Confession Quotations

It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.

President Gerald R. Ford was never one for second-guessing, but for many years after leaving office in 1977, he carried in his wallet a scrap of a 1915 Supreme Court ruling. 'A pardon,' the excerpt said, 'carries an imputation of guilt,' and acceptance of a pardon is 'a confession of it.'

Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.

A confession has to be part of your new life.

Everyone sees something different in 'Endgame': a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the face of death, a night of baffling hopelessness, a meaningless babble. Each interpretation reveals an absurd truth - not about the play, but about the person watching it.

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.

The inviolability of the seal of confession is so fundamental to the very nature of the sacrament that any proposal which undermines that inviolability is a challenge to the rights of every Catholic to freedom of religion and conscience.

Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.

I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.

Private confession was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles.

There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.

I grew up Catholic. We went to confession on Saturday, stood in the shortest line, since it led to the priest who gave the easiest penance - usually a few Our Fathers and Hail Marys. We confessed in private, prayed our penance and our souls were clean.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

What's stunning about their ability to raise reasonable doubt there is that the facts clearly show that he intentionally slit her throat despite his jailhouse confession to the contrary. Somehow Brittain and Williams raised enough reasonable doubt on that question to avoid the needle.

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.

If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.

Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.

My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing

The confession of one man humbles all.

If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don't do that, I've hamstrung the melody.

Silence (in court) may be equivalent to confession

She is the principal figure to date to be sentenced by the tribunal, and when you add the confession of guilt it makes for a significant milestone in the work of the tribunal.

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.

Pete's confession lacked one major thing in Bud's mind: remorse. I spoke to Bud later, and he told me he got the confession he had expected, but not the expression of genuine remorse he had hoped for.

But all they want to doIs tie the poem to a chair with ropeAnd torture a confession out of it.They begin beating it with a hoseTo find out what it really means.

But all they want to do Is tie the poem to a chair with rope And torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose To find out what it really means.

I have a deep, scratchy voice. Boys would call me Froggy, and my father would often tell me to shut my 'big bazoo.' I remember standing in line for confession. After I walked out, the other kids were like, 'You punched your sister in the face?' Because of my voice, my confession was like speaking into a loudspeaker.

I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews.

If the Bush economic program is as successful as they say it is, why do they keep firing everybody who had anything to do with it? ... an extraordinary confession of failure in the economic arena by this administration.

He's a child. Thirteen-year-olds are more susceptible to a false confession than a 40-year-old.

I think the worst of the confession season is over.

Overcoming a confession in the best of circumstances is a difficult hurdle.

went publicly and conveyed this material to the lawyers. At this point the seal of confession is not in play.

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

Well, it's still the beginning of the so-called confession season, but it is a little disturbing in that we're running somewhat higher than the normal number of pre-announcements that we would expect this early. And we're running a little bit more negative than we normally do at this early stage.

True confession time: I never know where a book is going. I get a gut feeling the story is there, then pursue it with the enthusiasm of a hunting tiger on a trail. If I knew where I was going, I'd get bored out of my mind and stop writing.

It's not a confession if no one reads it. It's just an unshared secret.

Some secrets should never turn into confessions. I know that better than anyone.

Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.

Advice is always a confession.

When a defendant makes a request for a lawyer, all questioning must stop until a lawyer is on the scene. The fact that Shaw made two requests for a lawyer and was questioned for twenty minutes indicates a violation of his rights, assuming that is what really happened. My understanding is that Miranda does not legitimize a confession obtained by questioning a defendant who has repeatedly asked for a lawyer.

This will be as bad if not worse than what we saw in the first and fourth quarters of '97. We're looking for about 3 percent S&P 500 growth right now, and the consensus is looking for about 6 percent or better. So I think anxiety levels will remain in place for a couple of weeks until we get further through this confession period.

There has to be some evidence besides the confession that the criminal act was committed by someone -- that the crime was real and not imagined.

the physical and circumstantial evidence the police have gathered. If there's a strong nexus between that evidence and the defendant, dismissing the confession won't necessarily destroy the case against the defendant.

There are a few things you never do ? you don't serve red wine with a soft cheese ? but I've drunk red wine with fish, and I didn't go to confession afterward.

To me, a statement and confession are not necessarily synonymous.

There is nothing, first of all, nothing more sacred then the seal of confession, ... I did not consider this to fall under that precise seal of confession because he had not come to me explicitly seeking absolution, but to find a solution on how he could help his friends.

An honest confession is good for the soul, but bad for the reputation

a formal confession to begin with, but an appeal to me for advice, followed by a blessing.

Once we hit the fourth quarter confession season, we'll see a pullback,

This grand-standing will not help. This is the confession of a culprit caught red-handed trying to subvert the constitution and democracy.

They knew he was a confession machine who would confess to anything. That's what happened that started this long cycle that Max has gotten here.

There was no confession from the president, and the investigation of this case does not incriminate the president at all.

There was no confession by the president and all the investigations in this case do not implicate him at all.

This is the most reckless and vicious prosecution that I have ever witnessed. There has been no confession whatsoever.

I told him we could mount a defense of extreme emotional disturbance but I also told him his confession is extremely damning. His chances for acquittal are extremely remote.

It shouldn't take this to be able to have the conversation we're having. What you have in front of you is a confession on the part of this district that we can't provide an education at that school for the kids that are there today.

Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocency

Confession may be good for the soul, but not on Wall Street. The negative pre-announcements that have been with us for the past two weeks has begun to accelerate with 21 confessions yesterday (Wednesday) and a handful this morning. This sets up some fear and trembling about the wide range of reports to come through most of July.

It's something I go to confession about. But I was a coach. I coached African-American kids. There's no way I think any less of people because of their skin color.

His confession was no confession at all. He confessed to something he really didn't do.

Hey, I've got a confession to make. I don't know if you read your mail, but I wrote you a love letter when I was 8.

You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Women can have all the evidence but they still want the confession.

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

confession ran in the family.

The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution.

In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model; our artifacts tell more about ourselves than our confessions.

I'm a confession that is waiting to be heard

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.

Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.

God comes on his own terms. He comes when commands are revered, hearts are clean, and confession is made.

My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.

The improper striking of women from the jury the improper exclusion of evidence of foot fetishes that proves Bone's motive improper exclusion of the clip of Bone's confession and the improper argument of their theory of motive.

A good confession before Easter remains an obligation that should be fully valued and gives us the opportunity to start anew.

The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become

Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it; nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept.

My whole act is confession.

Acting is a form of confession.

Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.

I own the soft impeachment.

All confessions are Odysseys.

My nature is a quagmire of unresolved confessions.

We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to us, our intimate friends, those who have been most devotedly ready to receive our confession.

Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.

Do not spread the compost on the weeds.

For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.

There is, in world affairs, a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

The act of love is a confession.