A Quote by Robert Creeley

My nature is a quagmire of unresolved confessions.

Robert Creeley

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Confessions Nature Quagmire Unresolved

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Robert Creeley
American - Poet
May 21, 1926 - March 30, 2005

My confessions are shameless. I confess, but do not repent. The fact is, my confessions are prompted, not by ethical motives, butintellectual. The confessions are to me the interesting records of a self-investigator.

W.N.P. Barbellion

There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.

Bill James

Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy.

Andrew Sullivan

I was putting on a stiff upper lip and trying to fulfill the obligations I thought were demanded of me, taking over my father's role of taking care of my mother... and having to be the recipient of her confessions and emotions but of a delusional nature.

Allen Ginsberg

No. That's someone else's business. Quagmire is - I don't do quagmires.

Donald Rumsfeld

MSN became a quagmire, partly because of Microsoft's hubris.

Donald Clark

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.

Sarah Vowell

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

James Joyce

Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i.e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand. This is so not because such confessions are unlikely to be true but because the methods used to extract them offend an underlying principle in the enforcement of our criminal law: that ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charges against an accused out of his own mouth.

Felix Frankfurter

At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.

Charles B. Rangel

Iraq is a quagmire and has been a humanitarian disaster for the Iraqis. There is no way forward without ending the occupation.

Jean Parker

After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies, and principles... Nature runs on sunlight. Nature uses only the energy it needs. Nature fits form to function. Nature recycles everything. Nature rewards cooperation. Nature banks on diversity. Nature demands local expertise. Nature curbs excesses from within. Nature taps the power of limits.