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What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights. -- Tom G. Palmer
What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. -- Albert Camus
Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain. -- Deepak Chopra
How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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
A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent. -- John P. Kotter
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. -- Thomas Sowell
The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe. -- Philip Warren Anderson
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
For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced. -- Arthur Machen
I hate the word 'rendering,' as it equates to 'pouring concrete' on ideas that demand continuing dialog. 'Trade secrets' imply hoarding of knowledge. -- Chris Jordan
I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
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
I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason. -- Jasper Johns
'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling. -- Elvis Costello
The Qur'an not only lacks any earthly punishment for someone who abandons Islam, it even includes verses that imply that such a change of heart should be a matter of free choice. -- Mustafa Akyol
Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property. -- Lysander Spooner
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
It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
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
For the record: Quantum mechanics does not deny the existence of objective reality. Nor does it imply that mere thoughts can change external events. Effects still require causes, so if you want to change the universe, you need to act on it. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
There's just something wonderful about getting a small group of people together in an isolated location, and there's something about cabins themselves that imply both horror and fun. When you go to a cabin, you're usually going to have a good time. -- Drew Goddard
Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still. -- Frederick William Faber
I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog, but I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility. -- Noam Chomsky
The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost imply that there's a conspiracy here to avoid the fact that evolution is actually flawed. All of those books, unfortunately, are based upon conclusions that no reasonable biologist would now accept. -- Francis Collins
To the extent that we even understand string theory, it may imply a massive number of possible different universes with different laws of physics in each universe, and there may be no way of distinguishing between them or saying why the laws of physics are the way they are. And if I can predict anything, then I haven't explained anything. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
Doesn't becoming imply time? -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love does not imply pacifism. -- Derrick Jensen
Convictions do not imply reasons. -- Margaret Deland
Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence. -- Alberto Fujimori
Limitations imply possibilities. A problem is a challenge. -- Russell Page
There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity. -- Edmund Burke
The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic. -- Bernard Cornwell
Selfless giving does not imply superiority. Selfless giving is about love. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Universal silence must be taken to imply the consent of the people. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public. -- Benjamin Whichcote
Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that. -- Denise Mina
Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings. -- Ann Leckie
A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face -- Aldous Huxley
A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face. -- Aldous Huxley
Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity. -- Alfie Kohn
That faith be analyzable does not necessarily imply a method for getting by without it. . . . -- Julia Kristeva
Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal. -- Jim Butcher
To air one's views gratuitously, is to imply that the demand for them is brisk. -- William Strunk, Jr.
Selfless giving does not imply giving everything up - it's simply having a good time. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Leaving would imply suitcases and empty drawers, and late birthday cards with ten-dollar bills stuffed inside. -- Julie Kagawa
My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible. -- M.I.A.
Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage. -- Kate Braverman
To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems. -- Rafael Sabatini
The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. -- Carl Sagan
All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities. -- Maimonides
Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Berg imply a type of pianist who is intellectual. That's not always associated with female soloists. -- Jeffrey Tate
That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code. -- Neal Stephenson
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails. -- F. L. Lucas
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I'd hate to imply that it's your civic duty to see The House I Live In, but guess what it is. -- Ty Burr
Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry. -- Thomas Perry
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past. -- A. J. P. Taylor
There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite. -- Marcel Proust
All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective. -- Ian Curtis
Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing. -- Anthony Burgess
Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is ... a normal and healthy sentiment. -- Adolf Hitler
I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him. -- Dean Koontz
If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm. -- Paul Fussell
The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless. -- Salvador Dali
The idea of retirement seems to imply that you stop doing what you always did. Why would you do that? I don't get that. -- Paula Scher
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
I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey. -- Aldo Leopold
Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false. -- Richard Dawkins
In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced. -- Andrew Coyle Bradley
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
Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States. -- Alan Greenspan
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
Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern Seaboard. -- Martin Filler
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
Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise. -- Samuel Johnson
We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction. -- George Bernard Shaw
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
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
Bird's mind and fingers work with incredible speed. He can imply four chord changes in a melodic pattern where another musician would have trouble inserting two. -- Leonard Feather
To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters. -- Serge Lang
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
The earth says have a place, be what that place requires; hear the sound the birds imply and see as deep as ridges go behind each other. -- William Stafford
They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
Corbyn's words imply a serious lack of moral judgement. Just as all Muslims are not to blame for ISIS, not all Brits are to blame for [Jeremy] Corbyn. -- Tzipi Livni
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
We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself. -- Ben Bernanke
We strongly oppose warning labels on cigarette packs for several reasons: first and foremost, warning labels may improperly imply that it has been scientifically established that smoking causes disease -- R. J. Reynolds
We don't like to say that [my wife was Jewish] because her mother was Jewish, which means she was Jewish. So don't imply that my wife was a shikse. -- Kevin Sessums
In Western culture, the 'miracles' referenced in scripture seem to have been relegated to the past as if to imply that they were reserved exclusively for certain historical periods. -- Mark Ireland
It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires work and self-understanding of the cravings driving behaviours. -- Charles Duhigg
The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling. -- Elvis Costello
To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith. -- Maggie Gallagher
A blessed and indestructible being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; so he is free from anger and partiality, for all such things imply weakness. -- Epicurus
George Washington participated as a vestryman in his local congregation, but that didn't really imply any particular kind of religious belief. This was necessary in order to participate in the society. -- Matthew Stewart
Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialists overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical. -- John Templeton
This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself. -- Jim Garrison
Therefore, since we may say, after such long experience, that religion does not imply exact honesty, we are authorized by the same reasons to think that atheism does not exclude it. -- Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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
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 Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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
An unscrupulous contractor regards no basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul, no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement room too small for his workroom as these conditions imply low rental. -- Jane Addams
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
Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries. -- Morton Feldman
Kant thinks that a free will is a will under moral laws and that freedom and the moral law are distinct thoughts that reciprocally imply each other. Fichte thinks they are the same thought. -- Allen W. Wood
The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God's love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done. -- Tullian Tchividjian
The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life. -- Jack Johnson
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
Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me, let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains, -- John Sentamu

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