An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.
Antonio Tabucchi
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
Alan Watts
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
Josephus Daniels
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
Evan Esar
Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.
Miriam Makeba
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
Diane Ackerman
I always tell people I'm running against two Democrats, one that admits it and one that does not.
Marco Rubio
I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.
O. J. Simpson
If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.
Christian Lous Lange
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
Publilius Syrus
Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.
Mason Cooley
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
Robert Burton
Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?
Laurence J. Peter
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
Augustus Hare
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
Elia Kazan
Therefore God is one, if that which admits of so great power can be nothing else: and yet those who deem that there are many gods, say that they have divided their functions among themselves; but we will discuss all these matters at their proper places.
Lactantius
This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.
Richard Cobden
To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.
Ang Lee
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