I think if you don't say something it's lying by omission. I personally think it's immoral. — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior. — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin, That lays eggs under your skin. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I do believe in [Robert] Bresson's method of creation through omission, not through addition. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
“Even when the elephant leaves the room, there is a massive amount of dung.” — Wyatt Pringle Jr 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
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
The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important',… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." p 533” — Abraham Verghese 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
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
There is a terrible blindness in the love that wants only to accommodate. It's not only to do with omissions and half-truths.… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
My father is a liar and so am I. But I’m going to stop. I have to stop. I will tell you… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
He, then, that would really, thoroughly, and acceptably mortify any disquieting lust, let him take care to be equally diligent in all… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Even Avataras, saints, and sages have to undergo the ordeal of suffering, for they take upon themselves the burden of sins of… — Sarada Devi 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
States kill when they apply the death penalty, when they send their people to war, or when they carry out extra-judicial or… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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 (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
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 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
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
I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
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