Quotes About Implication

Assume makes an ass out of you and me.

It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This makes for a web-like interest....

We're in different beds but we have the same dream." Li smiled. Cao had reversed the Chinese proverb of "different dreams in the same bed." The implication of the saying was that no two people could fully trust each other. Even a husband and wife who'd slept beside each other for fifty years had different dreams.

You can say a lot of things to someone while being pretty clear between the lines.

Sometimes," Perry said, "saying nothing can be your strongest weapon.") Juliet, and perhaps Juliet alone, had begun to sense Godfrey's impatience. She had learned to read between the lines. But wasn't that where the most important things were said?

my main objection to Mr. Graham's analogy was the implication that this 'dignity' was something one possessed or did not by a fluke of nature; and if one did not self-evidently have it, to strive after it would be as futile as an ugly woman trying to make herself beautiful.

A]nger in its pure state is the measure of the way we are implicated in the world and made vulnerable through love in all its specifics: a daughter, a house, a family, an enterprise, a land or a colleague.

The boy doesn't wink, but he gives me the kind of smile that goes with one.

'Almost' can be a polite way of saying something definitely. It withholds the obvious and dangles it just long enough.

Silence is an easy habit. But it doesn't come naturally. Silence has to be cultivated, enforced by implication and innuendo, looks and glances, hints of dark consequence. Silence is greedy. It insists upon its own necessity. It transcends generations.

Nothing always means something.

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

Only after Satan had exposed the evil in creation—and, by implication, in the Creator—could honesty and healing begin.

Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there.'

No response is a response.

The frame through which I viewed the world changed too, over time. Greater than scene, I came to see, is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.

The implication was that either the people in the room needed to change their areas of knowledge and expertise or people themselves needed to be changed

clear implication is that the failure to accept, protect, and love a child—or, what is worse, the active harming of a child—would preclude real contact with Jesus.

Hemos cerrado Al Watan por el reportaje sobre el presidente —me comunicó—. El redactor fue detenido por otra cosa… sí, está detenido.» Lo están interrogando. También hemos cerrado Al Istiqlal. Han estado implicados en un delito de desinformación.»

It is only with very large masses indeed that light-cone tilting can be directly observed; whereas its actual presence in very tiny amounts in bodies as small as specks of dust is a clear-cut implication of Einstein's theory.

There is no sadness and no cruelty in that gaze; it is a gaze without adjectives, it is only, completely, a gaze which neither judges you nor appeals to you; it posits you, implicates you; makes you exist. But this creative gesture is endless; you keep on being born, you are sustained, carried to the end of a movement which is one of infinite origin, source, and which appears in an eternal state of suspension.

No one talked, but they all said plenty.

The implication is that the people of God were lost and that God had to do something—as he had always done—to intervene and set them back on the right track. But there was a difference this time. This was the last time. This was the last chance.

Communication is not so much about what you say, as what you don't say.