Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is a professional patient who understood the system well enough to get admitted to a hospital and the illness well enough to emulate the symptoms.

This is really criminalizing well-intentioned, honest mistakes, and singling out -- I think unfairly -- the one company that up front admitted its mistakes early on.

They made no effort to win and admitted that themselves afterwards,

Ishmael Reed

I challenged that and said that he hadn't read much. I mean, how can you make that superlative statement? And he admitted he hadn't read much.

Jeff Goodell

Even the biggest coal boosters have long admitted that coal is a dying industry - the fight has always been over how fast and how hard the industry will fall.

Bill Maher

Bob Dole admitted he used cocaine when he was in college, but then Coca-Cola changed its formula.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Everyone, you know, admitted it, ... It was the redistricting, the way it was carved out. You couldn't really get an incumbent out of office.

Assuming that the person with a disability is using an appropriately trained animal, the assistance animal should be admitted ... unless the animal presents a direct threat to others.

They are admitting they have very cloudy visibility on the very critical holiday season. What might be more significant to investors is that even though they had an admittedly superb second quarter, where are we going from here?

They admitted to making a huge mistake and they said they'd pay the money back, ... They showed some remorse. It's just a sad deal all the way around.

William Goldman

What are we going to do about Billy? That was the phrase that haunted me those first ten years. I pretended not to care, but secretly I was petrified. Everyone and everything was passing me by. I had no real friends, no single person who shared an equal interest in all games. I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone.

Alexei Yashin

The puck went in, and the referee admitted that he had blown the whistle before the puck went in and apologized. It was a really tough break. It would have been great to have the tie at that point, and take our chances in overtime.

Ned Colletti

We felt we needed pitchers who could throw strikes. The two players we sent out were not throwing strikes. Carter admitted he's never had a stretch like this where he couldn't throw strikes.

While fundamentals are admittedly weak, given the stock's weak recent performance, we are reluctant to get incrementally bearish, particularly ahead of a potential restructuring announcement.

You don't hit a home run with a witness who has admittedly lied for years but all of a sudden, because he has a get-out-of jail-free card, has changed his mind. If the prosecution thinks it hit a home run they're not going to last the full nine innings.

At the moment at which I admitted my sin and asked for God's forgiveness, He gave me the deepest level of understanding of mercy that I could ever have imagined.

Eddie Sutton

There's people back there, whatever the reason, they still have it out for JamesOn, ... Some people there haven't forgiven him. They can't look past the situation, and it's too bad. I'm talking about adults. JamesOn made a bad, bad mistake. It was out of character. But he's admitted to it. He's never run from it. He's answered every question about it, and more than that, he's been a great kid. I mean, let me tell you -- he is a special, special kid.

He's matured a lot over the last four years. He admitted that the first three years have been tough, that he didn't know if he was going to be able to get it right up there. Now he's feeling really good and confident.

How do you know the defendant lied? Well, because the defendant admitted it here in the courtroom.

Michael Morse

I know what I did, ... I admitted it and I was punished. I was a man about it and I dealt with it. But now I feel like someone who committed a crime and did the time and suddenly gets a phone call two years later he has to go back to jail. It's not fair.

Jan C. Ting

I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year.

Muhammadu Buhari

If you are starving and young and in search of answers as to why your life is so difficult, fundamentalism can be alluring. We know this for a fact because former members of Boko Haram have admitted it: They offer impressionable young people money and the promise of food, while the group's mentors twist their minds with fanaticism.

It knew all about it. There was no problem, they were admitted to Canada, their visas always renewed.

It was a major surgery, and Bo is recovering. Doctors removed a tube from his stomach used for draining blood during surgery. Today is a much better day, even better than the day before the hospital admitted him. He was very ill.

Dan Bailey

It was a time in my life. I made a mistake. I pleaded guilty to it. I admitted to what my problems were. I paid my debt to society, and moved on.

It is unknown at this time if he is part of the rash of car break-ins, but we haven't linked him to the Roselawn and Pryor incidents. The night that we caught him we have yet to determine who the property he was in possession of belongs to, ... He could not identify the items in the backpack and has admitted for at least four vehicle break-ins.

It is the first time that these companies have admitted to major quantitative reductions in antibiotic use. And it's not just one company but a tier of companies the top tier of companies.

John Scofield

In the States, this type of jam-band phenomena has opened it up for groups to improvise, admittedly more in the groove area, as opposed to the straight-ahead jazz thing - which is good for me, as that's one part of where I'm at. It's been so great playing these gigs and seeing kids come out and the whole college scene.

Intelligent design is simply the most recent version of creationism, which is admittedly a religious concept. There is no scientific basis to intelligent design.

O. Henry

In spite of this, once admitted to the general ward the typhus patient did not contaminate any of the other patients, the nurses or the doctors.

William Bastone

In off-the-record interviews with us, Frey admitted embellishing facts in the book for dramatic impact.

In retrospect, it was a scary thing. My wife said the doctors were kind of sugar-coating it at first but later admitted that they were concerned about paralysis.

John Adams

It has escaped no one's attention that celebrating Minimalism in the context of a symphony orchestra is admittedly a problematic fit. Most of the best Minimalist music is not scored for conventional orchestra. But the Los Angeles Philharmonic, being an orchestra that is not only a hundred-piece ensemble but also an amalgam of distinct, highly talented performers, found many ways to make a successful survey of this magnitude.