The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death,… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
When a miser contents himself with giving nothing, and saving what he has got, and is in other respects guilty of no… — Claude Adrien Helvetius 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
I do believe in [Robert] Bresson's method of creation through omission, not through addition. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“The last rule was to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so comprehensive, that I should be certain of omitting nothing.” — René Descartes Copy Share Image
The Bible speaks of the sense of commission, which is doing what you should not do, instead of omission, which is not… — Greg Laurie Copy Share Image
In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own… — Saint Augustine 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
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
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
“There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens… — Ernest Hemingway 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
Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands of the… — Alexander Hamilton 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
So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: "Ye shall be indifferent as to… — Mark Twain 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
“However, we all sin by omission. Therefore, we are all sinners in constant need of a 'Savior'." ~R. Alan Woods [2010]” — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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