Quotes with admits

  • It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.
  • Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

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  • Diane Ackerman Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
    Diane Ackerman
    American poet, essayist, savage and naturalist (1948 - )
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  • Antonio Tabucchi 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
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Alan Watts But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Samuel Johnson In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Publilius Syrus It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Aristotle It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Raymond Chandler It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Augustus Hare The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Ang Lee 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
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • E. M. Forster Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Herman Melville When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Victoria Billings Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.
    Victoria Billings
    American writer
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