Quotes About Omission

I accidentally skipped Sotaro.

I also know that what follows is far from the whole picture. It is not false modesty which prompts me to say so but simply an acute awareness of what I have not included. The faces and voices of all that I have left out crowd around me as I reach the end.

What, in the end, can we say about Rabbi Akiva? Throughout this book I have tried to keep in mind the words of the novelist Margaret Atwood in the epigraph: "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.

All of my plays are about people who have been marginalized... erased from the public record.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Despite the Saint-Nectaire, this analysis would be absolutely reasonable if it did not sin grievously by omission

To write a diary is to make a series of choices about what to omit, what to forget.

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.

So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is. Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

Tolstoy carelessly neglects to include a boat race.

There are several accounts, written or deposed, by the guards, executioners and inhumers of the Romanovs. One of the inhumers said that he could 'die in peace because he had squeezed the Empress's -----.'* *Pipes's note reads: 'Deposition by P. V. Kukhtenko in Solokov Dossier I, dated September 8, 1918; omission in the original.

I imagined at the time that he had some strong reason for not alluding to it, but he soon dispelled the idea by coming round to the subject of his own accord.

T]he real lie that advertising tells is not so much in what it shows, but in what it leaves out.

And this wasn't lying, not really. It was leaving out.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

In real life, you don't get to choose what you forget.

El "etcétera" es el descanso de los sabios y la excusa de los ignorantes.

What has been said is often less important than what has not been said.

I gave them most of the options, but left out Bitcoin mining. Because not only would the explanation of why that uses huge amount of power have taken about three hours, but also because I was a bit hazy on the details myself.

I'm a big fan of the lie of omission.

I'm a big fan of the lie of omission.

I sometimes leave out details like that. It's more convenient for me. In truth, I wanted her to read my mind so I didn't have to stoop to the womanly art of articulation.

The historical resentments and patterns that can demolish a marriage usually start out as something seemingly unimportant. An assumption here. An accommodation there. An omission, an unclear boundary, a selfish act, an inconsideration, etc. These little things, these seemingly tiny tremors, have a rolling aftershock that can gain significant magnitude over time.