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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
Lists have always implied social order. -- David Viscott
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute. -- J. William Fulbright
Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre. -- Andrzej Wajda
Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality. -- Thomas Griffith
Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness. -- Michael Polanyi
I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it. -- Patrick Troughton
I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it. -- Christopher Hitchens
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
A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality. -- Jimmy Carter
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
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
The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social. -- Steven Sinofsky
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
Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated. -- Kenneth Burke
True, the apostles did not expressly say that people will be saved only if they repent, believe, and confess. But most evangelicals assume - with good reason - that this is what the apostles implied. -- Lewis B. Smedes
Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs. -- Goldwin Smith
The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person, actually requires you to be a public person as well, and those are two separate entities to me. -- Lois Lowry
So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language. -- Michael Polanyi
The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture. -- Ian Hamilton Finlay
In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that's implied before it and the line that's implied after it. Maybe five lines have to do the work of fifty lines. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when there was some huge worldwide story, the paper led its front page on some cabinet changes in Turkey. It implied a magnificent disdain for the quotidian folderol of mere news. -- Simon Hoggart
The man you married is yours to have and to hold for the rest of ever, even if he starts chewing tobacco or decides to pierce his hairy nipple and buy a Corvette, because you very plainly said - or at least implied - you were in it for better or for worse. -- Jenna McCarthy
The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops. -- James Wolcott
For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight. -- Damien Hirst
I don't even know if I always entirely get what I'm trying to say right away with lyrics. I like a lot of things that are more subtext. I grew up mishearing lyrics my whole life, but somehow there's so much more, too, that's implied in vocal delivery and the music itself and the gestural quality of it. -- Kim Gordon
Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically. -- Willem Dafoe
News told, rumors heard, truth implied, facts buried. -- Toba Beta
Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion. -- Mikko Hypponen
Despite what novels implied, vampirism did not make stalking sexy. -- Thomm Quackenbush
Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
I like to keep the world, to some degree, an implied setting. -- Paul S. Kemp
Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention. -- Jack Woodford
Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy. -- John Ruskin
She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name... -- Jennifer Weiner
What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary. -- David Hume
Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire. -- Albert Camus
The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling. -- Fred Hollows
A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language. -- Frantz Fanon
Perhaps the spirit of the Everglades was most evident in the unseen, the hidden, the implied. -- T. J. MacGregor
Since...since when?" I finally managed to ask. "Since...forever." His tone implied the answer was obvious. -- Richelle Mead
If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil? -- Piers Anthony
Sincerity is not part of the political vocabulary. If it is used or implied bells should ring -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
There is an implied warranty that a commissioned work should last a lifetime. There is to be no charge. -- Maxfield Parrish
I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture. -- Keith Carter
It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn. -- Alan Watts
In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark. -- Paul Theroux
Dalgliesh was too experienced to assume that fear implied guilt; it was often the most innocent who were the most terrified. -- P. D. James
There's always been this implied promise - and it probably was stated somewhere - that Hillary Clinton was gonna be thanked. -- Rush Limbaugh
Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright. -- Elias Lyman Magoon
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer; he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the Heavenly Father's wisdom. -- Oswald Chambers
It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.' -- Wendell Berry
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
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
The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the eye rather than the ear. -- Harold Innis
It seems almost inherent in human beings that when you are thriving for a certain level of spirituality, you tend to reject clothes, and the implied need to hide yourself. -- Jim Dodge
I may have implied on several occasions to several different people that I may have been Jesus Christ, but I haven't decided yet what I am or who I am. -- Vincent Bugliosi
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
His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty... absolute certainty. -- Paul Outerbridge
Photographs freed from the scientific bias can, and indeed usually do, have double meanings, implied meanings, unintended meanings, can hint and insinuate, and may even mean the opposite of what they apparently mean. -- Peter C Bunnell
You [ Peter R. Breggin] have basically implied that they've turned our schools into something other than schools. What do you think the government has in mind by turning our schools into little clinics? -- Michael Savage
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
Some people think emotionally more often than they think politically. Some think politically more often than they think rationally. Others never think rationally about anything at all.No judgment implied. Just an observation. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Posterity does not pay off anything of the national debt. Each administration adds to the debt left to it, and the promise of liquidation implied in every bond issue is a false promise. -- Frank Chodorov
A statue of Mary, sheltered inside, implied infinite peace. A listening ear. A willingness to give you the benefit of the doubt. God knew what he was doing when he gave Jesus a mother." -- Siri Mitchell
You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a lot of rules there, literal and implied, that you have to navigate. -- Michael Ian Black
You'd forgive me for Claire - but not for killing your men. He glanced at the two Craddocks, spotty as a pair of raisin puddings and - Grey's look implied - likely no brighter. -- Diana Gabaldon
There is a social injunction implied in the positivist and analyst methods. This social axiom is that :;:;:;:;:;:; We OUGHT to act in such a way that what IS true can be verified to be so. -- Jacob Bronowski
One of the hardest things to live with in any relationship is criticism, real or implied. Criticism is a form of humor for them, and they enjoy feeling superior when they see someone else's discomfort. -- Robert E. Wells

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