Implied Quotes

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

  Andrzej Wajda

  Names, Theatre, Television

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• Lists have always implied social order.

  David Viscott

  Order, Lists, Social

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• Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Kindness, Men, Perfect

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• 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

  Flags, Spinning, Wheels

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Reality, Space, Democracy

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• Perhaps the spirit of the Everglades was most evident in the unseen, the hidden, the implied.

  T. J. MacGregor

  Florida, Unseen, Spirit

  T. J. MacGregor (1990). “Kin Dread”, Fawcett Books

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• These things end,” she said. “They always end. Nobody marries their first love. First love is just that. First. It’s implied that something else will follow.

  Rainbow Rowell

  First Love, Love Is, Firsts

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• What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through it all; to subordinate, as Ruskin implied, to keep proportion, to connect the unequal things into a whole that preserves the good, even if admittedly good is often not simple to find.

  Richard Ford

  Loss, Simple, Chance

  Richard Ford (2013). “Canada”, p.511, A&C Black

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• Sir. My lord. Master Roydon." The young man blurted out most available titles except for "Your Majesty" and "Prince of Darkness." These were implied nonetheless.

  Deborah Harkness

  Men, Darkness, Titles

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.527, Penguin

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

  Frantz Fanon

  Men, World, Language

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.18, Pluto Press

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• You do realize you just insulted me, right?" "How so?" "You implied that I can't protect her or my people." I looked at him. "That's not at all what I meant." "Apologize and I'll let it go." I kept my hands firmly on the iron rail before me. Grabbing the weight bar and walloping the Beast Lord upside the head wouldn't be the best diplomatic move. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty." There. I was civil. It almost killed me.

  Ilona Andrews

  Sorry, Moving, Hands

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.109, Penguin

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• We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which meant that we were not alone in this world.

  Miranda July

  Mean, World, Get Away

  "Something That Needs Nothing". www.newyorker.com. September 18, 2006.

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• What’s with her?” says the painter. “She’s mad because she’s a woman,” Jon says. This is something I haven’t heard for years, not since high school. Once it was a shaming thing to say, and crushing to have it said about you, by a man. It implied oddness, deformity, sexual malfunction. I go to the living room doorway. “I’m not mad because I’m a woman,” I say. “I’m mad because you’re an asshole.

  Margaret Atwood

  Crush, School, Men

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• You'll live forever in our hearts, big man. That particularly galled me, because it implied the immortality of those left behind: You will live forever in my memory, because I will live forever! I AM YOUR GOD NOW, DEAD BOY! I OWN YOU!

  John Green

  Memories, Real, Heart

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.171, Penguin UK

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• 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

  Twenties, Helping, Hours

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.86, Dell

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• The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as where? — how far? — how situated in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern.

  Aldous Huxley

  Distance, Eye, Order

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

  William Hague

  Decision, Would Be, Defining

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• I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are using.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Compassion, Meditation Practice, Technique

  "Opening the Heart with Lovingkindness" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2011.

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• She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.

  Kate Atkinson

  Lying, Reality, Should Have

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• The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and even necessary, that we should go on and on from one technological innovation to the next, which would cause the economy to "grow" and make everything better and better. This of course implied at every point a hatred of the past, of all things inherited and free. All things superceded in our progress of innovations, whatever their value might have been, were discounted as of no value at all.

  Wendell Berry

  Past, Hatred, Innovation

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• He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart.

  Henry James

  Light, Mind, Literature

  Henry James (1984). “Literary Criticism: French writers. Other European writers. The prefaces to the New York edition”, p.681, Library of America

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• Faites de beaux rêves, monsieur," she called as she put out the light. Switters had always loved that expression, "Make fine dreams." In contrast to the English, "Have sweet dreams," the French implied that the sleeper was not a passive spectator, a captive audience, but had some control over and must accept some responsiblity for his or her dreaming. Moreover, a "fine" dream had much wider connotations than a "sweet" one.

  Tom Robbins

  Dream, Sweet, Light

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• The skanky vamp biting for bucks on the dark end of state street is your ex boyfriend?" William asked. The look on William's face implied he hoped I washed after interacting with Parrish

  Tate Hallaway

  Ex Boyfriend, Dark, Looks

  Tate Hallaway (2006). “Tall, Dark & Dead”, p.283, Penguin

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• Nowhere was the airport's charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike fonts, the itineraries of aircraft about to take to the skies. These screens implied a feeling of infinite and immediate possibility: they suggested the ease with which we might impulsively approach a ticket desk and, within a few hours, embark for a country where the call to prayer rang out over shuttered whitewashed houses, where we understood nothing of the language and where no one knew our identities.

  Alain de Botton

  Country, Prayer, Airports

  Alain de Botton (2010). “A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary”, p.22, Profile Books

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• 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

  Guy, Saliva, Reactions

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