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Tag Name "Implied" (52)

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Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.
John Milton
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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
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She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name.
Jennifer Weiner
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The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Glossed over the disastrous war and its multibillion-dollar price tag and implied again that our presence in Iraq is somehow improving the situation in that chaotic and turbulent country. The Congress must stand up against Bush's plan to escalate the war.
John F. Kerry
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Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of time without annihilating the human and natural substance of society it would have physically destroyed man and transformed his surroundings into a wilderness.
Karl Polanyi
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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
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Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.
Albert Camus
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There's no love in my songs. There's just a lot of resentment. Just bad attitude. But that's intentional, that's what I like. I love the whole idea of Motown. Their idea was to sing how down on their luck they were, but the song implied hope that it would get better. I liked that idea, and I wanted to go even further with it.
Memory Tapes
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Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.
Andrzej Wajda
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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
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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
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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
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All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings.
David Bowie
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The most challenging part of being a dad is trying to postpone the moment when they realize you don't know anything. I love any sentence that begins with Daddy...? because it's implied they're looking up to you - that you'll have the answer. The truth is, I don't have any answers.
Paul Reiser
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Lists have always implied social order.
David Viscott
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It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.
Phyllis Schlafly
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A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to attempt to justify the kindness of one's friends.
Eugene V. Debs
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Since...since when? I finally managed to ask. Since...forever. His tone implied the answer was obvious.
Richelle Mead
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The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling.
Fred Hollows
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Perhaps the spirit of the Everglades was most evident in the unseen, the hidden, the implied.
T. J. MacGregor
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Creating senates, the French critics said, implied that there was another social order besides the people represented in the houses of representatives. [John] Adams actually agreed with that implication and argued that the aristocracy and the people had to have separate houses this was the only way the power of the aristocracy could be contained.
Gordon S. Wood
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We all expect photographs to be a picture of something. We assume that the photographer observed a place, a person, an event in the world, and wants to record it, point at it…The problem with my work is that these images are really not of anything in that sense, they register only that which is incidental and peripheral to the implied it.
Uta Barth
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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
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