Zitat des Tages über Bekennen / Confess:
Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
Oh, happy day when the enemies of ascendancy have got to confess that people of color rock.
There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.
The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.
I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.
I confess I've never felt like a passenger.
I must confess... I don't know any tongue but the Nether-Dutch.
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
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.
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
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.
It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time.
I must confess, I was born at a very early age.
When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you 'You're no good,' you don't have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
I'll cheerfully confess to spending a lot of time playing completely disgusting computer games that have no redeeming social value.
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.
For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
I confess I've got a yearning to go to Los Angeles, but I can't work out if it is because a lot of British actors seem to go or because there's this perception that the bottom has fallen out of British drama, so therefore, it's the place to head for.
I confess, I do not believe in time.
There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.
If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less.
I have to confess here that I am a useless cook.
