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omission challenges would-be
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
omission self identity
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
omission nonfiction sin
In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior. Elizabeth McCracken
omission world action
The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not. Abraham Verghese
omission sun danger
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. William Shakespeare
omission sublime poet
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. George Eliot
omission evil wickedness
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil. Plutarch
omission missing too-much
You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can omit, but how you are going to do the grammar of the omission, how you make things continue to work when there's something missing. It's your last chance to rewrite. Tom Stoppard
omission historical banking
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. Milton Friedman
evil
Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life Albert Schweitzer
evil giving fundamentals
Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world - that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me - is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.
evil fill filled food heart love poison
Love is your life, your friend, your relative, your food and your everything. Heart that is filled with love can never be polluted. Love is nectarine. Once you fill it in your heart, the poison of evil will have no place in it. Sathya Baba
evil hear
Look. See No Evil.... Hear No Evil.... and EVIL. Bob Dole
evil finds man mistrust
Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is indifferent to everything Johann Lavater
evil good
One does evil enough when one does nothing good
evil impulse moral teach wood
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. William Wordsworth
evil form hot piece
No one should form an acquaintance with one who has an evil character. A piece of coal, if it is hot burns, and if it's cold, blackens the hands.
evil held higher
When you put something out there like 'Don't Be Evil,' you get held to a higher standard,
wickedness shapes blunders
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness. A. J. P. Taylor
wickedness criminals weak
It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness. Edgar Rice Burroughs
wickedness folly
Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly. Jane Austen
wickedness uniting goodness
As all our wickedness consists in turning away from our Creator, so all our goodness consists in uniting ourselves with Him. Alphonsus Liguori
wickedness way surprise
To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly. Orson Scott Card
wickedness wonderful miserable
Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.
wickedness misery shame
Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.
wickedness intention
There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act. Marcus Tullius Cicero
wickedness world forget
All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting. Mark Buchanan