Quotes About Omission

Progressives control America's schools and text book industry and they dishonestly leave the ugliest parts of the collectivist story out.

What language the people here speak, or what name they give to the place, will not be recorded for posterity.

what makes a story unique is not necessarily the information in the story but what the writer chooses to put in or leave out.(pg. 146-147)

If someone does not believe in fairies, he does not need to teach his children 'There are no fairies'; he can omit to teach them the word 'fairy'.

Given the array of correspondents—Abiah Root, Mrs Holland, Sam Bowles, Maria Whitney, Mabel Todd herself and many minor figures—a distorting omission is the correspondence with Susan. Nowhere is she mentioned. It's a common temptation to editorial power to contrive a bias, sometimes in covert ways. Here the agenda is all too plain.

For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian??ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that unattainable by the highest art.

He who knows what best to omit is the best teacher.

I leave a lot out when I tell the truth. The same when I write a story.

Less has booked himself into a Christian retreat center. He has nothing personal against Christ; though raised Unitarian—with its glaring omission of Jesus and a hymnal so unorthodox that it was years before Less understood "Accentuate the Positive" was not in the Book of Common Prayer—

To write a diary is to make a series of choices about what to omit, what to forget. A memorable sandwich, an unmemorable flight of stairs. A memorable bit of conversation surrounded by chatter that no one records.

Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.

Im ganzen Buch kommt nicht einmal das Wort Corned Beef vor.

We lose our souls not only by the evil we do but also by the good we leave undone.

Sometimes I regret that the wonderful children's stories that have been made into movies were - people no longer read 'The Wizard of Oz'; they think they know the story. They don't know anything about all the bits and pieces they had to leave out.

There were many things a man might think he should be told when a woman agreed to marry him. She had choose not to mention several of them

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

He that sinneth, sinneth unto himself. He that is unjust, hurts himself, in that he makes himself worse than he was before. Not he only that committeth, but he also that omitteth something, is oftentimes unjust.

IV. He that sinneth, sinneth unto himself. He that is unjust, hurts himself, in that he makes himself worse than he was before. Not he only that committeth, but he also that omitteth something, is oftentimes unjust.

There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.

Things, the word she used when whatever it stood for was too distasteful or filthy or horrible to pass her lips. A successful life for her was one that avoided things, excluded things. Such things do not happen to nice women.

I have omitted to give a detail of his words, from a notion that they would not interest the reader as they did me, and not because I have forgotten them.

Guys, we're so screwed. The women know we didn't go hunting. (Kyrian) You think? What idiot came up with that lie? (Zarek) I'm not an idiot. And it's not like I lied. I just omitted what exactly we were hunting and where we were doing it. (Talon) Like your wives wouldn't know better? When was the last time Mr. Armani hunted something that didn't have a price tag on it? Oh, and the loafers and trousers are perfect camouflage. (Zarek)

To regret your sins of commission as much as your sins of omission is to prove yourself a most unworthy sinner.

There were other, messier details in the story, but we didn't need to go into those now, and here.