Quotes About Omission

All problems don't need to be solved. They can be ignored too.

And things go unsaid soon get forgotten

but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty, can lead to a premature certainty.

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.

A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.

To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.

Do not raise the head too high unless you want it to be omitted.

It is the nature of stories to leave out far more than they include.

We fixate on sins of commission: Don't do this, don't do that—and you're OK. But that is holiness by subtraction. And it's more hypocrisy than holiness! It's the sins of omission—what you would have, could have, and should have done — that break the heart of your heavenly Father.

Except Rebecca.

Fail #3: Ignoring

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

Gentlemen, include me out.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say

That was the problem with memory, the process of focusing on one thing necessarily required the exclusion of something else and sometimes the something else was the most important part.

they had completely forgotten to buy a postcard for Nutsawoo.

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

The public largely misunderstands the "fake news" issue. Newspapers rarely fib outright. Most "lies" are errors of omission or emphasis. There are no Fox stories saying blue states have lower divorce rates, nor are there MSNBC stories exploring the fact that many pro-choice Democrats, particularly religious ones, struggle with a schism between their moral and political beliefs on abortion.

That was it. I never bothered filling in the details. The details didn't matter.

So close. Yet not close enough that either had mentioned the other to her family—even to the point that my mother had not included her sister in her story of the Exposition. My

Eine ideale Lüge besteht aus der Aneinanderreihung verschiedener wahrer Versatzstücke, an denen man bestimmte Auslassungen vornimmt; im Grunde genommen setzt sie sich im Wesentlichen aus Auslassungen in Verbindung mit einigen wohldosierten Übertreibungen zusammen.

Una mentira ideal consiste en la yuxtaposición de diferentes elementos de verdad entre los cuales se efectúan algunas elipsis; de hecho está compuesta esencialmente de omisiones, a veces con algunas exageraciones bien dosificadas

The word miss has several meanings, so I decided to drop them all.

You can easily remember the effect but forget the main cause behind it.