Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edsger Dijkstra

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.

Alexander Theroux

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.

Elizabeth McCracken

In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.

Abraham Verghese

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

William Shakespeare

Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun.

George Eliot

What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.

Milton Friedman

I am myself persuaded, on the basis of extensive study of the historical evidence, that... the severity of each of the contractions - 1920-21, 1929-33, and 1937-38 - is directly attributable to acts of commission and omission by the Reserve authorities and would not have occurred under earlier monetary and banking arrangements.

Marianne Moore

Omissions are not accidents.

Myrtle Reed

Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.

Alexandra Fuller

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

Edward Halifax

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Granth Sahib

One who contemplates his own self is truly wise.

Chris Evert

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

Chris Evert

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

Chris Evans

I'm a big fan of working out on my own. I put my headphones on and I'm pretty good at self-motivating. At the end of the day, I enjoy it. Once I'm there and once I get going, I tend to love it, and I feel good.

Charles Spurgeon

Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .

Charles Spurgeon

When we come to the end of self we come to the beginning of Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.

Carlos Delgado

I feel like I have my identity back.

Elizabeth Blackwell

I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.

Deepak Chopra

Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

Lorenzo Meyer

The PRI is going to have a tremendous identity crisis. It's an internal cataclysm for them.

Scott Mitic

If we can stop those sales, we will have stopped identity theft as we know it.

Jeff Goldblum

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.

Frank Moloney

We don't have an identity as a team yet. We're a little lost.

Othella Harrington

We're kind of in that middle ground. We don't really have an identity yet.

Abhishek Bachchan

Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.