Unadmitted Quotes

#1. Our favorite people and our favorite stories become so not by any inherent virtue, but because they illustrate something deep in the grain, something unadmitted.

Joan Didion

#2. There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

Alan Watts

#3. Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most important part; beneath these faces, these clothes, accents, rudenesses, was power and sorrow, both unadmitted, unrealized, the power of inventors, the sorrow of the disconnected.

James Baldwin

#4. All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

Lin Yutang

#5. In other cases of unadmitted bias, I had used the time-honored movement tactic of reversing the race or sex or ethnicity or sexuality involved, then seeing if the response would be the same.

Gloria Steinem

#6. The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is like a soul, and that every soul should have its own body.

Adam Kirsch

#7. The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece. Such imperfections are your guides - valuable, objective, non-judgmental guides to matters you need to reconsider or develop further.

David Bayles

#8. My eclectic taste allows me to do something unique and not box myself in.

Hoodie Allen

#9. If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.

J.C. Ryle

#10. If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is 'The Brothers Karamazov.'

Charlie Trotter

#11. If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.

Jack Kevorkian

#12. Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. Love is in your heart. If you search deeply you will find it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. God makes no difference in His love to His children. A child is a child to Him;

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#15. To pray well is the better half of study.

Martin Luther

#16. For the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have.

Henry David Thoreau