Quotes About Omission

without easy credit creation a true bubble cannot occur. That is why so many bubbles have their origins in the sins of omission or commission of central banks.

I don't want to put you in the position of having to lie, Father. I find myself doing enough of that for Mikhail, and I'm not even certain why. Lord knows, he doesn't ask me to." There was sorrow in her voice, regret, confusion. "I wouldn't lie," he said. "Is omission the same thing as a lie, Father?

I see you're trying to distract me from the real point here," Magnus said instead. "You had a birthday - a perfect excuse for me to throw one of my famous parties - and you didn't even tell me about it?

No artist knows everything (yea, even this artist - piss-artist, con-artist, body-artist) but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

History doesn't remember gardens.…You forgot the wise administrators, those who kept the peace, those who brought prosperity. You needn't feel embarrassed, though. So did history.

The most interesting thing about characters are their blind spots. They miss the periphery.

In medicine, sins of commission are mortal, sins of omission venial.

Sometimes my sin is not what I do; it also describes what I don't do when I know I should.

Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books

I was shocked when I would read a newspaper from that time, and the Freedom March wasn't even mentioned.

It doesn't take much legal sleight of hand to transform an act into an omission and vice versa. If I starve a child to death by refusing to feed it, I should expect a frosty reception to my submission at my murder trial that I was only omitting to do something. And there are various thought experiments devised by philosophers that seek to indicate that there is no distinction of substance between acts and omissions.

I would almost forget about Ida Durbin. But a sin of omission, if indeed that's what it was, can be like the rusty head of a hatchet buried in the heartwood of a tree -- it eventually finds the teeth of a whirling saw blade.

There are no composite characters or events in this book. I occasionally omitted people and events, but only when that omission had no impact on either the veracity or the substance of the story.

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

What you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

This is part of a pattern in our textbooks: anything bad in America history happened anonymously.

I feel very, very upset that, when it came time for me to get an Academy Award, that I didn't especially thank Clint Eastwood.

What the glorious retellings of the history of Irgun and Lehi often omit is the Polish connection.

Another vast omission is my failure to have quietly collapsed the Soviet Union and swept the rubble offstage when nobody was looking.

The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.

This must have been how it all began with Chymes," sighed Jack. "A small omission on one case, an 'embellishment' on the next. The question is not about what's best but what's right. Chymes had confused the two and compromised not only his own integrity but that of the police—and the due process of law.

For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text?

Cuando hay que hacer lo contrario de mi voluntad, no lo hago, ocurra lo que ocurra; tampoco hago mi voluntad, porque soy débil. Me abstengo de actuar: dado que toda mi debilidad es para la acción, toda mi fuerza es negativa, y todos mis pecados son de omisión, raramente de comisión.

I was so stressed in the closet. In an interview, I was scared they were going to ask me about a crush, or the type of girl I liked, or whatever it was. And I was going to have to lie by omission. It was always in the back of my mind.