Quotes About Imply

#1. Gwyneth.
He passed her name through his thoughts a hundred times a day. He wanted to say her name, whisper it into her ear. But that would imply an intimacy they didn't share.

Vonda Sinclair

#2. Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.

Isaac Watts

#3. Compassion does not have to be a face-to-face relationship. Forgiveness does not imply friendship. Understanding why someone has inflicted pain on us is how we set ourselves free of the past, not how we excuse someone's behaviour so they can continue to abuse us.

Vironika Tugaleva

#4. Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the wind. They all come together again, they blend, they harmonize.

Frederick Lenz

#5. My duchess," James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. "She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

Eloisa James

#6. Limitations imply possibilities. A problem is a challenge.

Russell Page

#7. Simply because everything is perfect does not imply there is nothing to be done. Actually, it is pretty much the opposite. There is everything to be done.

Bryan Kest

#8. Her silence wasn't unpleasant, not did it imply resentment or sadness. It was transparent, not dense. It took up almost no space.

Roberto Bolano

#9. General intelligence and practical intelligence are "orthogonal": the presence of one doesn't imply the presence of the other.

Malcolm Gladwell

#10. "Thou shalt not bear false witness" Exodus 20:16. When we speak of morality, we imply that a man is true to his word-true to his signature on a contract. The violations of God's laws are evidence that lying and misrepresentation are not absent from us.

Ezra Taft Benson

#11. For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism. There are times when war is justified, and for many centuries the moral criteria for violence have been carefully delineated.

Jimmy Carter

#12. I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to have access to, their multi-dimensionality at every moment. That doesn't imply people aren't multi-dimensional.

Ben Lerner

#13. It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.

George Eliot

#14. I think it's irresponsible when celebrities imply they're doing it all themselves. My son has aunties and uncles around all the time, and my husband is my hero. He's really full-on. I couldn't do it any other way.

Alanis Morissette

#15. Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made.

Ananda Coomaraswamy

#16. No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-Kantian, a Subjectivist, an Agnostic, or, God forbid, a Revisionist. But "epicurean" sounded so harmless it could not possibly imply that one was not an orthodox Marxist.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#17. When you were a Goth, it was important to at least imply the possibility you might burst into flames in direct sunlight.

Joe Hill

#18. The Ninysh might have resisted a bit harder. I don't mean to imply that they were cowards ... , Maurizio said shrugging, clearly implying that the Ninysh were cowards.

Rachel Hartman

#19. But control does not imply petty interference.

T.R. Fehrenbach

#20. No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness.

Elyn R. Saks

#21. In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team as quickly as possible, and this does not imply that he must or should appoint members of the 'other' party to his Cabinet, which could contribute to inaction and inefficiency.

Richard V. Allen

#22. Whether I praise or criticize someone's action, I imply that I am their judge, that I'm engaged in rating them or what they have done.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#23. Throw off your grief,' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or at least is comfortably far away.

Julian Barnes

#24. Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Berg imply a type of pianist who is intellectual. That's not always associated with female soloists.

Jeffrey Tate

#25. But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews ... I know, it's part of the job, but that doesn't imply I have to like it.

Andrew Eldritch

#26. P.C. is the newspeak that the West uses nowadays to imply, allude to, or insinuate rather than to affirm or maintain.

Pope Benedict XVI

#27. The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

Arthur Young

#28. Wait," Wes says. "Are you to imply that our dear Chameleon is once again having premonitions by way of pottery?"
"I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't call me reptilian names," I say.
"Would you prefer it if I called you a freak?

Laurie Faria Stolarz

#29. However, correlation does not necessarily imply causation. The fact that people tend to carry umbrellas when it rains creates a high correlation between umbrella carrying and rain showers. However, it is obvious that choosing to carry an umbrella does not cause rainfall.

Eugene Soltes

#30. All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.

Maimonides

#31. I don't mean to imply that they were cowards ... , Maurizio said, shrugging, clearly implying that [they] were cowards.

Rachel Hartman

#32. The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day. Total freedom from change would imply total freedom from error; but this is the prerogative of Omniscience alone.

Charles Caleb Colton

#33. To imply that domestic abuse is only inflicted against women by men is at best, ill informed, and at worst, intentionally deceptive. To acknowledge domestic violence against men does not diminish the injustices suffered by women. In fact, it gives men and women common cause to go forward together.

Mark Greene

#34. There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.

Marcel Proust

#35. Answered prayers are scary. They imply responsibility. You asked for it. Now that you've got it, what are you going to do? Why else the cautionary phrase Watch out for what you pray for; you might just get it?

Julia Cameron

#36. It has often been noted that the biblical stories recounted in the Quran, especially those dealing with Jesus, imply a familiarity with the traditions and narratives of the Christian faith.

Reza Aslan

#37. Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly ... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

F.L. Lucas

#38. _'You shouldn't say thank you for a good review,' said Harriet. 'That would imply that one had done a favour to the author, whereas one has simply done justice to the book.'_

Dorothy L. Sayers

#39. Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.

Denise Mina

#40. That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.

Neal Stephenson

#41. The word 'God' defines a personal relation, not an objective concept. Like the name of the beloved in every love. It does not imply separation and distance. Hearing the beloved name is an immediate awareness, a dimensionless proximity of presence. It is our life wholly transformed into relation.

Christos Yannaras

#42. That faith be analyzable does not necessarily imply a method for getting by without it ...

Julia Kristeva

#43. I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em.

Ron White

#44. Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.

Jane Jacobs

#45. I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any alterations of one's lifestyle? Or, more than that, the way that people regarded you? The way they reacted to you if you had a Sir in front of your name?

Derek Jacobi

#46. "Perceive" is the word that became in the '72 campaign what "charisma" was for the 1960, '64 and even the '68 campaigns. "Perceive" is the new key word. When you say perceive you imply the difference between what the candidate is and the way the public or the voters see him.

Hunter S. Thompson

#47. There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

Edmund Burke

#48. The more we use words that in any way imply criticism, the more difficult it is for people to stay connected to the beauty within themselves.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#49. Convictions do not imply reasons.

Margaret Deland

#50. As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.

Luc De Clapiers

#51. Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it is. To imply that Art is something heavy and solemn and dull, and Entertainment is modest but jolly and popular, is neo-Victorian idiocy at its worst.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#52. Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion that it could, in effect, be made illegal to imply ridicule of a religion or to lampoon religious figures.

Rowan Atkinson

#53. Fear makes people reach for certainty and stability, neither of which guarantee the safety they imply.

Ed Catmull

#54. The absence of dissent does not necessarily imply acceptance; just tolerance.

Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

#55. Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions.

Angela Merkel

#56. Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.

Jim Butcher

#57. Probation? How amusing. Probation would imply a source of authority.

Kami Garcia

#58. I think that the word feminism doesn't imply enough in terms of solidarity with other liberation struggles. I am firmly committed to the notion that no one group can be freed until all groups are freed.

Sally Potter

#59. We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.

Audre Lorde

#60. I've decided to give you up, she said.
Dick started - had he said anything to imply that she possessed any part of him?

F Scott Fitzgerald

#61. The spread of languages shouldn't imply the decay of national languages. There are so many literary and historical memories, so many joys and sorrows of the past linked to them that it is an obligation for all of us to guard their present and future.

Kato Lomb

#62. Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.

Alfie Kohn

#63. the complexity of society does not imply a planner.

Matt Ridley

#64. But it does imply that the search for scapegoats - a particularly alluring pastime in individualistic cultures such as ours in the United States - is a blind alley.

Peter M. Senge

#65. The weakness of my position does not imply a strengthening of yours.

Sigmund Freud

#66. What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more impressive than the trumpeted valor of the warrior.

Henry David Thoreau

#67. Being bound to one particular storyline such that one's narrative is rigid, does not imply the need to avoid formulating particular other kinds of possibilities. Rather, it involves being stuck in one self-limiting, self-reinforcing set of possibilities.

Elizabeth F. Howell

#68. We were little animals, which is not to imply that by the end of the week we were tearing our tank tops off; just that, metaphorically speaking, we had begun to sniff each other's bottoms, and we did not find the odor entirely repellent.

Nick Hornby

#69. They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with the fervor of all religious movements in their early, purist stages. It is not enough to give lip service and to believe in equal pay: there has to be a conversion, from the heart. Or so they imply.

Margaret Atwood

#70. In speaking of arithmetic (algebra, analysis) as a part of logic I mean to imply that I consider the number-concept entirely independent of the notions or intuitions of space and time, that I consider it an immediate result from the laws of thought.

David Foster Wallace

#71. To air one's views gratuitously, is to imply that the demand for them is brisk.

William Strunk Jr.

#72. Visions are answers. Answers imply questions. It

Michael Cunningham

#73. The most painful part of the beatings is the insult which they imply.

Viktor E. Frankl

#74. What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

Albert Camus

#75. Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.

Benjamin Whichcote

#76. To say or imply that the foundation exists only on the sufferance of government is to reason from the untenable notion that the citizen and all his institutions are creatures of the state, not the other way around.

Richard Cornuelle

#77. An artist makes the world her world. An artist makes her world the world. For a little while. For as long as it takes to look at or listen or to watch or read the work of art. Like a crystal, the work of art seems to contain the whole, and to imply eternity.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#78. I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.

Aimee Mullins

#79. Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

Deepak Chopra

#80. We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation

Thomas Merton

#81. Concerning the loved ones who have passed on ... do not try to make me believe that they are doing nothing, merely resting, careless ever. That would imply the condition of Hell, not of Heaven.

G. Campbell Morgan

#82. The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

Carl Sagan

#83. Silence does not always imply consent. Sometimes it simply means that the silent one has opted out of a discussion with idiots.

Lex Allen

#84. Listening to your body does not imply a lack of grit but a willingness to honor true physical limits. Kenyan runners have a reputation for listening to their bodies but certainly do not take it easy on themselves; they are among the world's most gifted and accomplished athletes.

Gina Greenlee

#85. I guess 'joint' would imply two people had ownership, which, thanks Life, is simply no longer the case.

Ann Benjamin

#86. all the statements made about God that imply body have some hidden meaning and teach us what is above us by means of something familiar to ourselves, with the exception of any statement concerning the bodily sojourn of the God-Word.

John Damascene

#87. Those who believe their suffering has been valuable love more readily than those who see no meaning in their pain.
Suffering does not necessarily imply love, but love implies suffering

Andrew Solomon

#88. Universal silence must be taken to imply the consent of the people.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#89. Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.

Gary Hamel

#90. If you chose a particular religion, you were siding with the government religion of whatever region you were in. That's never been true in America, but also, the United States also has so many more immigrant groups which also tends to imply more religious diversity right away.

Susan Jacoby

#91. Non-attachment is not complacency. It doesn't imply a lack of caring and commitment. The philosophy of non-attachment is based in the understanding that holding on too tightly to those things, which in any case are always going to be slipping through our fingers, hurts and gives us rope burn.

Lama Surya Das

#92. But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off.

Gregory Maguire

#93. The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other. Independence doesn't imply rationality or impartiality, though. You can be biased and irrational, but as long as you're independent, you won't make the group any dumber.

James Surowiecki

#94. When you go to a Japense wedding, make sure that you tie the ribbon on the present tightly because if you don't, you may imply that you don't think the marriage will last.

Kabir Sehgal

#95. Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.

Antony Garrett Lisi

#96. The only logical answer to the question of why Elijah needed to pray is to imply that God has chosen to work through people. Even when it is the Lord himself initiating something, earnestly desiring to do it, He still needs us to ask.

Dutch Sheets

#97. Now, my sister has been called a lot of things:sweet, kind, a living Disney princess, but none of those things imply that she would ever date someone just for his money.

Bernie Su

#98. The worse thing that contemporary qualitative research can imply is that, in this post-modern age, anything goes. The trick is to produce intelligent, disciplined work on the very edge of the abyss.

David Silverman

#99. In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth.

Martin Feldstein

#100. Even the buckle, with the help of which the prehistoric Greek fastened his cloak, has been shown by a German scholar to imply an arrangement of the dress such as we see represented on the Hittite monument of Ibreez.

A.H. Sayce