Concedo In English Quotes & Sayings

We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children. — Rob Reiner

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different? — C.S. Lewis

Feel that it had not been the most direful mistake in his plan of education. Something must have been wanting within, or time would have worn away much of its ill effect. He feared that principle, active principle, had been wanting, that they had never been properly taught to govern their inclinations and tempers, by that sense of duty which can alone suffice. They had been instructed theoretically in their religion, but never required to bring it into daily practice. To be distinguished for elegance and accomplishments - the authorised object of their youth - could have had no useful influence that way, no moral effect on the mind. He had meant them to be good, but his cares had been directed to the understanding and manners, not the disposition; and of the necessity of self-denial and humility, he feared they had never heard from any lips that could profit them. — Jane Austen

Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way. — George Crabbe

What's done is done. The joy is in the doing. — William Shakespeare

But if you were investigating a crime," said Lady Swaffham, "you'd have to begin by the usual things, I suppose - finding out what the person had been doing, and who'd been to call, and looking for a motive, wouldn't you?"

"Oh, yes," said Lord Peter, "but most of us have such dozens of motives for murderin' all sorts of inoffensive people. There's lots of people I'd like to murder, wouldn't you?"

"Heaps," said Lady Swaffham. — Dorothy L. Sayers

There is a fine line in the Third World between half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe and half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe
so they can throw you in jail. — P. J. O'Rourke

The United States should get rid of its militias. — Joseph Stalin

Transcendence is transformation. — Peter Watts

If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father. — Mary Todd Lincoln

I don't understand how the Republican party is the party with the reputation for fiscal conservatism and fiscal sanity, when they're the ones who run up the debt. It was Reagan who ran up the debt and now Bush is doing it again, and in between, Clinton and Bush's father, I must say, worked so hard to get that deficit and that debt down. — Bill Maher

Women have to air it out, hold on to it, work on it. — Kim Delaney

Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great. — Gary Locke

I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself. — Carrie Fisher