Implying Quotes:

To be a hegemon is inherently ambiguous, usually implying some mixture of dominance and legitimacy, that is, being seen as contributing global leadership in a generally benevolent manner.

- Richard A. Falk

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Mixtures, Dominance, Legitimacy, Implying

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.

- Emile Durkheim

source: Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.245, Routledge

topic: Strong, Ignorance, Risk, Implying

I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.

- Barbara Steele

topic: Publicity, Welcome, Kind, Implying

There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others

- Lafcadio Hearn

topic: Suicide, Men, Littles, Implying

The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Love, Kissing, Night, Kissing Her, Succulents

Obama specializes in knocking down straw men. 'I reject the view that says our problems will simply take care of themselves,' he said, implying that's the view of Republicans. It's the view of almost no one.

- Fred Barnes

source: "The Return of Big Government" by Fred Barnes, www.weeklystandard.com. March 9, 2009.

topic: Men, Views, Care, Implying

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

- Carl Sagan

source: Broca's Brain ch. 5 (1979)

topic: Funny, Brother, Laughter, Funny Leadership, Pale Blue Dot

It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Character, Light, Color, Implying

Nonviolent Communication shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, without any insults, without any put-downs, without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness.

- Marshall B. Rosenberg

source: "Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding".

topic: Communication, Intellectual, Criticism, Implying

Are you implying that our relationship is like a Spanish soap opera?” “I’m not implying. I’m saying it.

- Ilona Andrews

source: Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.183, Penguin

topic: Opera, Soap, Our Relationship, Implying

Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past.

- Richard Overy

topic: Past, Ideas, Desire, Goering, Implying

You [can] become part of someone else's narrative. Every once in a while I would get people asking me questions like, "If your husband is a Muslim, then why haven't you converted to Islam?" Interestingly enough, almost every person who asked me that was a Sunni, and it was their not-so-subtle way of implying that my Shiite husband was a bad Muslim for letting his infidel wife run around unconverted.

- Annia Ciezadlo

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Running, Husband, Wife, Implying

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.

- James Anthony Froude

source: James Anthony Froude (2011). “Bunyan”, p.181, Cambridge University Press

topic: Morality, Divine, Obligation, Implying

Racism is stupid. It’s an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different.

- Rick Warren

source: FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jul 17, 2013

topic: Stupid, Racism, Different, Blasphemy, Anti Racist

Listen closely to your invisible thoughts. What do you hear? What are your words implying? That is their potency. What do you want? Name it and rearrange the structure of your mind to imply you no longer desire it, because you already have it!

- Neville Goddard

topic: Law Of Attraction, Names, Mind, Potency, Implying

It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying that every man by his folly or wisdom prepares good or evil for himself. But we may view it in another light, namely, that we may so accommodate ourselves to the dispositions of Providence as to be happy in our lot, whatever may be its privations.

- Alexander von Humboldt

topic: Men, Light, Views, Proverbial, Implying

Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought into harmony with the dogmas of the Catholic church.... Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

- Pope Pius XI

topic: Christian, Religious, Catholic, Historical Facts, Implying

The design is a really flat primary color with all sorts of abstract geometric shapes, just implying something. And then you'd have your characters running from something with guns. It was very expressionistic.

- Don Hertzfeldt

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Running, Character, Gun, Primary Colors, Geometric

If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.

- Aristotle

topic: Men, Soul, Good Man, Implying

"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

- Brigid Brophy

topic: Compassion, People, Abuse, Implying

Black women are some of the most colorful women in the world. We come in all shadeshave so many hair textures..eye colors..body types. In this generation, it's sad to see so many black girls claiming ethnicities that they know nothing about in hopes of impressing a man or appearing 'exotic'. So many people act as if being black and beautiful is impossible. It's not. If we wanna get technical and look at our history, almost every black American is mixed. But we must stop implying that a woman's beauty comes from a part of her that is not black.

- Skye Townsend

topic: Beautiful, Girl, Eye, Black Girl, Eye Color

'A Naval History of Britain' which begins in the 7th century has to explain what it means by Britain. My meaning is simply the British Isles as a whole, but not any particular nation or state or our own day... 'Britain' is not a perfect word for this purpose, but 'Britain and Ireland' would be both cumbersome and misleading, implying an equality of treatment which is not possible. Ireland and the Irish figure often in this book, but Irish naval history, in the sense of the history of Irish fleets, is largely a history of what might have been rather than what actually happened.

- Nicholas Rodger

topic: Book, Mean, Perfect, Isle, Implying

I don't think there's anything really wrong with influence because I think that one can use another man's art as material either literally or just implying that they're doing that, without it representing a lack of a point of view.

- Robert Rauschenberg

topic: Art, Men, Thinking, Implying

He is someone I respect [Beckham] as a man and as a player. He is the captain of England and has been a European champion. I have never been critical of him and reports implying that are incorrect as I've never made comments about him

- Jose Mourinho

topic: Player, Men, Champion, Beckham, Implying

The existence of God is not logically necessary, and yet, on the basis of some profound peculiar empirical order in the universe, it seems that He exists as the ultimate uncreated Being, implying a paradox, as no logically unnecessary entity can be uncreated. This paradox is the ultimate question asked by God, who is nothing but the ultimate questioner.

- Kedar Joshi

topic: Order, Profound, Peculiar, Ultimate Questions, Order In The Universe

"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

- Pope Pius XI

source: Pope Pius XI (1935). “Forty Years After: Reconstructing the Social Order”

topic: Christian, Religious, Expression, Implying

Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know perfectly well they would have used it had they had it. They accept the idea that war is war; they give no quarter and accept none. Total war, they recognize, knows no Queensberry Rules. If you develop a devastating new weapon during a total war, you use it; you do not put it into the War Museum.

- George Mikes

topic: Funny, War, Museums, Moral Superiority, Implying

To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic, and so on. True surrender, however, is something entirely different. It does not mean to passively put up with whatever situation you find yourself in and to do nothing about it. Nor does it mean to cease making plans or initiating positive action. Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Letting Go, Giving Up, Mean, Connotation, Lethargic

We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.

- Johann Lamont

topic: Important, Students, Implying

One is telling a story about old times when someone breaks in with a little detail that he happens to know, implying that one's own version is inaccurate — disgusting behavior!

- Sei Shonagon

source: Sei Shōnagon (1967). “The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon”

topic: Stories, Littles, Details, Old Time, Implying

I guess what I'm looking for here is empathy. So you [Nicholas Kristof] have traveled all around the world, famously to the worse places of the world. Darfur. Mogadishu, Ouagadougou. Probably those places much more than Modesto or Lewiston.I never read a column by you that suggest the people in those places, who support dictators oftentimes, are racists or bad people. You would never write that about a poor person in the third world but you are implying that about your fellow Americans.

- Tucker Carlson

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Writing, People, Support, Darfur, Mogadishu

The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when they're making their work the left-brain is shut off. So if you talk to an artist about it, you're talking to someone who wasn't there. It's hopeless. And also it's insulting. It's implying that the work is not an adequate account of itself. To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.

- Jonathan Santlofer

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Artist, Talking, Insulting, Talking To Someone, Left Brain

If I describe a sunny morning in May (the buds, the wet-winged flies, the warm sun and cool breeze), I am also implying the perishing quality of a morning in May, and a good description of May sets up the possibility of a May disaster.

- Clark Blaise

topic: Morning, Quality, Sun, Perishing, Implying

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.

- Curtis Sittenfeld

topic: Kissing, Hair, People, Retelling, Implying

That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like to call him "the current president" because it's a hopeful phrase, implying that his administration is only temporary.

- Sarah Vowell

topic: Names, Political, Hopeful, Implying

But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide of frustration, decay. We’ve reached the end of pure inspiration, and are now somewhere else, something implying routine, or doing something because people expect us to do it, going somewhere each day because we went there the day before, saying things because we have said them before, and this seems like the work of a different sort of animal, contrary to our plan, and this is very very bad.

- Dave Eggers

source: Dave Eggers (2014). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic”, p.287, Pan Macmillan

topic: Inspiration, Animal, Frustration, Implying

The term ignorant is indeed perhaps an overstatement, implying as it does that something is known somewhere, whereas in reality we are not even sure of this: we in fact cannot aver with any degree of certainty that we are ignorant. Yet this is not so bad; we have at any rate kept our open-mindedness -- that, at least, we may be sure that we have -- and are not in any danger, or so it seems, of freezing into the pious attitudes of those true spiritual bigots whose faces are turned toward eternity and who therefore can see nothing.

- John Ashbery

topic: Spiritual, Attitude, Reality, Overstatement, Implying

Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if it were organically part of them. That must be why we have so much trouble returning borrowed books. It's not exactly theft (of course not, we're not thieves, what are you implying?); it's simply a slippage in ownership or, better still, a transfer of substance. That which belonged to someone else becomes mine when I look at it. And if I like what I read, naturally I'll have difficulty giving it back.

- Daniel Pennac

topic: Children, Book, Fall, Borrowed, Implying

Well, you know, once again, Donald [Trump] is implying that he didn't support the invasion of Iraq. I said it was a mistake.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Mistake, Iraq, Support, Implying

[Bill Clinton] has settled numerous lawsuits without admitting any guilt on a whole number of things. Are you saying, are you implying that settling a lawsuit is implying guilt? Because if so, it means that your candidate is guilty of an awful lot of things, no.

- Anderson Cooper

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Mean, Numbers, Guilt, Implying

There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with for evil so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.

- Robert Browning

source: 'Abt Vogler' (1864) st. 9

topic: Evil, Broken, Perfect, Null, Implying

Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as absent, as dead, although it is still present - but above all in the sense of its radical dissection: the word 'quarters' the thing, it tears it out of the embedment in its concrete context, it treats its component parts as entities with an autonomous existence: we speak about color, form, shape, etc., as if they possessed self-sufficient being.

- Slavoj Žižek

topic: Self, Color, Tears, Dissection, Implying

To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.435, Penguin

topic: Evil, Neutrality, Sanctions, Implying

Even after the Super Bowl victory of the New Orleans Saints, I have noticed a large number of people implying, with bad jokes, that Cajuns aren't smart. I would like to state for the record that I disagree with that assessment. Anybody that would build a city 5 feet below sea level in a hurricane zone and fill it with Democrats who can't swim is a genius.

- Larry the Cable Guy

topic: Smart, Sea, Cities, Bad Jokes, Super Bowl

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

- Ezra Pound

source: ABC of Reading (1934) "Warning"

topic: Music, New Year, Taken, Implying

The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a direct representation in the Senate, and leaves in their possession certain exclusive and very important portions of sovereign power. This fully corresponds, in every rational import of the terms, with the idea of a federal government.

- Alexander Hamilton

source: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.85, Rowman & Littlefield

topic: Ideas, Government, Important, Federalism, Imports

As you're implying, there's a new technology that can look even deeper into that brick and we can start getting into a level where it breaks down so that the brick isn't even there, but obviously it is because Moe can hit Curly on the head with it. It's quite bizarre and all relative.

- Brad Warner

source: Source: theindiespiritualist.com

topic: Technology, Looks, Levels, Implying

We're in a chronic debt-deflation. There's no way we can recover unless you write down the debts. And that's what the IMF basically is implying (and it was explicit regarding Greece), but its not spelling it out, because that's not what can be said in polite company.

- Michael Hudson

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Writing, Debt, Way, Deflation, Implying

The right of absolute and irresponsible dominion is the right of property, and the right of property is the right of absolute, irresponsible dominion. The two are identical; the one necessarily implying the other.

- Lysander Spooner

topic: Two, Dominion, Identical, Implying