Quotes About Omissions

#1. But isn't that the way it is with memory? Give it enough time and it will become worn down and covered in a patina of self-serving omissions.

Jason Mott

#2. Though pundits and politicians, weary of the story, are happy to omit facts about voting systems and their private contractors running our public elections, such omissions impair voters and democracy itself.

Mimi Kennedy

#3. Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.

Jonathan Swift

#4. Nothing strong can be built on a foundation of lies and omissions.

Isabel Allende

#5. Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#6. Elephants have a theory of mind - they can think into the head of another elephant and infer their knowledge of the world, including errors and omissions of knowledge. That puts them above all but a handful of species - a few primates, some very smart birds and cetaceans.

Alastair Reynolds

#7. The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end.

Octavio Paz

#8. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
From Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese

#9. In fact, most of the changes found in early Christian manuscripts have nothing to do with theology or ideology. Far and away the most changes are the result of mistakes pure and simple slips of the pen, accidental omissions, inadvertent additions, misspelled words, blunders of one sort or another.

Bart D. Ehrman

#10. Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture of reality by bending facts, mischaracterizing the words of others, ignoring or denying crucial evidence, or just 'spinning a yarn' - by making things up.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

#11. I did write a number of reports on my political experiences, but there were many omissions, and I feel bad about that because it was work that was interesting and had I written more about it, it could have been useful.

Grace Paley

#12. Reality does not easily give up meaning; it's the biographer's job to clobber it into submission. You're meant not only to tame it but to extract substance, to identify cause and axiomatic effect. You subsist on the tactical omissions, the hollow words, the oddly unconnected dots.

Stacy Schiff

#13. There is a terrible blindness in the love that wants only to accommodate. It's not only to do with omissions and half-truths. It implants a lack of being in the speaker and robs the self of an identity without which it is impossible for one to grow close to another.

Alexander Theroux

#14. My father is a liar and so am I.
But I'm going to stop. I have to stop.
I will tell you my story and I will tell it straight. No lies, no omissions.
That's my promise.
This time I truly mean it.

Justine Larbalestier

#15. My response is being written with ink and paper in the glorious tradition of our ancestors and then transcribed by Ms. Vliegenthart into a series of 1s and 0s to travel through the insipid web which has lately ensnared our species, so I apologize for any errors or omissions that may result. "'Given

John Green

#16. If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.

John Dos Passos

#17. Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.

Gautama Buddha

#18. Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

William Faulkner

#19. Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.

Gautama Buddha

#20. The people I knew, even the people I loved, did not always get things right, and they accumulated acts and omissions that lessened their sense of sureness.

Kadiatou Diallo

#21. Omissions are sins, and must come into judgment, and particularly the contempt and neglect of the seals of the covenant;

Matthew Henry

#22. Space and Time! Two minor omissions that no one is likely to notice," grumbled Newton.

Neal Stephenson

#23. I think that for humans, the most regrettable of omissions, along with unshed tears and unexamined lives, is untold stories, the things not shared, the lost opportunity to be honest about oneself and tender toward others.

Martha M. Moravec

#24. Please. Marriage is made of lies. Kind ones, mostly. Omissions. If you give voice to the things you think every day about your spouse, you'd crush them to paste. She never lied. Just never said.

Lauren Groff

#25. Omissions are not accidents.

Marianne Moore

#26. I have found that those who try to shield us from the truth, regardless of the reason, end up doing the greatest harm. Truth alone sets you free, not lies and omissions.

Jessica Dotta

#27. She didn't understand, I hope to God she never understands what I do, what I am. To be dammed by the darkness that lives inside me.
To be saved by her love.
No more half-truths. No more omissions.

Linnea Sinclair

#28. Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun clarity lest their work is considered trivial.

Edsger Dijkstra

#29. History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.

Tansy Rayner Roberts

#30. The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his predecessor, the refuse of contempt, or the omissions of negligence.

Samuel Johnson

#31. It has been my experience that law enforcement reports are littered with fabrications, inaccuracies, omissions, fraud, fantasies and willful blindness.

Steven Magee

#32. It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge. Good men are afraid of the guilt of omissions ( I Samuel 12).

Matthew Henry

#33. We tend to think that people are more to blame for their acts than for their omissions.

Peter Singer

#34. What happens is never unpredictable: there are always breaches, carelessness, incompetence, omissions, which have not prevented the occurrence.

Zygmunt Bauman

#35. The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they knew about difficulties of the Mormon past, but have offered to the Saints instead a mixture of platitudes, half-truths, omissions, and plausible denials.

D. Michael Quinn

#36. All these people helped make this book possible. But let me make one thing clear: If there are any errors or omissions in this book, these people are not responsible. In the end, there is only one person responsible for what I write, and that person, of course, is: Donald Trump.

Dave Barry

#37. What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

Simone De Beauvoir

#38. He manages a sad smile. An omission is not the same thing as a lie, Miss Bishop. It's a manipulation.

Victoria Schwab