Implied Quotes

the implied Shakespeare is thoroughly engaged with life, and he does not conceal his judgment on the selfish, the foolish, and the cruel. — Wayne C. Booth

There's always been this implied promise - and it probably was stated somewhere - that Hillary Clinton was gonna be thanked. — Rush Limbaugh

Cyprian didn't shrug - a servant of his calibre would never do such a thing - but his entire demeanor implied a shrug. — K.J. Charles

Alarmed, I realized what my visceral reaction implied: jealousy. Over a guy I barely knew, with whom I'd exchanged more saliva than sentences. — Tammara Webber

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute. — J. William Fulbright

Will an hour be enough?"
An hour implied that I needed a lot of help. "I'll see what I can do," I said coolly. I was ready in twenty minutes. — Karen Marie Moning

News told, rumors heard, truth implied, facts buried. — Toba Beta

The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes. — B.H. Liddell Hart

It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn. — Alan Watts

Madelyn knew her aunt, drunk or sober, simply did not have the continuity of thought to see beyond her opinions to the implied insult. — Olivia Parker

The implied methods would permit construction of entirely new computers reduced in size and basic complexity by a factor of at least a thousand. — Frank Herbert

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality. — Thomas Griffith

Time entails memory, memory entails conscience, conscience entails thought for the future, which is itself implied by the existence of time. — John Brunner

The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling. — Fred Hollows

In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark. — Paul Theroux

The fake laughter is an implied message. — Toba Beta

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"Hey, Mom."
"Can you do me a favor?" she asked in that way that implied that saying no would cause someone to die. — John Corey Whaley

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Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness. — Michael Polanyi

In an excess of examples, the walk to globalization has additionally implied the minimization of women and young ladies. What's more that must change. — Hillary Clinton

Since ... since when?" I finally managed to ask.
"Since ... forever." His tone implied the answer was obvious. — Richelle Mead

The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life. — Nancy Kress

She approached the car with a confident stride that implied she had lived on the block her whole life. — Abby Slovin

Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its general or implied grants of power. — Hugo Black

Without the possibility of error and real indeterminacy implied by the quantum theory, human liberty is meaningless. — Heinz R. Pagels

I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture. — Keith Carter

Did she tell you I set puppies on fire, too?" Vann asked. "She did not," I said. "It may have been implied. — John Scalzi

His affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The implied trust was humbling. He didn't deserve it, but then again, he wouldn't betray it either. — Emma Wildes

It was the root of street cool, too, the knowing posture that implied connection, invisible lines up to the hidden levels of influence. — William Gibson

The continuing belief that the world is fundamentally just is implied in the very complaint that there has been an injustice. — Alain De Botton

She knew what the laugh implied, and it angered her. Mrs. Wells don't you be getting any ideas about my husband. — Barry Gray

He made a tck noise in the back of his throat. It expressed all sorts of annoyance and impatience, with just a smidgen of an implied eye roll. — Katie MacAlister

Leaving. That was the word she liked to use. Not going away, which implied a return, but leaving, which implied a jet plane. — Emma Straub

If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil? — Piers Anthony

She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name ... — Jennifer Weiner

Is "defeatedly" a word? As in, "She sighed defeatedly as spell-check implied that 'defeatedly' isn't a real word. — Jenny Lawson

throwing himself into a chair in a manner which implied that he would rather have flung it at the head of his host. — Alexandre Dumas

Dalgliesh was too experienced to assume that fear implied guilt; it was often the most innocent who were the most terrified. — P.D. James

What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary. — David Hume

Sincerity is not part of the political vocabulary. If it is used or implied bells should ring — Bangambiki Habyarimana

When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household. — Mahatma Gandhi

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it. — Christopher Hitchens

The majority of important things cannot be said outright, they cannot be made explicit. They can only be implied. — Patrick Rothfuss

Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken. — Amos Bronson Alcott

To take up the violin or any instrument was an act of hope, it implied a future. — Ian McEwan

The fat woman's expression implied that she would go crazy on the spot if anybody did any more thinking. — Kurt Vonnegut

For the record, telling your boyfriend that your not-as-dead-as-you-might-have-implied mother has been arrested for murder doesn't go over well — Tracy Weber

Perhaps the spirit of the Everglades was most evident in the unseen, the hidden, the implied. — T. J. MacGregor

As Thoreau implied, telegraphy made relevance irrelevant. — Neil Postman

Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention. — Jack Woodford

He fled the light and the knowledge the light implied, and so came back to himself. Even so do the rest of us; even so the best of us. — Stephen King

I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it. — Patrick Troughton

Despite what novels implied, vampirism did not make stalking sexy. — Thomm Quackenbush

The view was in an unearthly way beautiful, but it was also unendurable. It implied too much — Robert Charles Wilson

Margaret used to say that there were two kinds of women: those with clear edges to them, and those who implied mystery. — Julian Barnes

It was just past dawn, in the perfidious part of the day that implied anything was possible when, really, nothing was very likely. — T.C. Boyle

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre. — Andrzej Wajda

We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which mean were are not alone in this world. — Miranda July

Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,
energy. — John Ruskin

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language. — Frantz Fanon

Lists have always implied social order. — David Viscott

There is an implied warranty that a commissioned work should last a lifetime. There is to be no charge. — Maxfield Parrish

Nothing is implied here. Except the possibility that everything is connected. — Tom Robbins

Philip Murdstone sat considering the phrase 'depths of despair'. Its plural implied that there were, even now, levels of it he had yet to experience. — Mal Peet

Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion. — Mikko Hypponen

Here the voice told him truthfully what sort of wife he had wedded, and what she was doing in his absence. — Rudyard Kipling

Marriage, to me, implied stability, something sure and reliable. Happily ever after and all good things. — Meredith Wild

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament ... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy. — Bernard Berenson

Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright. — Elias Lyman Magoon

Her smile, though, no, it was her laugh, a dusky, deep cascading laughter that caught the joy, implied and mocked the sorrow in every joy. — Lucia Berlin