Omits Quotes

14 quotes by 12 authors

• He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what… — Charles Hodge
• Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the… — Lytton Strachey
• If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the… — Ernest Hemingway
• Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises. — Egon Friedell
• There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It… — Ernest Hemingway
• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) new Summary for Policymakers is a political document that downplays assessments of uncertainty from the scientific reports. It… — Steven F. Hayward
• The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of… — Antonio Machado
• The best propaganda omits rather than invents — Mason Cooley
• The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of… — Francis Bacon
• To understand a literary style, consider what it omits. — Mason Cooley
• The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the… — Tennessee Williams
• For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events… — Stefan Zweig
• The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it. — Bryant H. McGill
• One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes. — David Frum

Who Wrote These Omits Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 14 Omits Quotes as follows:

• 2 Omits Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
• 2 Omits Quotes by Mason Cooley
• 1 Omits Quote by Charles Hodge
• 1 Omits Quote by Lytton Strachey
• 1 Omits Quote by Egon Friedell
• 1 Omits Quote by Steven F. Hayward
• 1 Omits Quote by Antonio Machado
• 1 Omits Quote by Francis Bacon
• 1 Omits Quote by Tennessee Williams
• 1 Omits Quote by Stefan Zweig
• 1 Omits Quote by Bryant H. McGill
• 1 Omits Quote by David Frum