#admit

We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#books #brightness #dejan-stojanovic #glow #literature

I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong. ↗

— Burt Bacharach

#always #had #i #mistake #people

I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#am #first #i #lucky

I'm a trained lawyer, after all, so I don't have to admit to anything. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#after #anything #i #lawyer #trained

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

#admit #along #annoyed #being #elsewhere

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#become #chief #error #infallibility #leader

I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#allowed #applause #been #between #culprit

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#admitted #ambition #another #becomes #consist

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost. ↗

— Felix Adler

#assembly #consideration #contentions #custom #exalted

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

#admit #another #class #country #dogma