Quotes About Admitting

#1. The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.

Alan Greenspan

#2. there is more strength
in admitting vulnerability
than in faking invincibility

Rick Julian

#3. Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?

Robert Walpole

#4. What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?

Jules Verne

#5. In reality, I did desperately need help. However, I couldn't accept help, because that would mean admitting that I had a problem.

Jacob Reimer

#6. Part of your process of becoming an adult is admitting to yourself that The Doors were a shitty band.

Moshe Kasher

#7. By admitting a new perception of space and giving it an active sense, is it not possible to discover a new unexpected, unexplored world?

Toru Takemitsu

#8. For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.

Sheryl Sandberg

#9. Understanding and accepting diversity enables us to see that each of us is needed.. It also enables us to begin to think about being abandoned to the strengths of others, of admitting that we cannot know or do everything.

Max De Pree

#10. This is the hard part. Knowing and admitting a problem are not the same as solving it. But executing a solution is also the fun part, because the solution save you and gets you moving again.

Twyla Tharp

#11. I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

Ira Glass

#12. Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves, in place of the evidence of your senses and the conviction of your understanding.

Frances Wright

#13. Admitting you had a problem was the first step - everyone knew that - but admitting you had a problem also left you open to the possibility that maybe you couldn't fix it

Jennifer Weiner

#14. Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.

Bill Brandt

#15. The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you ... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.

Hanna Rosin

#16. Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#17. Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.

Criss Jami

#18. What are you looking for? My attention? Because you've got it. You had it when you walked into EE."
Tom narrowed his eyes, couldn't believe Prophet was admitting it. "Same."
"Okay then.

S.E. Jakes

#19. Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

Narendra Modi

#20. We've reached the point where a Rhodes Scholar like Florida State's Joe O'Shea - a philosophy major, no less - is comfortable admitting not only that he doesn't read books but that he doesn't see any particular need to read them.

Nicholas Carr

#21. I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

Abraham Lincoln

#22. Like David we have a number of self-destructive options we use to avoid repenting and admitting sin. I'll list them and let you come up with personal examples for each: deny, avoid, blame shift, rationalize, and give excuses. If you can't think of how you've used these, you may be stuck in denial!

James MacDonald

#23. The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.

Leo Tolstoy

#24. If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.

Anne Lamott

#25. There's a reason narcissists don't learn from mistakes and that's because they never get past the first step which is admitting that they made one. It's always an assistant's fault, an adviser's fault, a lawyer's fault. Ask them to account for a mistake any other way and they'll say, 'what mistake?

Jeffrey Kluger

#26. So I'm scared, because you're not just not human, you're not like anyone ... there's nobody like you in all the world and it's you I want. I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.

Holly Black

#27. I have to admit that trying to force me into admitting I love you is pretty low, and such an uncommon trait for someone who claims to be a submissive.

Johnny Stone

#28. Woman! Come out! I have - " She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. "I have come to rescue you," she finally said, as if admitting that she were covered in boils.

Catherynne M Valente

#29. There are things you may know in your heart for a long while without admitting them to conscious awareness, until, unexpectedly, something triggers an inescapable realization.

Sonia Sotomayor

#30. Admitting we are not God - not in control, not running anything, not responsible for everyone's well-being, not the solution for everything and everyone, not at the center of all things - doesn't belittle us; it frees us.

Louie Giglio

#31. When most people said "I'm psychic, you see," they meant "I have an overactive but unoriginal imagination/wear black nail varnish/talk to my budgie;" when Anathema said it, it sounded as though she was admitting to a hereditary disease which she'd much prefer not to have.

Neil Gaiman

#32. Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.

Alfredo Kraus

#33. More than any other form of entertainment, video games tend to divide rooms into Us and Them. We are, in effect, admitting that we like to spend our time shooting monsters, and They are, not unreasonably, failing to find the value in that.

Tom Bissell

#34. Seeking means admitting that you do not know. Once you have cleared your slate, truth can imprint itself upon it.

Jaggi Vasudev

#35. I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting you have nothing new to offer. As long as I can keep making music I'm happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to hear it, I'll carry on.

Gary Numan

#36. Kipling is a jingo imperialist, he is morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting. It is better to start by admitting that, and then to try to find out why it is that he survives while the refined people who have sniggered at him seem to wear so badly.

George Orwell

#37. Rationalism is an attitude of readiness to listen to contrary arguments and to learn from experience ... of admitting that "I may be wrong and you may be right and, by an effort, we may get nearer the truth."

Karl Popper

#38. The approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off; humbly admitting mistakes disarms.

Philip Yancey

#39. Try refusing the arrangement, or later petition for divorce
the first is impossible while the second is like admitting you're a whore.

Euripides

#40. Love is daily admitting to yourself, your spouse, and God that you are not able to love this way without God's protecting, providing, forgiving, rescuing, and delivering grace.

Paul David Tripp

#41. Everyone reads Harper Lee personally. For me, 'Mockingbird' was about admitting my own hyphenated identity - about loving and hating my world, about both belonging and not belonging to the community I came from.

Margaret Stohl

#42. One of the main ways in which I get attacked is by being called a conspiracy theorist by the right and the other main attack is actually from the conspiracy theorists who are really pissed at me for not admitting that 9/11 was an inside job.

Naomi Klein

#43. I'm not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity.

George Soros

#44. I am in favor of admitting any territory into the Union of States as soon as it has fulfilled the requirements of the Constitution and shall petition for admission.

Ambrose Burnside

#45. It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#46. Aggies have a really interesting way of admitting defeat. We've never been outscored. We just ran out of time.

Rick Perry

#47. The first step to getting good is admitting that you aren't (yet).

Seth Godin

#48. Rather than admitting you don't know what to do next, you fake it in public and feel lost when you're alone.

Emily P. Freeman

#49. Yes..." I gasped, shocked that I was admitting it. Brianna had caught me with my todger in the cookie jar and I just couldn't deny it, I was overwhelmed with excitement and pure animalistic arousal.

John Key

#50. I love you, Im Meahri. I'm sorry because you suffered alone. For admitting it so late, I am sorry. You aren't going anywhere now. I am not letting you go anywhere.

Yoon Sang-hyun

#51. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second; and so on till death.

Helen Hunt Jackson

#52. Everyone doubts themselves. It's just a matter of admitting it or not.

Henry Cavill

#53. For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.

Rachel Sklar

#54. Scillara was not cruel; she was simply not interested and he did not hold this against her. It seemed to him that frankly most people by temperament and character should not be thrust into the role of parents. She was simply uncharacteristic in admitting it. He

Ian C. Esslemont

#55. How pride had kept them from admitting their mistakes - and

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#56. What are you most scared of?" she asked and I wished she hadn't. I didn't like admitting it.
"I'm scared of dying alone.

Kenya Wright

#57. So let's stop saying that poor people are irresponsible parents and start admitting that society doesn't seem to believe that if you are poor you are entitled to be a parent at all. Given

Linda Tirado

#58. Our biggest success lies in admitting to our failures and correcting them..A side of success people often miss..
Deal with this in the mental personal space..
Fast forward your momentum and thereby success..

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#59. If he sacrifices his legs, he will be admitting to Dr. Traylor that he has won; he will be surrendering to him, to that night in the field with the

Hanya Yanagihara

#60. Admitting that Katie had taken too much blood was on par with saying an adult human had pooped their pants or eaten their own boogers!

Faith Hunter

#61. One thing is for sure: most of the people admitting candidates to universities for technical subjects are pretty dissatisfied with the level of math education.

Conrad Wolfram

#62. Usually step one in a recovery is admitting that you have a problem. I think that's an important thing for the Republican Party to do.

Andrea Tantaros

#63. When you're young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can't make up their minds. Perhaps it's a way of admitting that things can't ever bear the same certainty again.

Julian Barnes

#64. There's just something terrifying about admitting you like someone. In a way, it's actually easier when there's no chance of anything happening. But there's this threshold where things suddenly become possible. And then your cards are on the table. And there you are, wanting, right out in the open.

Becky Albertalli

#65. There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.

Greg McKeown

#66. The rational approach start from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it prefers pejorative, and even wrong, answers to admitting its own lack of understanding.

Jeremy Narby

#67. One of the biggest and most pleasant surprises is that, even when you have that need to keep up an appearance of being right or knowing, there is life after admitting you don't know and that's beautiful.

Ben Lee

#68. but the very content that comes from finding yourself is overshadowed by the knowledge that by doing so you are admitting you are not only a grotesque, but a special kind of grotesque.

Sylvia Plath

#69. Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.

Christina Baldwin

#70. Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness.

Franny Billingsley

#71. One of the few things the Air Force did admit to me existed out there presently without admitting that it was Area 51 is this drone called the 'Beast of Kandahar' which does not fire missiles, unlike the Predator and the Reaper, but just conducts surveillance.

Annie Jacobsen

#72. Admitting your fears to yourself is the first step in cleansing them from your body. And it's the hardest part.

Brenda Rothert

#73. And how I hated the term, politically incorrect, hated the shield it gave racists who got to label themselves politically incorrect, instead of admitting what they really were. Even to themselves.

Ted Kosmatka

#74. [P]art of the pleasure of engaging with a writer is unraveling some allusions and admitting defeat by others.

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

#75. Admitting your mistakes makes you humble. But not repeating your mistakes makes you clever.

Sarvesh Jain

#76. Sometimes I do what I say I'm going to do, but more often I don't. It's a failing. The least of my failings, and the only one I feel up to admitting at the moment.

Helen Oyeyemi

#77. There is an affinity between falling asleep and dying that cannot be ignored. In fact, the word sleep is commonly used as a euphemism for "death"; we speak of putting a pet to sleep, rather than admitting we have asked a veterinarian to (kindly) kill him or her.

Anonymous

#78. Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless.

David Whyte

#79. [Economics] is all about observing the world with genuine curiosity and admitting that it is full of mysteries

Steven E. Landsburg

#80. There's a difference between immaturity and not being ready, and there's a certain maturity in admitting that you're not ready.

Aprille Legacy

#81. Show me any health professional - great and not so great - who says they don't make mistakes or haven't made one in years, and I'll show you someone who has trouble admitting the truth.

Brian Goldman

#82. The old woman went to Mass every morning. "Don't you believe in God? she asked him. On Rambert's admitting he did not, she said again that "that explained it." "Yes," she added, "you're right. You must go back to her. Or else
what would be left of you?

Albert Camus

#83. It's been said that I have a problem admitting when I'm wrong. The main reason is because I never am.

Shamara Ray

#84. For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

Jonathan Carroll

#85. I'd rather be surround by people who make mistakes and have no problem admitting to them and learning from them than be surrounded by people who think they make none.

Tanya Masse

#86. I think being born in Panama was a blessing because Panama is a port city. It's a really - the mentality is that - I remember that of admitting things in. You know, ports, ideas come in and out all the time.

Ruben Blades

#87. A man can build a staunch reputation for honesty by admitting he was in error, especially when he gets caught at it.

Robert Ruark

#88. I want to be good to you." He rolls me to face him, and kisses me once before admitting, "I'm just fucking wild for you."
"I think I spotted that just now," I whisper.
"I mean," he clarifies, "the I love you kind of wild.

Christina Lauren

#89. The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others.

C.S. Lewis

#90. We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps

Charles Darwin

#91. What are you - Secret Service?'
'If I were, I wouldn't admit it.'
'And you're not admitting it, I notice.

Robert Goddard

#92. It was a damned good thing men couldn't have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that the
human race would have died out generations earlier.

Julia Quinn

#93. I would advise women not to be shy about admitting they've had Botox - it just shows you want to look your best, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Trinny Woodall

#94. Wait a second, is a snooty book critic actually admitting to judging books by their covers?

Larry Correia

#95. Maybe that's the mark of a real leader. Admitting a mistake has been made and finding a way to stop it at all costs.

Joelle Charbonneau

#96. When a guest blogger can't even be bothered sharing their own post on their social networks; they're pretty much admitting 'I don't care about this post, and I don't want to be associated with it'. In the end these guests posts are just another form of spam.

George Stevens

#97. Few things accelerate the peace process as much as humbly admitting our own wrongdoing and asking forgiveness.

Lee Strobel

#98. Bailey went quiet, her expression softening. "You're right," she finally said. "It wouldn't have been smart."
"Well, fuck me -- are you actually admitting that I was right about something?"
"It's like an eclipse," she muttered. "Happens every so often.

Elle Kennedy

#99. What takes more courage - doing what's normal and being miserable, or admitting what you need in order to be happy?

Susannah Sandlin

#100. The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.

Michael Hastings