The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not. — Abraham Verghese 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 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 particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer’s passivity. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
“A lie of omission was much simpler than admitting to yourself you were going against the wishes of the person you idolised.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
An omission can also form the Actus Reus of a crime. An omission is the failure to act when one has a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
“A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.” — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the… — Isabel Paterson 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
Whereas, according to the declaration of that true man of the world Talleyrand, the use of language is to conceal the thoughts;… — Michael Faraday 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. It is the… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
I would rather commit a sin of commission than a sin of omission, and the evangelical community is exactly the opposite. The… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
Every person in the world is by nature a slave to sin. The world, by nature, is held in sin's grip. What… — Joel Beeke Copy Share Image
Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets. — William Faulkner 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
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
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
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
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
Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might… — Theodore Bikel 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
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
“Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
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