Quotes About Omission

At times, God's history seems to operate on an entirely different plane than ours...Exodus identifies by name the two Hebrew midwives who helped save Moses' life, but it does not bother to record the name of the Pharaoh ruling Egypt (an omission that has baffled scholars ever since).

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But I also know that you can lie not only by what you say but what you don't say.

Because deception requires both bold lies and lies of omission, it stains the soul, muddies the conscience, blurs the vision, and puts you at risk of headlong descent into greater darkness. As a boy, I could not have put

in my arrogance I had omitted to make proper sacrifice—for

It's part of your job always as an editor: you always have to drop stuff.

In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay.

Ne resta una di cui non parli mai.» "Marco Polo chinò il capo. "«Venezia,» disse il Kan. "Marco sorrise. «E di che altro credevi che ti parlassi?» "L'imperatore non batté ciglio. «Eppure non ti ho mai sentito fare il suo nome.»

There are many ways to tell a story, and if I've learned anything as a therapist, it's that most people are what therapists call "unreliable narrators." That's not to say that they purposely mislead. It's more that every story has multiple threads, and they tend to leave out the strands that don't jibe with their perspectives.

Stating a truth, but leaving out a greater truth.

By doing nothing, you did everything. By taking no responsibility, you bear all responsibility.

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing

What we don't include is as important as what we do include.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

All experienced writers know the key to great writing isn't in what they say; it's in what they don't say. The more we cut out, the better the screenplay or book.

Forgive me for for all the things that i did, but mostly for all the things i didn't do

Señor, perdona todos mis pecados y, especialmente, los de omisión".

had told Rocky an odd version of this story; little truths had appeared, but the girl had deliberately left out the part that showed the true train wreck. She had deliberately orchestrated the tale for a purpose.

What I don't write is as important as what I write.

And this one thing at least is certain; whatever history teaches, whatever it omits, whatever it exaggerates or extenuates, whatever it says and unsays, at least the Christianity of history is not Protestantism. If ever there were a safe truth, it is this.

Lies of omission count as lies, sweetie—they can be the worst ones.

When the lies of omission unravel, so does the story.

Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.