Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Zinni

We grow up in a culture where accountability, learning to accept responsibility, admitting mistakes and learning from them was critical to us. When we don't see that happening it worries us. Poor military judgment has been used throughout this mission.

We are admitting it, we are the ones who did it.

Catherynne M. Valente

Woman! Come out! I have—" She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. "I have come to rescue you," she finally said, as if admitting that she were covered in boils.

Arthur Guiterman

Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.

Brad Meltzer

There's nothing wrong with wanting someone to save us - or admitting we can't do it all ourselves.

Jane Fonda

Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing course.

Jane Austen

They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.

Jase Robertson

The first step to dealing with a problem is admitting that you have a problem.

Audre Lorde

I know the anger lies inside of me like I know the beat of my heart and the taste of my spit. It is easier to be furious than to be yearning. Easier to crucify myself in you than to take on the threatening universe of whiteness by admitting that we are worth wanting each other.

Denise Levertov

We call it "Nature"; only reluctantly admitting ourselves to be "Nature" too.

One thing is for sure: most of the people admitting candidates to universities for technical subjects are pretty dissatisfied with the level of math education.

Trinny Woodall

I would advise women not to be shy about admitting they've had Botox - it just shows you want to look your best, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Jules Verne

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?

John Ridley

To this day, the only argument against Obama that critics can seem to come up with involves admitting he's better than them - though they certainly season it with some racism. You know, he's that lucky black man who actually appeals to the populace. He's that elitist who got himself off food stamps and into Harvard.

He doesn't understand a lot of our American slang and is always saying something completely off the wall that makes us all laugh. He is very positive and is very good at admitting his mistakes.

What might prompt some dollar fears is that the United States is closer to admitting the deficits are a big problem.

I am certainly in the camp that this rumor makes little sense. If eBay were to make this sort of move it would basically be admitting that 'our core market is decelerating.

What we will do is work with those institutions to make sure that our rules don't get in their way admitting the students, providing them with the kind of financial aid that they need for their enrollment this fall at these other institutions.

He's admitting he has a problem and would like to get out to arrange to deal with family affairs,

Jeff Mullins

Basically, we have to rely on people admitting their conditions.

I'm a methamphetamine addict and I'm admitting that in this court. I'm done with all the lies ... I need treatment.

I'm a methamphetamine addict and I'm admitting that in this court, ... I'm done with all the lies ... I need treatment.

Bill Clinton

Terror leaves bitter enemies. The poison stays long in the well. The purpose, after all, is not to achieve military victory, but to achieve a change in circumstances by terror, to make us afraid of today, afraid of tomorrow, afraid of each other. Therefore, it cannot win unless we become admitting accomplices, changing the way we think and feel and live.

Steve Schmidt

John Kerry is right to say that this moment is a moment of truth, but that truth must include John Kerry admitting that he offers no credible alternatives to the policies in Iraq, and admitting that his suggestions are proposals that the administration is already doing: involving NATO, involving the U.N. and training Iraqi security forces.

I think the need for compensation in Alan's case is obvious, but there's also a need for rehabilitation. I definitely think there should be some compensation or assistance. On the other hand, I don't want other prosecutors to see this and be afraid that admitting a mistake is going to be costly.

Warren Christopher

I think the country will come together, but we have a rocky four years ahead, and maybe admitting that, and not being too euphoric about that, is the best way to face this. This is going to be a very evenly divided country, and we'll need to find centrist coalitions that can get things done.

Sara Blakely

I was trying to convince all these men to try to make a product that they didn't even wear! Or if they did wear them, they were not admitting it! There was the problem right there. No wonder their hosiery was so uncomfortable.

It doesn't mean we're not admitting students with a B average and an 1,100 SAT.

I think this is an extremely positive step that the high court has taken by admitting the appeal and by ensuring that the accused do not leave the country.

Bill Brandt

Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.

Glen Sather

I don't think you ever go into a season admitting anything to anyone that you're going to win the Stanley Cup, you're not going to make the playoffs or you are going to make the playoffs. I knew that they were going to be a good team as soon as we had them together in training camp.

Mr. Berg has no hesitation admitting that what he did was wrong. He's been humiliated by the harm he's caused this young lady.

Charles Darwin

we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps