It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin, That lays eggs under your skin. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior. — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer’s passivity. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I think if you don't say something it's lying by omission. I personally think it's immoral. — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I do not like [in the new Federal Constitution] the omission of a Bill of Rights providing clearly and without the aid… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
I did write a number of reports on my political experiences, but there were many omissions, and I feel bad about that… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless,… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“Making love - having sex - with James had been like discovering a lie of omission. She had become more aware of… — Delphine Dryden Copy Share Image
You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share Image
Repentance is powerful spiritual medicine. There are few spiritual ills it will not cure. Each sin we leave behind through our faith… — Neil L. Andersen Copy Share Image
The (Laetrile) efficacy tests...clinically in humans..(by) the US NCI...were obviously conducted so that a negative result could be formulated. The limited number… — Hans Alfred Nieper Copy Share Image
Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
I am myself persuaded, on the basis of extensive study of the historical evidence, that... the severity of each of the contractions… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
All these people helped make this book possible. But let me make one thing clear: If there are any errors or omissions… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely… — Konrad Zuse Copy Share Image
The issue Fodor writes about is central to the psychology of perception, cognition, and action. It is the central issue for anyone… — Alvin Liberman Copy Share Image
The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw,… — Arthur Quinn Copy Share Image
“Like the absence of gender-specific terms such as glyany and androcracy from the vocabulary of historians, the systematic omission of women from… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
I do believe that the collapse of the traditional media is catastrophic for our democracy, but I wasn't about to mythologize it.… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The adolescent frequently supposes that she is breaking out of the confines of her mundane, schoolgirl existence simply in order to break… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
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