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Quotes About Suggestion

We need him out of the kingdom," Snowflake suggested. "Or dead.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
If you do that, she can ride on my back," Tsunami suggested. She missed having the little SandWing come lean against her trustingly.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Drop the ceiling on his head?" Sky suggested. Wren gave him a look. "How is that the QUIET option, Sky?" "I don't know," he said. "One brick at a time?
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Clare offered a half-hearted suggestion. "Well, there are coaches I know who do one-on-one counseling." Bobby shook his head. "No, that doesn't usually work. It takes months and only isolates people. It seems like most of them just use it to prepare for their next job.
~ Patrick Lencioni
The idea for elephant-back safaris was initially that of the photographer, socialite, and Africa hand Peter Beard, who suggested to Moore in the 1980s that riding elephants through the bush was unprecedented and would be an incomparable safari.
~ Paul Theroux
Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.
~ Joseph Beuys
In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
That art is best which suggests most.
~ Austin O'Malley
I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. I really like what that suggests. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.
~ Jack O'Connell
Metaphorically speaking, some very bright people suggest that citizens of the twenty-first century will be best protected by masks and shields, while I prefer the image of a light saber.
~ David Brin
Water?" Garion suggested. "I'm thirsty, Garion, not dirty.
~ David Eddings
You're wearing that bow tie, after all. Isn't that rather an invitation to a young sir?
~ David Foster Wallace
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
~ Winston S. Churchill
I did not suggest this story of Mia coaching. It was a conclusion the Yale investigation brought up.
~ Woody Allen
A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
~ Christopher Lasch
The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages.
~ Christopher Morley
That's a hint of a whisper of a curl.
~ Unknown
Benjamin Franklin had another suggestion for the vice president: "His Superfluous Excellency.
~ Cokie Roberts
With the suggestion of a compromise Gawaine mustered up enough courage to speak. "What will you do if I surrender?" he asked. "Why, I'll eat you," said the dragon. "And if I don't surrender?" "I'll eat you just the same.
~ Heywood Broun
It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.
~ Hilaire Belloc
You should tell him, I say. Which is not bad advice, I think. Not advice I would take myself, but that doesn't necessarily make it bad.
~ Holly Black
Let's stop here,' Tiernan says, and Oak collapses gratefully into the snow. 'Wren has suggested we change clothes.' 'I do appreciate your commitment to use looking our best,' says the prince.
~ Holly Black
To one who had never made more than five thousand a year himself, it was inspiring to explain before dozens of popeyed and admiring morons how they could make ten thousand -- fifty thousand -- a million a year, and all this by the Wonder Power of Suggestion, by Aggressive Personality, by the Divine Rhythm, in fact by merely releasing the Inner Self-shine.
~ Unknown
It wasn't a suggestion that I was taking up too much of your life; that I was somehow blocking your view of better things. It was an invitation to banter.
~ Lisa Jewell