Quotes About Implication

But the problem with rules, he reflected, was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When in fact, most of the time there were simply ways.

And though the implication is that I am the sort who is always careful and preparing, I that that's not right, either' in fact I feel I have not really been living anywhere or anytime, not for the future and not in the past and not at all of-the-moment, but rather in a lonely dream of an oblivion, the nothing-of-nothing drift from one pulse beat to the next, which is really the most bloodless marking-out, automatic and involuntary. [pp. 320-321]

aun cuando hagamos silencio, sutilmente estamos diciendo algo.

Examenul testeaz? nu doar anduran?a, abilitatea ?i ?tiin?a, ci ?i voca?ia. Este de acod daimonul cu calea pe care ai ales-o? Este sufletul t?u cu adev?rat implicat acolo? Reu?ita la un examen poate fi o confirmare, iar e?ecul poate fi calea prin care daimonul ne spune c? nu suntem pe drumul cel bun.

would sign written statements implicating the others. Even my own

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

Consciousness is the most conspicuous obstacle to a comprehensive naturalism that relies only on the resources of physical science. The existence of consciousness seems to imply that the physical description of the universe, in spite of its richness and explanatory power, is only part of the truth, and that the natural order is far less austere than it would be if physics and chemistry accounted for everything. If we take this problem seriously, and follow out its implications

Filmmaking is not about what we see - it's a very misconceived notion; it's about what we don't see.

After I'd told her – the mall, the taxi, Cross stroking my hair – she said, 'Did he kiss you?' 'John and Martin totally would have seen that,' I said, and as I felt myself implying the circumstances had prevented our kissing, I thought maybe this was why you told stories to other people – for how their possibilities enlarged in the retelling.

After a short time, she was not very much interested in being good. Her soul was in quest of something, which was not just being good, and doing one's best. No, she wanted something else: something that was not her ready-made duty. Everything seemed to be merely a matter of social duty, and never of her self. They talked about her soul, but somehow never managed to rouse or implicate her soul. As yet her soul was not brought in at all.

But you're examining and describing the cart, and from it postulating the horse.

Marx makes it not aphoristically but by implication. The censorship is not only a police measure, "but it is even a bad police measure, for it does not achieve what it wants and does not want what it achieves." It succeeds only in adding the allure of martyrdom and mystery to the victims of censorship.

Saying that something is accessible gives it this implication that people need something, and thinking that we know what people need or want is really unpleasant. I don't like to think that way, like, predicting what it is that the people want.

Anytime I feel like I am beginning to explain the plot or characters too much my stomach churns. I like stories that let the characters speak for themselves and don't give you all the information.

What exactly are capitalist productive relations? And how are children implicated in them?

It's a negative for the country. It implicates dozens of private companies, many of which are made up of honest people. It besmirches the office of the U.S. Senate and is bad for the country's morale. Dishonest politicians hurt all politicians. Americans need to trust their leaders. This would be an ugly investigation

That we live now in an economy that is not sustainable is not the fault only of a few mongers of power and heavy equipment. We all are implicated. We all, in the course of our daily economic life, consent to it, whether or not we approve of it. This is because of the increasing abstraction and unconsciousness of our connection to our economic sources in the land, the land-communities, and the land-use economies.

The great thing for me is how Hitchcock uses guilt so well. He implicates the spectator in the character's field, and you really feel it, and there's incredible relief when it comes out right - if it does come out right.

and their implication for southeastern Polynesian prehistory

An unknown individual accosts me outside a café: 'Surely you're not going to wait till you're dead to be loved? The implication of his remark: when are you going to do what you have to do to be loved? Implied beneath this: you are not loved. Hurry up and die: it's your last chance. But in another sense, the question suggests that I have to be love one way or another. And that is also a declaration of love.

For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text?

If reports about a candidate talk about how something "raises questions," creates "shadows," or anything similar, be aware that these are all too often weasel words used to create the impression of wrongdoing out of thin air.

The undivided wholeness of modes of observation, instrumentation and theoretical understanding indicated above implies the need to consider a new order of fact, i.e., the fact about the way in which modes of theoretical understanding and of observation and instrumentation are related to each other.

You're wearing that bow tie, after all. Isn't that rather an invitation to a young sir?