Implicit Quotes

114 quotes by 106 authors

For a long time I believed the opposite of passion was death. I was wrong. Passion and death are implicit, one in the other. Past… — Marya Hornbacher
The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is… — Julio Cortazar
And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an… — David Foster Wallace
Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity) — Dave Eggers
Maybe I was naÃ¯ve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed… — Jodi Picoult
So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate? — Jodi Picoult
Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the… — Eduardo Galeano
There is always the threat of tomorrow's treachery, or next year's treachery, or the treachery implicit in all the tomorrows beyond that. — Tim O'Brien
Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious. — Siri Hustvedt
There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original… — Mark Epstein
A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily… — Alain de Botton
Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass. — Lawrence Durrell
In her presence, I was reminded again of why I was an anoretic: fear. Of my needs, for food, for sleep, for touch, for simple… — Marya Hornbacher
Life is two things. Life is morality â€“ life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw.… — H.G. Wells
He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in… — Angela Carter
In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation on this planet… — Wole Soyinka
All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy… — Paul Fussell
The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us — Octavio Paz
We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer… — Thomas Kuhn

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