Hints Quotes

256 quotes by 229 authors

If it had been anything else, we would have said, 'People don't want us to do it. Forget it. Let's just leave it alone.' But… — Martin Fleischmann
A politician is not allowed to get too emotional in public, so what he does is drop subtle hints that, over time, cause the public… — Victor Wooten
The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be… — Garrison Keillor
A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must… — Henry David Thoreau
We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while the learning of… — Henry David Thoreau
We must be careful to avoid spiritual elitism. Everything we are and anything we possess as believers in Christ is a gift of grace. Pure… — Beth Moore
Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing? — Martin E. Marty
Churchmen are quick to defend religious freedom; lawyers were never so universally aroused as by President Roosevelt's Court bill; newspapers are most alert to civil… — Earl Warren
But at least if you hint and are rejected, the rejection is blurable rather than blistering. Whereas if you ask outright and are refused, the… — Anna Maxted
Speculation has been singularly fruitful as to what these markings on our next to nearest neighbor in space may mean. Each astronomer holds a different… — Percival Lowell
A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas, where… — Charles Dickens
There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning. — Josiah Royce
Yeah, I like working in television, a lot. I really enjoyed my time on 'Lost.' I like developing that hint of family with people. I… — Terry O'Quinn
I closed my eyes. The only things I knew about why Empty Ones worked the way we did was that we had room for extra… — Kiersten White
A cardinal rule of writing is never interrupt yourself to explain something. If you must bring up an obscure topic, drop informative hints about it… — Florence King
The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you. — Criss Jami
After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig. — Chinua Achebe
A few hints as to literary craftsmanship may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing! — Samuel Eliot Morison

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