Implication Quotes

57 quotes by 54 authors

The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say. — Isobelle Carmody
The implication that there was something wrong with the war plan is amusing. — Donald Rumsfeld
The argument that 'boys will be boys' actually carries the profoundly anti-male implication that we should expect bad behavior from boys and men. The assumption… — Jackson Katz
The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition… — Henry James
We may be thankful that frightened civil authorities ... have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession and use of… — John Steinbeck
But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell.… — Flannery O'Connor
Phonogram was explicitly about our world. Itâ€™s a fantasy which is happening around us all, unnoticed except for those whoâ€™ve fallen into its world. In… — Kieron Gillen
Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from the social and… — Jacques Barzun
I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same,… — John Shelton Reed
In any film there's always a historical implication. — Oliver Stone
In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its… — Andrew Coyle Bradley
People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make you believe you… — Michel Gondry
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without… — Archie Shepp
Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we are copyists in subject or treatment, or both, whereas the common qualities that establish the relationship result… — Walter J. Phillips
The primary implication is that we're going to combine our intelligence with computers. We're going to make ourselves smarter. By the 2030s, they will literally… — Judy Woodruff
If a betting game among a certain number of participants I played long enough, eventually one player will have all the money. If there is… — William Eckhardt
The question should not be 'What would Jesus do?' but rather, more dangerously, 'What would Jesus have me do?' The onus is not on Jesus… — Peter J. Gomes
The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control? — James Hillman
The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling… — Frances O'Grady

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