
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