Admit Quotes

I do admit there have been times when I have made a statement that was incorrect.

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.

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.

I freely admit that I am a bit of a misfit.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Well, I would never admit to copying Karl Rove's play book, but there's no doubt that what the Bush people did in 2004 was impressive. They had neighbors talking to neighbors. They did a remarkable job increasing Republican turnout in states like Ohio and Florida.

The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.

I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.

It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.

One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.