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Jodi Picoult quote: "Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from..."
Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together. Jodi Picoult
Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dwight L. Moody quote: "Someone has said that there are four things necessary in..."
Someone has said that there are four things necessary in studying the Bible: Admit, submit, commit and transmit. Dwight L. Moody
Optimism sprouts from the knowledge that you are in control of your own life, not your past and not those around you. Part of being in control is taking responsibility for how you feel. This means not just admitting to uncomfortable feelings but then examining your circumstances to see what can be done to change these feelings at the source. Augusten Burroughs
What do you think dignity's all about?' The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather a hard thing to explain in a few words, sir,' I said. 'But I suspect it comes down to not removing one's clothing in public. Kazuo Ishiguro
Matt Merton comes back and explains that last week's show on suicide, in which the parents watched a reenactment of their son's suicide, was a healing process for the parents, then shows a video of the parents admitting it was a healing process. ("Sea Oak") George Saunders
Truman Capote quote: "A sensible question, as Mrs. Clare, an admirer of logic,..."
A sensible question, as Mrs. Clare, an admirer of logic, though a curious interpreter of it, was driven to admit. Truman Capote
I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they coul? that your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of master for the more tender and endearing one of friend. Abigail Adams
Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing a tantrum. We take the child, dump him in the lady's cart, and say, "Great. Maybe you can do a better job."Real mothers know that it's okay to eat cold pizza for breakfast. Real mothers admit it is easier to fail at this job than to succeed. Jodi Picoult
...once you recognize, or admit, that your primary goal is to fully express yourself, you will find the means to achieve the rest of your goals... Warren Bennis
I don't hate too many guys. What I may do, I may hate them for a little while, like this guy Stradlater I knew at Pencey, and this other boy, Robert Ackley. I hate them once in a while—I admit it—but it doesn't last too long, is what I mean. After a while, if I didn't see them, if they didn't come in the room, or if I didn't see them in the dining room for a couple of meals, I sort of missed them. I mean I sort of missed them. J. D. Salinger
One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams. Salvador Dali
We must admit that he had eyes like drenched violets, so large that the water seemed to have brimmed in them and widened them; and a brow like the swelling of a marble dome pressed between the two blank medallions which were his temples. Virginia Woolf
My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn’t accept it and kept trying to tell my folks I was reading their body language and was very observant, so I had good reason to imagine I heard people’s thoughts. Of course, she couldn’t admit I was literally hearing people’s thoughts because that just didn’t fit into her world. Charlaine Harris
The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting. Jonathan Swift

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