| Ogden Nash |  To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
Ogden Nash |
| Orson Pratt | If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
Orson Pratt |
| Paul McCartney | I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.
Paul McCartney |
| period | I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative.
Jeffrey Archer
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| Peter Jennings | Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it.
Peter Jennings |
| Peter Steele | I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment.
Peter Steele |
| Phyllis Diller | I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.
Phyllis Diller |
| Piers Anthony | I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.
Piers Anthony |
| Preston Brooks | If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.
Preston Brooks |
| profession | A profession arises when any trade or occupation transforms itself through "the development of formal qualifications based upon education and examinations, the emergence of regulatory bodies with powers to admit and discipline members, and some degree of monopoly rights." |
| Ralph Bakshi | I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.
Ralph Bakshi |
| Raul Grijalva | While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.
Raul Grijalva |
| Ray Manzarek | I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.
Ray Manzarek |
| refuse | I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
Nancy Astor
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| Rem Koolhaas | I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.
Rem Koolhaas |
| repeats | Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
B. R. Ambedkar
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| responsibility | In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.
J. L. Austin
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| Richard Grasso | This is a basic requirement the meaning of globalization is that we should admit that the economy of each country is dependent on the economy of all the others.
Richard Grasso |
| Richard Needham | Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.
Richard Needham |
| Richard Owen | Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit.
Richard Owen |
