At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

`` So help me, Crouch, I'd like to kill you where you stand, but, before I do, I'm going to hear you admit killing him.

I am getting deaf, I must admit it ''.

For me, these will belong more completely to their surroundings if they are conceived in this early stage, though I freely admit that I do not hesitate to add or eliminate figures on the full sheet when it serves my final purpose.

I took a deep breath and an even deeper swallow of my drink, and said, `` I admit that going back to Ralph Waldo Emerson for humor is like going to a modern musical comedy for music and comedy ''.

Or you could hope the parachute wouldn't open just so you could say you saw it not open, not because you meant any harm to Starkey Poe in his suit of red underwear, but mainly because you were tired of being an old maid -- a thing which cannot admit when it thinks it might be pregnant, but must stand the dizzy feeling all alone and go on like everything is all right instead of being able to say to somebody in a normal voice: `` I think I'm pregnant ''.

And, though at the time I blushed to admit it even to myself, there was in me a growing desire, a sexual awareness, that Johnnie had set in motion, an awareness that no other man had ever triggered.

`` I'm an advertising hustler, I admit, but I have to get hot once in a larger sphere.

" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England ’ s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.

Alford guilty plea, an " I'm guilty but I didn't do it " plea and the Alford doctrine ) in United States law is a guilty plea in criminal court, where the defendant does not admit the act and asserts innocence.

Influential French critic M. Henri Rochefort commented, " I am compelled to admit, not without some chagrin, that not one of our female artists … is strong enough to compete with the lady who has given us this year the portrait of Dr. Grier.

I am glad that he has been courageous enough and logical enough to admit that his argument, if pushed as far as it must go, if worth anything, would prove that men may have come from the Ourang-Outang.

This term, it is true, has sometimes been used, and is still sometimes used, in almost as restricted a sense as that of Tamil itself, so that though on the whole it is the best term I can find, I admit it is not perfectly free from ambiguity.

I told him if he was sneaking in he should at least admit he was doing it.

I admit that it scared me that my popularity could make people start using drugs ", he once said in an interview.

Allan Greenberg had scorned the design when it was first unveiled, but wrote later to J. Carter Brown: " I am forced to admit that you are right and I was wrong!

The prisoners were coerced to confess that they had spat on the Cross: " Moi Raymond de La Fère, 21 ans, reconnais que ( J ' ai ) craché trois fois sur la Croix, mais de bouche et pas de coeur " ( free translation: " I, Raymond de La Fère, 21 years old, admit that I have spat three times on the Cross, but only from my mouth and not from my heart ").

" He goes on to admit: " Nevertheless, when I first heard of Mr. Galton's experiments, I did not sufficiently reflect on the subject, and saw not the difficulty of believing in the presence of gemmules in the blood.

Aristotle fled the city to his mother's family estate in Chalcis, explaining, " I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy ," a reference to Athens's prior trial and execution of Socrates.

" I was giving water to the wounded because I saw your face in all of them ," replied Bhai Kanhaiya.

His system included modifying the way we consider the world, e. g., with an attitude of " I don't know ; let's see ," to better discover or reflect its realities as revealed by modern science.

" You see ," Korzybski remarked, " I have just demonstrated that people don't just eat food, but also words, and that the taste of the former is often outdone by the taste of the latter.

" Alas ," he is recorded to have said, " surrounded by great warriors devoted to my cause, guarded night and day by them, I should have allowed them to do their job.

" On July 27, 1868, the day before the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, U. S. Congress declared in the preamble of the Expatriation Act that " the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ," and ( Section I ) one of " the fundamental principles of this government " ( United States Revised Statutes, sec.

" I think you can only go so far with this economic model ," Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told a news conference in Yerevan.

's No Lark ," and another composition, " Re: Person I Knew " is a tribute to his producer, Orrin Keepnews.

When a character in Aristophanes ' Knights says, " I dreamed the goddess poured ambrosia over your head — out of a ladle ," the homely and realistic ladle brings the ineffable moment to ground with a thump.

And coming to Clermont he set on fire, overthrew and destroyed that shrine which they call Vasso Galatae in the Gallic tongue ," martyring many Christians ( Historia Francorum Book I. 32 – 34 ).

In loyalty oaths, it was, " I will not value my life or that of my children less highly than I do the safety of the Emperor and his sisters ," or, if in consular motions: " Good fortune attend to the Emperor and his sisters.

" When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer ," Fleming would later say, " But I suppose that was exactly what I did.

** " Hello, John ," I said.

" I just pleaded guilty because they said if I didn't, they would gas me for it ," wrote Alford in one of his appeals.

A self-portrait, a drawing in silverpoint, is dated 1484 ( Albertina, Vienna ) “ when I was a child ," as his later inscription says.

" After a string quartet ," Martin explains, " I do not think there is a satisfactory sound for strings until one has at least three players on each line ... as a rule two stringed instruments together create a slight " beat " which does not give a smooth sound.

" I was indignant as hell about that leg ," he would reveal in a November 1950 interview in Time magazine.

" The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else ," Capp philosophically wrote ( in Life magazine on May 23, 1960 ), " was to be indifferent to that difference.

" I heard that Bud Fisher ( creator of Mutt and Jeff ) got $ 3, 000 a week and was constantly marrying French countesses ," Capp said.

Accordingly, it is the aim of this essay to advance a new theory of imitation ( which I shall call mimesis in order to distinguish it from earlier theories of imitation ) and a new theory of invention ( which I shall call symbol for reasons to be stated hereafter ).

His fellow Virginian, George Washington, had stated, `` I believe no event was ever received with more heartfelt joy ''.

We would attend a film and, later on, I stated, we might go to the Mayflower Coffee Shop or Child's or Toffenetti's for waffles.

As I have stated previously, the Attorney General has advised me that this section violates fundamental constitutional principles.

As I have repeatedly stated, this provision is much more restrictive than the general law, popularly known as the Buy American Act.

But before discussing it, I should like to record one vote of thanks to them for the clarity with which they have stated their case.

A Yank writing from Vicksburg, May 28, 1863, stated: `` not less than 50 balls have passed over me since I commenced writing.

In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.

Of his learning method, Lincoln stated: " I studied with nobody ".

Arminius referred to Pelagianism as " the grand falsehood " and stated that he " must confess that I detest, from my heart, the consequences that theology.

Norman, who once notably sang it at the end of a large outdoor rock concert for Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday, stated, " I don't know whether it's the text — I don't know whether we're talking about the lyrics when we say that it touches so many people — or whether it's that tune that everybody knows.

In February 2006, he suffered a stroke in Scarborough, and stated: " I hope to be back on my feet, or should I say my left leg, as soon as possible, but I know it is going to take some time.

" Clinton himself stated that DOMA was something " which the Republicans put on the ballot to try to get the base vote for President Bush up, I think it ’ s obvious that something had to be done to try to keep the Republican Congress from presenting that.

Whedon stated: " The Origin comic, though I have issues with it, CAN pretty much be accepted as canonical.

Writer Alan Grant has stated, " The Batman I wrote for 13 years isn't gay.

The memoradum stated that " I am assured that the solution of the problem of Palestine which would be much the most welcome to the leaders and supporters of the Zionist movement throughout the world would be the annexation of the country to the British Empire ".

Pfanzagl's axiomatization was endorsed by Oskar Morgenstern: " Von Neumann and I have anticipated " the question whether probabilities " might, perhaps more typically, be subjective and have stated specifically that in the latter case axioms could be found from which could derive the desired numerical utility together with a number for the probabilities ( cf.

In an ecstatic interview after the game, Jim Tracy stated that he told the Rockies ' preceding batter, relief pitcher Adam Eaton, not to swing: " I don't care if he throws three right down the middle, don't swing because I want Spilborghs to have a shot with the bases loaded.

Coloured Cheddar-style cheese has long been sold, but even as early as 1860, the real reason for this was unclear: Joseph Harding stated " to the cheese consumers of London who prefer an adulterated food to that which is pure I have to announce an improvement in the annatto with which they compel the cheesemakers to colour the cheese ".

:" If I had stated ... the possibility of the introduction or origination of fresh species being a natural, in contradistinction to a miraculous process, I should have raised a host of prejudices against me, which are unfortunately opposed at every step to any philosopher who attempts to address the public on these mysterious subjects ".