Omitted Quotes
38 quotes by 36 authors
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The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell…
— Andy Rooney
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There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have…
— Rene Descartes
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There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life…
— William Shakespeare
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There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin…
— Judith Martin
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So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from…
— Cormac McCarthy
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We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much…
— Charles Dickens
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Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment.
— Richard Matheson
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Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception. A lovely warm…
— Jonathan Franzen
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We will never regret the kind words spoken or the affection shown. Rather, our regrets will come if such things are omitted from our relationships…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Guys, we’re so screwed. The women know we didn’t go hunting. (Kyrian) You think? What idiot came up with that lie? (Zarek) I’m not an…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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All of the Ten Commandments that are good were old; all that were new art foolish. If Jehovah had been civilized he would have left…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever…
— Adrienne Rich
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Like a feather in a dust storm, with no direction The Raven flies through life, helpless and omitted Until night declares and the wind expires.…
— Jessica Sorensen
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Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.
— Thomas Bowdler
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I omitted nothing to persuade Garibaldi to drop his mad scheme.
— Cavour
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The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously magnified…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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William Shakespeare once said: 'There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted all the…
— Haley James Scott
Who Wrote These Omitted Quotes
36 authors contributed a total of 38 Omitted Quotes, led by these top contributors: