Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Byron

Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon -- the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.

You need to identify and recognize and admit that there is a gang problem in New Jersey.

You never want to admit your happy after a loss, but if we're going to lose, this is how I want to lose. We played the best we could and gave it everything we got.

Your best hope is to be honest with the person. Admit you were just trying to make a good impression.

Rudi Johnson

I made a mistake, ... I'm man enough to admit and apologize for it. It's not a big deal, but it was big enough for me not to start the game. You live and learn.

Mickael Pietrus

I made a bad choice and I admit that. I'll move on and come out Wednesday ready to play.

James Mercer

For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of being this old dude maybe making guitars or something.

All the department stores we talked to admit quite clearly it's an unprecedented environment, and they have no direct comparison in being able to plan. It makes their job very, very difficult.

All the guys treat her like one of them and they're not afraid to admit that she is better than some of them.

And I'd rush back to the house and sit down at the computer and knock out a first draft of a Roy chapter and just collapse in those evenings, because it was -- I hate to admit it -- opening up some shadow side of myself and immersing myself there for that moment,

Terry Goodkind

The mark of a wise person is being able to reach beyond the truth, to admit they can learn more than they already know. A wise person doesn't string together the beads of unrelated events into a necklace simply to have something they wish to see. A wise person sees the truth even if it is something unexpected. That is the most beautiful necklace to wear - the truth.

The evidence of marked improvement in the manufacturing sector further guarantees there will be no interest rate cut this Thursday. Indeed, we admit it is looking increasingly questionable whether interest rates will be trimmed further.

Karen Finney

The ethical cloud over the White House is growing. President Bush should have no hesitation about returning the more than $100,000 directly raised for his re-election campaign by an admitted felon.

Ray Brown

The guy wears an unbelievable bull's-eye on his chest for the players in a sense he's always gonna say it's his fault. And I'll tell you, it's not always the case. Players make mistakes, whether we want to admit it or not.

Martin Campbell

The great thing about it is that he makes mistakes and screws up. Bond finds violence hard to take, he won't admit to that. He has to do two killings, one is very messy. He falls in love with a girl, genuinely falls in love.

William Hazlitt

The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.

Joe Sakic

These guys got great goals tonight. I gotta admit to you it was a fun game to play tonight.

This is my first time to try something like this, and I admit I was a little nervous. Now that I know I can do this locally and not at a great expense, I really hope it is something my wife and I can continue to do together as we get older.

Kenneth Williams

All I want is an apology. They don't have to go into any specifics of what happened; I just want them to admit what they did was wrong,

The important thing is that the University admitted it was wrong and fixed the problem immediately.

The idea of training the brain gives us hope. I think many of us are overly frightened of getting old, or even refuse to admit it.

Although Edgeworth in the preface justifies much of the work, he must admit that a sizable portion of it is already obsolete. There is scarcely any value in the essays on money, and also in the part about the work on catallactics.

James Boswell

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

You would be amazed at how many people come in here with a complaint and when we ask them, is your race a factor, at first they don't want to admit that. They will try all kinds of other answers out first.

And no one bats 1,000. Even Warren Buffett is right only 70 percent of the time. Mistakes are just part of the process. You just have to admit your mistakes -- and perhaps set stop-loss orders.

All we can do is apologize, ... I think we have to just admit we've not done enough and we started way too late.

All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

The longer the Fed drags this out without cutting rates, the more they're admitting they don't have much firepower at all. They're sitting on their hands, hoping for the best.

The Jewish Anti-Defamation League is unhappy with what's contained in 'Memory and Reconciliation,' because they believe it still fails to admit the church's corporate responsibility for any complicity in the Holocaust. It lays the blame on flawed humans -- although the document uses the term 'generations' to imply this wasn't simply a few bad apples -- rather than admitting any flaws on the part of the church itself.

The diocese is never going to admit they were wrong or apologize for it.

Paula Abdul

an admitted liar and opportunist who engages in unlawful activities.

James Salter

You can't be admitted to the ranks of writers of importance unless you have sales.

The key is admitting students who are qualified to be in that school.