit it, you were stupid for each other from almost day one. So even though you've been dating for a couple of weeks, you've been each other's person for a lot longer. - Sara

Rebecca Donovan

#100. We need encouragement, not sermonizing, and we need clear-eyed acknowledgement of the situation, not a sanctified gloss that pushes us toward saying, 'I see I must not admit my pain because, after all, I'm a Christian. I'll just have to cover it up.

David Jeremiah