Top 100 To Admit Quotes
#1. I may be the first actress to admit that beauty doesn't hold you back. I think beauty is a gift that you have to make the most of. I've worked hard at trying to look my best.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
#2. Because I have to admit: there's something really badass about truly, honestly not caring what people think about you.
Becky Albertalli
#3. Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#4. To seek proof is to admit doubt, and to obtain proof is to render faith superfluous.
A.W. Tozer
#5. Yes, he had to admit to himself, he liked dating bookish girls who didn't give him any trouble. And he found girls who read a lot had wonderful imaginations too, which certainly didn't hurt in the sack.
Sharon Hamilton
#6. I'm not your proverbial worst nightmare because nightmares aren't real and I am more real than anybody wants to admit.
Jeffery Deaver
#7. Vampires can do whatever they want whenever they want, like fly around all the time. Plus, girls love vampires. Maybe they don't want to admit it, but they do, which is a plus.
Josh Hutcherson
#8. I just want people to admit that there's no one way to live your life.
Sandra Bullock
#9. I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
A. N. Wilson
#10. Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
Dick Cavett
#11. True honesty is what you are willing to admit to yourself without judgement!
Pollyanna Darling
#12. Growing up she had become used to allowing men the ability to curve themselves into question marks around her and hold her desperately as if she were the answer. She had become afraid to admit that she is not.
R. YS Perez
#13. For me hotness was a complicated matter involving brains, humor, and some other things, but all that aside, I was willing to admit Sean Evans was nice to look at.
Ilona Andrews
#14. Then he smiles at me and my heart starts beating harder, which I'm ashamed to admit, but it's true. Hearts betray you like that. This is why it's perfectly acceptable to be cardiophobic, afraid of hearts.
Carrie Jones
#15. We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
Isaac Newton
#16. The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.
Tullian Tchividjian
#17. It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.
L.M. Montgomery
#18. I soon had to admit that what I did by myself couldn't excite me, only what Lila touched became important.
Elena Ferrante
#19. We're all different. We all have our own quirks and flaws and dark secrets. All of us are fucked up on some level, whether or not we want to admit it to ourselves. And I like to believe that not every problem or issue that we deal with in our daily lives must be labelled with a fancy title.
J.A. Redmerski
#20. Be humble to see your mistakes, courageous to admit them, and wise enough to correct them.
Amine A. Ayad
#21. I think being an actor in general is acknowledging that we are constantly playing different roles, that we have all these different parts of ourselves and instead of pretending that you are just one thing, as an actor you get to admit that you've got all this stuff going on.
David Hyde Pierce
#23. I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.
Tom Hanks
#24. No one should be ashamed to admit that they do not know what they do not know, in case while feigning knowledge, they come to deserve to never know.
Augustine Of Hippo
#25. Hope was a pathological part of puberty, like acne and surging hormones. You might sound cynical to the world, but that was just a defense mechanism, cover up coating a zit, because it was too embarrassing to admit that in spite of the bum deals you kept getting you hadn't completely given up.
Jodi Picoult
#26. Del Usion
If you knew the person
He thinks he is
You'd have to admit
He's one very special guy.
Laurence Overmire
#27. There's nothing wrong with the screaming style of singing, and I'll be the first to admit that it conveys an emotion. But I'm getting older, and I can't scream and shout about the same things anymore. The songs I'm writing with Stone Sour call for a lighter, different approach.
Corey Taylor
#28. The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death. But who wants to die?
Jack Kerouac
#29. We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.
Dave Barry
#30. We need each other, deeper than anyone ever dares to admit even to themselves. I think it is a genetic imperative that we huddle together and hold on to each other. There is no question in my mind that there is nothing else in life, really, than friendship.
Patch Adams
#31. As a rule, she didn't like boys very much, but she had to admit, Charlie was actually pretty nice.
Sarah Weeks
#32. People who tend not to report illness are people who are highly competitive and do not want to admit they are not coping.
Cary Cooper
#33. It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves are capable of true love, which is a talent like any other, only far more rare.
Nancy Mitford
#34. To test a man's ego, simply ask him a complicated question. A good person will never be afraid to admit they don't know the answer to something. And only when a man has fully dismantled his ego, can he begin to be truly good.
Suzy Kassem
#35. Nick retreated, afraid to admit he couldn't handle it in front of a bunch
Jennifer Probst
#36. I had to get honest enough to admit it: I relied on food more than I relied on God. I craved food more than I craved God. Food was my comfort. Food was my reward. Food was my joy. Food was what I turned to in times of stress, sadness, and even in times of happiness.
Lysa TerKeurst
#37. You have to admit, his voice gets you wetter than a cucumber in a women's prison
Nicole Reed
#38. I'm not ashamed to admit that I've written some really bad songs and I've had some bad performances.
Lindi Ortega
#39. We fell into silence, both of us keeping our own secrets of what we'd suffered in the other's absence. I wondered if we were trying to protect each other or simply didn't want to admit to our own fears and weaknesses.
Richelle Mead
#40. My hatred notwithstanding, I had to admit Dimitri Beli-whatever was pretty smart
Richelle Mead
#41. I'll have to admit, he really does have quite a smile.Kind of heart-stopping, especially as it comes out of nowhere.
I mean ... you know. If your heart was in the kind of place to be stopped.
Sophie Kinsella
#42. You've got to admit, slick, you got a skill for avoiding the devil."
"That just means that now the devils out there, looking for me...and that devil is very mad.
Mat Johnson
#43. You and I both know a submissive is not a doormat. A dominant cannot be a dominant without consent, and I think you have more need than you're willing to admit." "You're
Elizabeth SaFleur
#44. Witches admitted their relations with the devil. Our blood boils - how could they be forced to admit this when there is no devil. But reason tells us this is not true. The devil does exist and was in fact the inquisitor.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#45. Perhaps it's not theology we're missing, but rather theological integrity. Many have the knowledge but lack the courage to admit the discrepancy between what we know and how we live.
Francis Chan
#46. [L]et us say that we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are forced to tell the truth, we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it.
Michel Foucault
#47. I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a father who said, 'I hate television;' it came into being when he was a kid, and he didn't have it, so he didn't think I needed it.
Robert Knepper
#48. I don't listen well at all. I don't take direction well at all. I have to admit that is my main fault.
Sloane Stephens
#49. I have to admit that many of the relationships I write about are destructive, but that's the yin to the yang of a good relationship. Maybe you have to experience the terrible ones to appreciate the good unions!
Caroline Leavitt
#50. I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.
Nancy Roman
#51. I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.
Charlie Cox
#52. Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance, he's never going to come straight out and say, 'If you own a business you didn't build it.' Alright, maybe he will.
Marco Rubio
#53. Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.
William Jennings Bryan
#54. The idea that women are 'our own worst enemies' forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted too.
Gloria Steinem
#55. I'm starting to think this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#56. We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.
Kanye West
#57. Not even Dee's good influence could keep me from trying to hurt my parents the way they hurt me. At least that's what my court-appointed therapist thinks, and I hate to admit that she's probably right.
I also hate to admit that she's court-appointed.
Emery Lord
#58. To ignore your own ignorance is to admit
that you were the biggest fool you never were.
P. Hermans
August 13, 2016
Netherlands
Petra Hermans
#59. Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes.
Derek Bok
#60. My life's a mess. I'm not afraid to admit it.
Nick Diaz
#61. I have to admit I didn't do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we're getting it done. It's not where you've been but where you're going.
Marion Barry
#62. A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between its desire and the realisation of its desire.
Gustave Le Bon
#63. I am ashamed to admit that I have contemplated living versus ending it all.
J.L. Mac
#64. There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe
#65. I am the first to admit I have made a couple of mistakes: two trips to rehab, Rudebox, the album, Geri Halliwell. I should have gone for Victoria, really, shouldn't I? I'd have been really famous.
Robbie Williams
#66. It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are.
Lisa Kleypas
#67. And I, a vampire who had seduced countless mortals in his impossibly long existence, was forced to admit that it was she, this beautiful young human female, who had instead seduced me.
Krisi Keley
#68. Geographically speaking, you can't get to where you want to be unless you know where you are the begin with. You need a reference point. Similarly, you can't get to where you want to be in life until you are willing to admit where you are to begin with. Self-deception makes that next to impossible.
Andy Stanley
#69. Great leaders get people to admit the truth because they know that dreams are buried under the lies they tell themselves, in order to feel okay with giving up.
Shannon L. Alder
#70. We want a revival to come just in our way. You never saw two revivals come just alike. We must let them come in God's way. People are ashamed to admit they need a revival.
Mordecai
#71. The exhibition gobsmacked me. I'm not ashamed to admit it. Here was quite a small building, not many people about, getting little attention. And inside they'd pulled together a staggering display of Regency furniture. I've seen most of the stuff that matters. I simply stood there, gaping.
Jonathan Gash
#72. I hate to admit this, but I've never actually hit anyone. I don't even kill wasps or spiders. I'm pretty veggie as well. In fact, really, I'm New Age.
Richard Desmond
#73. I'd been to the British museum before. In fact I've been in more museums than I like to admit - it makes me sound like a total geek.
[That's Sadie in the background, yelling I am a total geek. Thanks, Sis.]
Rick Riordan
#75. And for you to be my wife is all I want in the world. I love you. I was afraid to admit it for a long time, but I know it now.
Kiera Cass
#76. Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain't right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I'm walking alone.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#77. To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and sets the stage for learning and progress in any endeavor.
Epictetus
#78. The best way to be superhuman is to do things that you love with other people who love them, too. The only way to do that is to admit you're doing it because you love it and if you do more than everyone, you're still only doing that because that's what you choose.
Cory Doctorow
#79. We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.
Henry Miller
#80. We didn't want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.
Shannon Celebi
#81. A mother who is afraid to admit that she resents her children may interfere so much in their lives, under the pretect of being concerned about their welfare and safety, that her over-protection is really a form of punishment.
Calvin Springer Hall
#82. I have to admit, if Oprah were a man, I would marry her.
Gayle King
#83. Me - not wanting to admit that I just let him use me again.
Him - not wanting to admit that it was more than just sex.
Both of us lying to ourselves.
Colleen Hoover
#84. All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.
H.L. Mencken
#85. People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.
Ernest Gellner
#86. To err is human. To admit it, a blunder.
Various
#87. There is a place within each of us where we cannot hide from the truth, where virtue sits as judge. To admit the truth of our actions is to go before that court, where process is irrelevant. Good and evil are intents, and intent is without excuse.
R.A. Salvatore
#88. To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.
David Whyte
#89. To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a people.
Haki R. Madhubuti
#90. Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They never ascribe their failures and frustrations to the violation of economic law.
Ludwig Von Mises
#91. when at last they'd had to admit to themselves that they'd made all the love they could, had been a last meal. Like
Alan Furst
#92. We are spiritual beings whether we want to admit it or not, and inherent in our DNA is a design to return us home - home to our true essence, our greatest self, our limitless self.
Debbie Ford
#93. I want you to admit just once what you feel
for me. I want to know if you'll miss me even
a little. If you'll remember me. If you're sorry
for anything.
Lisa Kleypas
#94. I assume that, as usual, he is asking this question rhetorically, so I say nothing so he'll go on ranting, because as painful as it is for me to admit, there is something kind of wonderful about Tiny's ranting, particularly on a quiet street when I am still half asleep.
John Green
#95. I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.
Clarence Thomas
#96. The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
James Madison
#97. I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches.
Alexander McQueen
#98. I have to admit: I have been known to be obsessively neat and like things arranged 'just so.'
David Alan Basche
#99. They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system. And that they are guilty of railroading people into jail. They don't want to, or never will, admit these things.
Leonard Peltier
#100. Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us.
Aldo Leopold
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