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Quotes About Suggestion

Are you at work? I asked. Not precisely, but that's a good suggestion....
~ Kat Richardson
No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.
~ Napoleon Hill
When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it.
~ Chinua Achebe
It's not witch-crafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!
~ January Jones
Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
~ Tariq Ramadan
Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
~ Robert Frost
[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave out as what you put in.
~ Alec Soth
That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.
~ Frank O'Hara
What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.
~ John Ruskin
Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The lives of all of us have been moulded largely by induction through suggestion.
~ William Walker Atkinson
For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.
~ Bernard Katz
not. Both Mom and I had read it when it came out in 1999 and had recommended it to each other simultaneously. In
~ Will Schwalbe
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
~ William F. Buckley (Jr.)
As the writer of the lyric of the song 'God's Country,' I am outraged by the suggestion that somehow I am connected with, believe in, or am sympathetic with Communist or totalitarian philosophy.
~ Yip Harburg
All good writing leaves something unexpressed.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
I would never advise shooing away a good idea.
~ Phoebe Stone, Romeo Blue
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.
~ Marion LeRoy Burton
Forgive me for using the term 'fat little brother'. It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don't you think? I'm doing this for the gentleman's health.
~ Fidel Castro
Si, the speed limit sign said 35. Your Goin' 55." -Sadie Robertson"Oh, that's just a suggestion.
~ Si Robertson
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
~ Russell Page
Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit
~ Doris Day
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
~ Edgar Allan Poe