Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Larkin

If you can prove a guy did cheat, then I don't believe he belongs. I don't believe that there are any guys that did cheat, in that respect, that are in the Hall of Fame. So I think opening up the doors to guys that admittedly cheated or are proven that they did cheat, it kills the integrity of what the Hall of Fame stands for.

Jane Campion

'The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that has a proper story, and it was a big struggle for me to write. It meant I had to admit the power of narrative.

P. J. O'Rourke

There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring.

There are, admittedly a lot of moving parts. But we're confident it will also come together.

Blaise Pascal

Two extremes: to exclude reason, to admit reason only.

To admit there is no god is to provide free license to pillage and rape with clear conscience.

David Whyte

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.

We find ourselves in situations where we are imposing minimums. Yes, I admit it, it's minimums. Can staff on its own impose a higher standard? No, we cannot do that.

There have been some problems because we're doing this for the first time. We admit we're not as systematic as the military. Remember, we're guerrillas.

Rita Ora

Women love an honest man. An honest man that isn't afraid to say, 'Men get hurt too.' And a lot of men don't admit that.

Why are men so secretive, why are they afraid of the truth, sometimes even of themselves? Why don't they want to admit that they would want to love with their entire being because this is everything that remains out of this vanity called Life?

To me the number of disappearances plus the number of sexual assaults they admit to is alarming. The only way they're going to change is by Congress regulating them.

Cynthia Ozick

To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burned a hole in what we take to be modernism - even in what we take to be the ordinary fabric and intent of language. Nothing is like 'The Hunger Artist.' Nothing is like 'The Metamorphosis.'

Torture is practiced systematically by the security forces, ... This was admitted by high officials of both the army and police.

Helen Garner

While I was writing 'The Spare Room,' I thought, 'I'm going to look really bad in this book - there's no redeeming this kind of awful, ugly emotion', and I thought, 'I'm not going to change it. I'll call the character 'Helen' and admit to those feelings.' I think this is a reason why people write.

George Vecsey

Lance Armstrong has joined the legion of the lost, the great athletes who were barred or exiled for sins admitted or charged or suspected.

Benjamin Tucker

The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.

Francoise Gilot

To change your mind about something is always difficult. I think that people who are big enough to admit they were wrong can be counted on your fingers.

Luke Scott

We have good security. It's hard to get in here. Barring a tactical entry where terrorists come in and hold us hostage, that's about the only thing that could possibly warrant me carrying a gun in the clubhouse. That's highly unlikely, and I admit that. But my personal belief is I don't want to suffer from the poor choices of others.

Edgar Mitchell

My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my home, I'm not very democratic. I think of myself as a benevolent dictator.

Tove Lo

When people like your music because it has vulnerable honesty, and you're able to comfortably admit to flaws and imperfections, then that's the most liberating thing about being an artist.

David Williams

We would like to see zero fuel duties, of course. But we have to put our hands on our hearts and admit that the government needs money for all kinds of things, and this is one way to get it. People do want their schools and hospitals to be better, so this is just practical politics.

To get through the first eight holes in 3-under as I did was really good, but I must admit I am happy in the wind.

Ken Goldberg

To have nature directly admitted into the San Francisco Opera House is pretty risky because of its unpredictability. As far as we know, nothing like this has ever been done.

To have it come this late is really challenging. We've been through half the admitted class already, and now we have to stop everything and review those students who were affected.

I can choose for this situation to use me, but I'm not going to. There are a few teams who have separated themselves from the playoff race and we're one of them. I won't say we're out of it - I'll never admit that. But there is a separation where if we are to replace people, we will see a younger player.

I came over and she told me she was planning to admit herself the next day, ... I was kind of taken aback. I asked her if she wanted to reschedule, but she didn't want to. She wanted the company. Or maybe the hospital didn't take admissions on Sundays.

Al Goldstein

I believe in me. I'm God. God is your need to believe in some super being. I am the super being. I am your God, admit it.

David Cameron

He always wanted to be Prime Minister, not just party leader, ... He won't admit it now and he wouldn't then, but he breathed ambition.

He admitted to you his conduct. He's lied to everybody up until now because of his shame.

He admitted to having firearms in the residence, admitted he had threatened him. He made no bones he hated the guy and threatened him.

Dennis Miller

He admitted this was stupid. It's a very serious offense. I wouldn't consider it a prank. ... It could have turned into something that caused far more injury, and even death, than it did.

Matt Damon

He admitted Miramax wouldn't make the film with Johnny and that I was their choice. They thought Johnny was too weird and didn't have any box-office clout.