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Quotes About Implication

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.
~ Robert Jordan
Greater than scene 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.
~ Eudora Welty
why do we huddle together In a horrid amity of misfortune? why should we be implicated, brought in and brought together?
~ T.S. Eliot
This was their way; a lot was said by saying nothing. She
~ Justin Cronin
Then, I said to myself: 'HISTORY IS HUMAN NATURE—; TO SAY I AM GUILTY IS TO ACCEPT IMPLICATION IN THE HUMAN RACE. . .' —Now, for months and months, I have found ANOTHER MAN in me—; HE is NOT me—; I am afraid of him …
~ Frank Bidart
To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text
~ Henry James
The" thing was the thing that implied the greatest number of other things of the sort he had had to tackle; and it was queer of course, but so it was—the implication here was complete. Not
~ Henry James
My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.
~ Gillian Flynn
I don't want a headline saying 'Kennedy suggests this or implies that.'
~ Charles Kennedy
I think that the implication of King's assassination has not been fully appreciated.
~ Henry Louis Gates
He's assuming. And as the man once told me himself: assume makes an ass out of u and me.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Janine looks at her watch. "Janine looks at her watch," Daniel says. "She is bored with the old writer." Janine smiles. "Strike the second sentence. Reader will know. Show, don't tell.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
First we guess it. Then we – now don't laugh, that's really true – then we compute the consequences of the guess to see what, if this is right, if this law that we guessed is right, to see what it would imply. And then we compare the computation results to nature, or we say compare to experiment or experience, compare it directly with observations to see if it works. If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.
~ Brian Cox
That word 'prodigy' has such a derogatory implication. It is used to describe people who are forced to play a lot of concerts very early, people whose audience comes because of their youth, people who are exploited. None of the above really applied to me.
~ Hilary Hahn
'Awkward' implies both solidarity and implication. Nobody is exempt.
~ Elif Batuman
Where there's fire, there's smoke.
~ Carol Kendall
When you assume, you make an ass out of u and me.
~ Cecily von Ziegesar
There is within this worldview a terrifying personal implication: that I myself have no fixed identity but am, like the rest of reality, essentially fluid—essentially inessential.
~ Thomas Cahill
Do you know what this dress is for?' Miss Waverly whispered. Eva shook her head. 'Seduction!' The word disturbed Eva; it was laden with the murky enticements of sin, dangerous moral ambiguity and the certain promise of future remorse. But even worse than that was the implication of mysterious skills that remained beyond her comprehension.
~ Kathleen Tessaro
The unspoken words trembled in the air.
~ Iris Murdoch
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
~ Walter Wine hell
Where more is meant than meets the ear.
~ John Milton
I remember everything, even the dates. But I don't want others to remember the details, just the image.
~ Gloria Grahame
She was English, with all the characteristics that word implies.
~ Susan Kay