Admittance Quotes

• MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Law, Criminals, Dignity

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.164, University of Georgia Press

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• A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.

  Ravi Zacharias

  God, Christian, Men

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jul 23, 2013

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• It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

  Seneca the Younger

  Money, Passion, Worry

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• Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis gold Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief, Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Yield, Gold

  William Shakespeare, J. M. Nosworthy (2000). “Cymbeline: Second Series”, p.56, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• To pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance, not only in the solemn hours of secret prayer. He knocks in the midst of your daily work, your daily struggles, your daily grind. That is when you need Him most.

  Ole Hallesby

  God, Letting Go, Religious

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• They hammered on the outer gate and called, but there was at first no answer; and then to their surprise someone blew a horn, and the lights in the windows went out. A voice shouted in the dark: 'Who's that? Be off! You can't come in. Can't you read the notice: No admittance between sundown and sunrise?' 'Of course we can't read the notice in the dark,' Sam shouted back. 'And if hobbits of the Shire are to be kept out in the wet on a night like this, I'll tear down your notice when I find it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dark, Night, Light

  J. R. R. Tolkien (1980). “The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King”

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• The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Self, Favors

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1219, Delphi Classics

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• Some people, when they use the word 'salvation', understand nothing more by it than deliverance from hell and admittance into heaven. Now, that is not salvation: those two things are the effects of salvation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Two, People, Heaven

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1857 & 1858: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.1546, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• One question on hospital admittance forms really gets me. "Sex: Male or Female?" Do I want to be in a hospital where they can't tell the difference?

  Ronnie Shakes

  Sex, Differences, Want

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• You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature. I would gladly tell all that I know about it, and never paint "No Admittance" on my gate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Secret, Obscurity

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin'd Words.

  John Locke

  Giving, Doctrine, Way

  John Locke (1714). “The Works of John Locke Esq: In Three Volumes. The Contents of which Follow in the Next Leaf. With Alphabetical Tables. ...”, p.228

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• It's not Comic Con any more. It's this huge marketplace for the motion picture and television industry. And the toy manufacturer's and the game people. One of the problems with International Comic Con is that tickets go on sale for the next year's event and the place is full of thousands and thousands of kids who have scraped together every dime to get admittance because they want to get all the freebies.

  Mike Royer

  Kids, Years, Games

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.

  Samuel Beckett

  Mind, Body, Retired

  Samuel Beckett (2011). “Murphy”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We of course have our problems, to say the least, in comportment towards ourselves and our environment, but admittance to the cosmos and the spatial infinity and temporal immortality it provides may well be just the remedy for these age-old problems. Access to the boundless resources of the universe may once and for all puncture the pressure of population and politics of scarcity which have generated war, oppression, and plagued our species from the start.

  Paul Levinson

  War, Space, Age

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• Keep out of your mind, and out of your office, and out of your world, every element that seeks admittance with no definite, helpful, useful end in view.

  George Matthew Adams

  Doors, Views, Mind

  "Up: A Little Book of Talks on how to Wake Up, Get Up, Think Up, Climb Up, Smile Up, Cheer Up, Work Up, Look Up, Help Up, Grow Up!".

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• All scientists know of colleagues whose minds are so well equipped with the means of refutation that no new idea has the temerity to seek admittance. Their contribution to science is accordingly very small.

  Peter Medawar

  Mean, Science, Ideas

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• Everyone strives to attain the Law,' answers the man, 'how does it come about, then, that in all these years no one has come seeking admittance but me?' The doorkeeper perceives that the man is nearing his end and his hearing is failing, so he bellows in his ear: 'No one but you could gain admittance through this door, since this door was intended for you. I am now going to shut it.

  Franz Kafka

  Men, Law, Doors

  Franz Kafka (1970). “The Trial”

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• The older woman waiting for admittance looked at me, then over her shoulder at Patch, who was vanishing down the hall. “Honey,” she told me, “he looks slippery as soap.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Waiting, Looks, Vanishing

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Hush, Hush”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance.

  David Duke

  Jobs, Nice, College

  "David Duke's View Of An Obama Presidency". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 31, 2008.

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