Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“Analyze and correct your past mistakes before they paralyze your future! An undiscovered error will always crave for repetition. Kick out errors;… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission. I suffered for years because I was scared to… — Ellen Page 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
Throughout the industrial era, economists considered manufactured capital - money, factories, etc. - the principal factor in industrial production, and perceived natural… — Paul Hawken 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
Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity;… — Gerald M. Loeb Copy Share Image
Errors of omission, lost opportunities, are generally more critical than errors of commission. Organizations fail or decline more frequently because of what… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
In fact, most of the changes found in early Christian manuscripts have nothing to do with theology or ideology. Far and away… — Bart D. Ehrman 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
Because everybody lies. It's part of living in society. Don't get me wrong-I think it's necessary. The last thing anyone wants is… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
Can anybody tell me why reporters, in making mention of lady speakers, always consider it to be necessary to report, fully and… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The effect on men has been very bad, too, of the omission of women's history, because men have been given the impression… — Gerda Lerner 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
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
Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lies of omission or lies of commission;… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they… — D. Michael Quinn Copy Share Image
One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness -… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can… — Tom Stoppard 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
“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
He, then, that would mortify any disquieting lust: let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of obedience, and… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by… — John Pawson Copy Share Image
Pardon, we beseech Thee, all our offences of omission and commission; and grant that in all our thoughts, words, and actions, we… — Timothy Pickering Copy Share Image
Since those don’t hit financial reports, the opportunities you had but didn’t accept, most people don’t bother thinking about them very much.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“I would almost forget about Ida Durbin. But a sin of omission, if indeed that's what it was, can be like the… — James Lee Burke 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
I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost… — Stuart Dodgson Collingwood 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 chess world is obligated to organize a match between the champion of the world and the winner of this Carlsbad tournament… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
Ingratitude is the frost that nips the flower even as it opens, that shrivels the generous apple on the branch, that freezes… — Ann Wroe Copy Share Image
If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us… — William James Copy Share Image