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Admitted to Playboy in 1993 that he smoked marijuana twice. -- Rush Limbaugh
Acquaint thyself with God, if thou would'st tasteHis works. Admitted once to his embrace,Thou shalt perceive that thou was blind before:Thine eye shall be instructed; and thine heartMade pure shall relish with divine delightTill then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought. -- William Cowper
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority. -- Elbert Hubbard
I gave in, and admitted that God was God. -- C. S. Lewis
I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time. -- Alfred Russel Wallace
A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. -- James Boswell
Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. -- Mary Shelley
It wasn't until I was working on 'Tacky' that I admitted to myself that I was writing a series. -- Steven Brust
I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat. -- Henry Cavill
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain. -- Henry David Thoreau
It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890. -- Charles Tupper
Saddam Hussein has openly admitted to the rest of the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. He used those weapons to kill his own people. -- Saxby Chambliss
What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted. -- Olusegun Obasanjo
It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color. -- Maxfield Parrish
For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. -- James Boswell
He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I don't think I would be so open. So that's a huge blessing. -- Anne Heche
I liked teaching, but the bureaucracy of academia and the petty intrigue... It wasn't a good fit. Once I admitted that myself, that I didn't like academia, I was ready to try TV. -- Nic Pizzolatto
For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion. -- John Podhoretz
Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety. -- Dick Cavett
It will be admitted on all hands, that with the exception of the powers surrendered by the Constitution of the United States, the people of the several States are absolutely and unconditionally sovereign within their respective territories. -- Roger B. Taney
Madonna did amazing songs. She had an amazing sense of style, without a stylist. And she was flawed, and sometimes she admitted it. I'll fight the fight for Madonna. I think she should send me some chocolates or something to thank me. -- M.I.A.
My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969. -- Camille Paglia
It must be admitted that science has its castes. The man whose chief apparatus is the differential equation looks down upon one who uses a galvanometer, and he in turn upon those who putter about with sticky and smelly things in test tubes. -- Gilbert Newton Lewis
The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle. -- James Hutton
Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the event, it was reinvented as a means of reducing Russia's reach on its western frontiers and seeking to isolate it. Its former East European client states were admitted to NATO, as were the Baltic states. -- Martin Jacques
I was taken out of school by my dad when I was 11 and lived in Mexico City, then later in Paris. I went with him to excavate in Bolivia and Peru. I never finished high school. I was a straight F student anyway. My father admitted to me later that he'd thought I would come to no good. -- Michael Heizer
Music is admitted under the skin without permission. -- Jon Foreman
Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Lincoln admitted his infirmities to make way for his spring. -- Richard Brookhiser
Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time -- Alfred Russel Wallace
Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question. -- Johannes Kepler
That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted. -- Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free. -- William Cowper
On a recent survey, 80 percent of golfers admitted cheating. The other 20 percent lied. -- Bruce Lansky
But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. -- Alexander Pope
Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them. -- Pierre de Coubertin
I'm crazy, Zed.' There, I'd admitted it.'Uh-huh. And I'm crazy too -about you. -- Joss Stirling
You can't be admitted to the ranks of writers of importance unless you have sales. -- James Salter
It is scary, sometimes, Tomas admitted. But the scary bits are what make you brave. -- Sonya Hartnett
Patients can often be discharged from hospital, then re-admitted a few days later with complications. -- Chris Toumazou
I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball. -- Pete Rose
Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name. -- Florence King
All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous. -- Sister Parish
It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience. -- William Cowper
When is the last time government admitted it might have made a mistake and canceled a program? -- Thomas Bray
I used to get drunk every night until I puked. Finally I admitted, "I am a bulemic". -- Emo Philips
It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal. -- Eric Gill
It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct. -- Herbert Spencer
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. -- Mary Shelley
That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That which is admitted through faith, hardly ever. -- Santiago Ramon y Cajal
I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. -- Albert Camus
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. -- H. L. Mencken
I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you've admitted that you're not going to succeed, -- Elizabeth Holmes
It is time we admitted that we are not at war with terrorism. We are at war with Islam. -- Sam Harris
It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action. -- Augustine Birrell
At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it... -- Nicholas Sparks
At a recent education summit, President Obama admitted that he can't rap. When they heard, Americans said, 'Good!' -- Jimmy Fallon
Out of 135 criminals, including robbers and rapists, 118 admitted that when they were children they burned, hanged and stabbed domestic animals. -- George W. Bush
Yes, and Syrians. There is a horrible crisis there and the United States has admitted virtually none of the refugees. -- Noam Chomsky
And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool--but only to himself, of course. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
One longs for the presence of a leader like Lincoln, who openly admitted his doubts and as openly preserved his commitment. -- Rollo May
Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings. -- William Blake
President Obama has admitted that Medicare is on an unsustainable course and that no amount of tax increases can fix it. -- David Limbaugh
In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly. -- Adam Smith
The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface. -- Amelia B. Edwards
In my dreams, I kill him every night,' Robert admitted. 'A thousand deaths will still be less than he deserves'. -- George R. R. Martin
Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice. -- C. S. Lewis
In one study, old people assigned to a geriatrics team stayed independent for far longer, and were admitted to the hospital less. -- Atul Gawande
God help him." He chortled. "He doesn't realize he loves her. And even if he did, he wouldn't admitted it." -Dr. Whitticomb -- Judith McNaught
The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me. -- R. K. Milholland
It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
I never admitted what I wanted to do for a career to anyone until I was 26. I wish I'd piped up at 18. -- Miranda Hart
Everybody is agreeing so tersely. I just had a flashback to the month before my parents finally admitted they were getting a divorce. -- Samantha Bee
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. -- George Boole
It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. -- E. M. Forster
Personal ignorance should be admitted, but it should not be allowed to place limits and bounds on the ways 'and means of revelation. -- Jeffrey Lang
To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted. -- Michael Shurtleff
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories. -- Teju Cole
It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat. -- Lionel Blue
A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States. -- Edmund Randolph
I have spoken to Einstein and he admitted to me that his theory was in fact no different from the one of Parmenides. -- Karl Popper
Before anything can be reasoned upon to a conclusion, certain facts, principles, or data, to reason from, must be established, admitted, or denied. -- Thomas Paine
You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away. -- Terry Pratchett
When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh. -- Lawrence Welk
It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country. -- Hector Hugh Munro
If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities. -- Neville Cardus
Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections. -- Pierre Charron
I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone. -- William Goldman
My father," she admitted, "was of Italian extraction. Unfortunately, not an affliction that can be cured." She paused. "Though he did die. -- Gail Carriger
I admitted that I did not understand life. What I meant was that I am bewildered by human hearts and motivations, including my own. -- Norman Lock
Lance Armstrong admitted he used performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career. He confessed in front of the most respected judge in the land, Oprah Winfrey. -- Craig Ferguson
The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact. -- Leslie Stephen
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death. -- Jonathan Swift
I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England. -- C. S. Lewis
It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail. -- Sam Harris
I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year. -- Jan C. Ting
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
Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted. -- Seneca the Younger
It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world. -- Nicolas Chamfort
The sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen's club to which the ladies are only admitted on special days. -- Marina Warner
The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms. -- Thomas Bulfinch
To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence. -- Sophie Swetchine
The few women who have been admitted to the study are usually given a second-class status in which they are taught only the basics of self-discovery. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Leo," Hazel gasped, "I can't"?my arms"?" "Hazel," he said. "Do you trust me?" "No!" "Me neither," Leo admitted. -- Rick Riordan
...you lifted the veil when you admitted you had no memory of that day - it was so special and your lack of recall so monstrous... -- John Geddes
No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth -- Blaise Pascal
People aren't always who they seem, Detective. Am I anything like you thought?""No," I admitted. You're a million times better than I could have imagined. -- Dani Alexander
I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not. -- Oscar Wilde
It is generally admitted, and very frequently proved, that virtue and genius, and all the natural good qualities which men possess, are derived from their mothers. -- Theodore Hook
It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on GDP, but on GWB - general well-being -- David Cameron
Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Even Bill Clinton admitted Obamacare is the craziest thing in the world, where people wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half. -- Donald Trump
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity. -- Bill W.

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