Quotes About Omission

O silêncio dos omissos é combustível para a vilania dos canalhas

Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.

There are some people that probably should be in the Hall of Fame, but they're not for some reason.

A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead.

It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'

I know pictures say a thousand words, but they also don't say millions of other words that need to be said.

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.

Include me out.

It was the second time that day that I stood looking at a space where a large thing wasn't where it was supposed to be.

The five dollars I gave her would never reach her. I knew that: because I wanted my class to think me good for giving it. Spiritual Pride the nuns called it, a Sin of Intention, sister to the Sin of Omission, which was the price for what you hadn't done but thought. Sometimes I prayed so hard for God to materialize at the foot of my bed it would start to happen; then I'd beg it to stop, and it would.

A white lie is not a lie at all. It is where you tell the truth but you do not tell all of the truth. This means that everything you say is a white lie because when someone says, for example, What do you want to do today? you say, I want to do painting with Mrs. Peters, but you don't say, I want to have my lunch and I want to go to the toilet and I want to go home after school and I want to play with Toby and I want to have my supper

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

I didn't obscure anything, I just left it out.

What had passed between Eleanor Harding and Mary Bold need not be told. It is indeed a matter of thankfulness that neither the historian nor the novelist hears all that is said by their heroes or heroines, or how would three volumes or twenty suffice!

When then the law has spoken in general terms, and there arises a case of exception to the general rule, it is proper, in so far as the lawgiver omits the case and by reason of his universality of statement is wrong, to set right the omission by ruling it as the lawgiver himself would rule were he there present, and would have provided by law had he foreseen the case would arise.

All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.

Et c'était simple de lui dire de s'asseoir ; quand on pense à tout ce qu'on pourrait faire et qu'on ne fait pas ! toutes les occasions qu'on laisse échapper ! on a pas l'idée, pas l'élan ; au lieu d'être ouvert on est fermé ; c'est ça le grand péché : le péché par omission.

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.)

we can say the beauty of the world is nearly absent in the Christian tradition. This is a terrible omission. How can Christianity claim the right to call itself catholic if the universe itself is absent within it?

I cannot at the moment recall any possible blunder which you have omitted. From His Last Bow

If it judges your conscience, then you are in some way guilty of it by action, words or omission.

To avoid hurting people needs constant vigilance. As one grows older one is less and less equal to the task. There are so many cruelties of omission.

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.

To make a single nation illustrate a principle, you must exaggerate much and you must omit much.