(347 quotes found)
“To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selections, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree.”
Charles Darwin
“What is wanted / whether this is admitted or not / is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Charlton Heston admitted he had a drinking problem, and I said to myself, "Thank God this guy doesn't own any guns!"”
David Letterman
“I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker.”
Sean Connery
“It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.”
J. D. Salinger
“I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks”
Daniel Boone
“He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument”
Chinese Proverbs
“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them”
Benjamin Franklin
“Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy.”
William Blake
