I do believe in [Robert] Bresson's method of creation…

Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of…

— Ayn Rand

If there is a Creator-God, it has used methods of creation that are indistinguishable from nature, it has declined to make itself known for…

— David G. McAfee

Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost…

— Robert Southey

Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the…

— Primo Levi

Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new…

— William Osler

The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do…

— Aldous Huxley

“I would almost forget about Ida Durbin. But a sin of omission, if indeed that's what it was, can be like the rusty head…

— James Lee Burke

It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing oversights or…

— John Negroponte

He, then, that would really, thoroughly, and acceptably mortify any disquieting lust, let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of…

— John Owen

Ingratitude is the frost that nips the flower even as it opens, that shrivels the generous apple on the branch, that freezes the fountain…

— Ann Wroe

Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have…

— Anonymous

Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely where the…

— Konrad Zuse

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any…

— Theodore Bikel

I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio…

— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

— Glen Duncan