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.

Plutarch

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

Tom Stoppard

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.

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.

Chris Evert

I was labeled at a young age - Miss Unemotional, Miss Cool, and that would carry over to my press conferences.

Charles Osgood

It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism.

Dick Van Dyke

But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.

David Nicholls

I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.

David Nicholls

Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.

S. Hughes

She won't be missing a practice. And she wants to go see some events, but that probably will be after her event.

Anthony Baccam

Sitting out and missing the whole season was really frustrating, especially seeing the team wrestle and you can't wrestle.

Danny Coyne

When I got expelled, it opened up my eyes. It made me realize what I was missing and things I needed to be doing.

Walter Benjamin

I miss friends and family. If it weren't for visits from old friends and other African Americans I meet who come to Cuba, I'd probably be in some kind of time warp.

Dennis Potter

To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We ought not to be in too much of a hurry here to speak piously of God’s will and guidance. It is obvious, and it should not be ignored, that it is your own very human wills that are at work here, celebrating their triumph; the course that you are taking at the outset is one that you have chosen for yourselves…

Abdu'l Baha

Where there is love, nothing is too much trouble and there is always time.

A. J. Jacobs

The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

Charles Spurgeon

Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables

Bryce Courtenay

Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.

Benazir Bhutto

I know death comes. I've seen too much death, young death.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.