Omni Quotes

#1. Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.

Christopher Hitchens

#2. There are cases when I can make myself better off by restricting my future choices and commit myself to a specific course of action.

Richard Thaler

#3. Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#4. The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-present, a plague, a devastation, an inescapable verdict.

Sam Vaknin

#5. Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#6. When Ellen Datlow was running the fiction at 'Omni' in the late '80s and into the '90s, I had a subscription. It was one of two subscriptions I'd saved for, the other being 'Spider-Man.' And they each opened my mind and my heart in wonderful ways.

Stephen Graham Jones

#7. Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#8. Each one of us should lead a life stirring enough to start a movement.

Max Lucado

#9. Pardon the plug, but what I like most about Toronto is Metro Morning's audience. I think it's got to be the most multi-faceted, multi-lingual, omni-curious collection of plugged-in people I've ever encountered.

Andy Barrie

#10. I feel so lucky to have found two other, now three other musicians, that I can absolutely communicate with musically and believe in what they're doing almost 100% of the time. I've talked to a few [other] people in bands and that just isn't always the case.

Theresa Wayman

#11. We're all vulnerable, and it's all hackable. If someone wants you and has targeted you, you can be taken down, and that fact is really scary.

Seth Gordon

#12. To feed on death is to become food for death. To live by other's pain is to become a prey for pain. So has decreed the omni-will. Know that and choose your course !

Mikhail Naimy

#13. Playing dress up begins at age 5 and never really ends.

Kate Spade

#14. Jo? Look at me. I'm about to do something really f**king stupid. When I do this, I need you to remember three words for me. Omni rosae spina." Thorn
"Every rose has its thorn?" Jo
"Good, you understand Latin. Yes. Commit those words to memory in the event I lose control. Okay?" Thorn

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.

Edward Gibbon

#16. The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.

Marshall McLuhan

#17. I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.

Charles Portis

#18. Omni is not a science magazine. It is a magazine about the future ... Omni was sui generis. Although there were plenty of science magazines over the years ... Omni was the first magazine to slant all its pieces toward the future. It was fun to read and gorgeous to look at.

Ben Bova

#19. Light is undiminishable, eternal and omni-present. In every religion that existed these qualities have been recognized as divine. So that we are forced to the conclusion that light, actual sensible light, is indeed the direct vehicle of divinity: it is the consciousness of God.

Rodney Collin

#20. The biggest deception of our digital age may be the lie that says we can be omni-competent, omni-informed, and omni-present. We cannot be any of these things. We must choose our absence, our inability, and our ignorance - and choose wisely.

Kevin DeYoung

#21. Opportunity is infinite; once you know that, opportunity is omni-existent.

Mark Victor Hansen

#22. The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubt.

Leah Wilson

#23. When Lars first held her, his heart melted over her like butter on warm bread, and he would never get it back. When mother and baby were asleep in the hospital room, he went out to the parking lot, sat in his Dodge Omni, and cried like a man who had never wanted anything in his life until now.

J. Ryan Stradal

#24. I was always scared to meet people. Scared or maybe lazy.

Charlie Lovett

#25. As the clutter of outrageous, fantastical photographs that today occupy Sandy Island's place on Google Earth suggests, Sandy Island's disappearance established it as a rebel base for the imagination, an innocent and an upstart that managed to escape the vast technologies of omni-knowledge.

Anonymous

#26. My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

Charles Bukowski

#27. The maxim is, that whatever can be affirmed (or denied) of a class, may be affirmed (or denied) of everything included in the class. This axiom, supposed to be the basis of the syllogistic theory, is termed by logicians the dictum de omni et nullo.

John Stuart Mill

#28. In omni adversitate fortunae, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

Boethius

#29. But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
[Lat., Sed profecto Fortuna in omni re dominatur; ea res cunctas ex lubidine magis, quam ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque.]

Sallust