Confess Quotes

"As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany"

Gustav Krupp, Businessman

"I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish"

George Crumb, Composer

"All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less"

John Owen, Theologian

"I have to confess that there have been some times when I was less than glad to be a minister, and some Sundays still when I tremble under the weight of trying to speak a word for God"

James Green Somerville

"A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things"

Murray Kempton, Journalist

"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act"

Robert Jackson, Statesman

"I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive"

Genevieve Bujold, Actress

"I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas"

Alfred Kastler

"I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure"

Herb Alpert, Musician

"There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past"

Mel Torme, Musician

"We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them"

Gerald Brenan, Writer

"The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind"

Lactantius, Author

"The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed"

DeWitt Clinton, Politician

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