Best Omitting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern: for they themselves cannot even remember the time when in their eyes justice appeared preferable to expediency, the happiness of others to self-interest, or the welfare of a State to the advancement of a party.”

Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

“By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either doing a thing or omitting it, without the person's becoming liable to animadversion or censure from another, that is, in other words, without his incurring any degree of turpitude or guilt. Now in this sense I affirm that man has no rights, no discretionary power whatever.”

Men Persons Rights Atheism Subjects Becoming Degrees Understood Guilt Positive Atheism Employed Discretion Liable Censure Incurring Omitting

Book:An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness

“Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.”

Mind Reason Might Water Half Sea Atheism Positive Atheism Gates Ridicule Apostles Keepers Jest Profane Apostolic Omitting

Author:Charles Bradlaugh

“The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.”

Mean Important Jobs Editors Simplify Important Jobs Omitting

Author:Keith Rabois

“The first thing that editor does is they take out a red pen, or nowadays you go online, and they start striking things. Basically eliminating things, the biggest task of an editor is to simplify, simplify, simplify and that usually means omitting things.”

Firsts Mean Doe Red Tasks Online Pens Editors Simplify Eliminating Omitting

Author:Keith Rabois

“My theory is that, just like with omitting a final comma in a list when not essential for meaning, publishers are trying to save paper and ink or pixels on-screen.”

Trying Theory Essentials Paper Finals Screens Lists Publishers Ink Pixels Omitting

Author:Bill Walsh

“Virtues, of ... Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.”

Justice Virtue Duty Benefits Injury Moral Perfection Omitting

Book:Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings on Politics, Economics, and Virtue

Source: Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings on Politics, Economics, and Virtue

“Traveling fast over complex technical terrain requires a high level of technical ability and the endurance to support it. These two quite divergent capabilities need to be developed over years of practice. Omitting either limits your potential.”

Needs Years Two Ability Levels Practice Support Limits Complexes Endurance Capability High Level Divergent Terrain Omitting

Author:Steve House

“The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure.”

Matter Serious Consequence Concern Plant Spending Administration Fallen Senate Committees Severe Funding Chairman Capitol Domes Omitting

Author:Charles Schumer

“Liar's such a strong word. I prefer to think of it as me omitting some of the details" - Alex”

Thinking Strong Details Liars Alex Strong Words Omitting

Author:Jessica Sorensen

“You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.”

Experience Tribulation Parentheses Omitting

Book:MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

“In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude”

Attitude Gratitude Aids Positive Attitude Omitting

Author:Marya Mannes

“I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. That would be claiming too much. But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming . . . and a little mad.”

Littles Ideas Play Would Be Success Study Too Much Cutting Essentials Mathematics Mad Historical Profound Math Mathematical Charming Constructs Simile Ophelia Omitting

Book:Science and the Modern World

Source: Science and the Modern World

“In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.”

Father Views Tradition Constitution Republic Tides Skepticism Secular Founding Refreshing Freethinker Free Thought American Tradition American Constitution Omitting Engulfing

Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

“It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.”

Ifs Inspirational Opportunity Kindness Safe True Words Omitting

Author:John Ruskin

“But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.”

Men Life Is Animal Sun Pure Equal Bravery Noble Graves Invisible Flames Live By Ashes Ceremony Splendid Pompous Infamy Nativity Nature Life Omitting

Author:Thomas Browne

“Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.”

Half Generosity Meanness Stinginess Omitting

Book:Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

“The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict, enjoy their own dehumanization as something human, as the joy of warmth. The total interconnectedness of the culture industry, omitting nothing, is one with total social delusion.”

Humans Film Joy Culture Social Enjoy Subjects Industry Conflict Function Delusion Warmth Transforming Interconnectedness Dehumanization Omitting

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life