Confession Quotes - Page 19

• Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I.

  Ahmad Shamloo

  Secret Love, Silence, Deeds

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• I have replaced my instinct for secrecy with an instinct for confession.

  Melissa Febos

  Instinct, Secrecy, Replaced

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Torch songs are confessions. They are an expression of feeling that cannot be concealed or contained or minimized. They are marked by anguish, yes, but also by yielding.

  Melissa Febos

  Song, Expression, Feelings

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• If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something he had not done. Intuition holds that the innocent do not make false confessions.

  David K. Shipler

  Believe, Intuition, Done

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• The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Lying, Hero

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.304, University of Chicago Press

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• All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstones poems so much. They remind me of the one she has studied most - shall we call her her master - Emily Dickinson. Not in the forms, not, as such, in the music, and not in the references; but in that weird intimacy, that eerie closeness, that absolute confession of soul.... In Barnstone, too, the two worlds are intensely present, and the voice moves back and forth between them. She has the rare art of distance and closeness. It gives her her fine music, her wisdom, her form. She is a fine poet.

  Gerald Stern

  Art, Distance, Moving

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• Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.

  William Blackstone

  Fall, Gambling, May

  Sir William Blackstone (1841). “Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books ; with an analysis of the work”

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• Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of humanactions.... Where that desire is wanting, we are apt to be indifferent, listless, indolent, and inert.... I will own to you, under the secrecy of confession, that my vanity has very often made me take great pains to make many a woman in love with me, if I could, for whose person I would not have given a pinch of snuff.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Pain, Vanity, Names

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• Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Religious, People

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• The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder. The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will. It is the bodily symbol of identity with nature. We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self, and the eyes will not lie, but make a faithful confession what inhabitant is there.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Spring, Moving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.410

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• For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Successful, Seasons

  Charles Spurgeon (1998). “Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare (6 In 1 Anthology)”, p.51, Whitaker House

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• Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intelligent, Men, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.387

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• I have a terrible confession to make, sort of like those people who say that they've been mispronouncing a word all their life: I've never read Ways of Seeing all the way through. I'm sure I carried it around with me in art school.

  David Salle

  Art, School, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask for a scrap of paper for the most trivial use, it may have the confessions of Augustine or the sonnets of Shakespeare, and we not observe it. The student kindles his fire, the editor packs his trunk, the sportsman loads his gun, the traveler wraps his dinner, the Irishman papers his shanty, the schoolboy peppers the plastering, the belle pins up her hair, with the printed thoughts of men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Book, Gun

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• Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Kind, Clear

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.203, Modern Library

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• Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God.

  Billy Graham

  Feet, Grace, Bows

  Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention.

  John Hay Beith

  Marriage, Intention, Ghastly

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• I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Games, Redemption, Path

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• I have a confession to make. Yesterday, I was responsible for the deaths of millions of Britons. What happened is that MI5 asked me to trail Mehan Asnik, a suspected terrorist, through the streets of London. He had escaped from our security services while infected with a plague virus. Tracking him on CCTV, I swear I had him but then, in the rush-hour bustle, lost him. When the secure mobile rang, it was Harry Pearce at Thames House, chewing me out for the slaughter that had been caused by my mistake.

  Mark Lawson

  Mistake, Yesterday, House

  "TV matters: Spooks Interactive" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2007.

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• I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.

  John Maeda

  Men, Careers, Simplicity

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• A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Past, Simple, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India”

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• While we destroyed the Centre Party, we have not only brought thousands of priests back into the Church, but to millions of respectable people we have restored their faith in their religion and in their priests. The union of the Evangelical Church in a single Church for the whole Reich, the Concordat with the Catholic Church, these are but milestones on the road which leads to the establishment of a useful relation and a useful co operation between the Reich and the two Confessions.

  Adolf Hitler

  Party, Two, People

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939”

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• Imbued with the desire to secure for the German people the great religious, moral, and cultural values rooted in the two Christian Confessions, we have abolished the political organizations but strengthened the religious institutions.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Organization

  Adolf Hitler “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes”

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• Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Self, Political, Soul

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• The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity.

  John Adams

  Jesus, Faith Religion, Atheism

  "Fictional character: John Adams". "Spirit", Book by William Edelen, 1989.

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