#admitted

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. ↗

— James Boswell

#among #conversation #excellencies #good #lively

Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous. ↗

— Sister Parish

#admitted #aunt #even #every #family

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

#before #entirely #happily #live #must

When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore. Although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#although #any #anymore #attention #because

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#fear #inferiority #thought

In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who attacked and killed innocent Israeli citizens, and also 12 Americans in Israel in 2003. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#also #attacked #bombers #citizens #fact

President Obama has admitted that Medicare is on an unsustainable course and that no amount of tax increases can fix it. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#amount #course #fix #increases #medicare

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#be true #everyone #idea #platitude #true

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

#admitted #am #confusion #ever #every

Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#authority #body #distinguished #distributed #evenly