Implicitness Quotes & Sayings

Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play. — Jane Austen

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees. — Charles Eastman

I don't intend on keeping her anywhere ... Aside from my bed, she's free to come and go as she pleases. — Tarryn Fisher

People rely on intelligence to solve problems, and they are naturally baffled when comprehension proves impotent to effect emotional change. To the neocortical brain, rich in the power of abstractions, understanding makes all the difference, but it doesn't count for much in the neural systems that evolved before understanding existed. Ideas bounce like so many peas off the sturdy incomprehension of the limbic and reptilian brains. The dogged implicitness of emotional knowledge, its relentless unreasoning force, prevents logic from granting salvation just as it precludes self-help books from helping. The sheer volume and variety of self-help paraphernalia testify at once to the vastness of the appetite they address and their inability to satisfy it. (118) — Thomas Lewis

Maybe life on earth could be heaven, doesn't just the thought of it make it worth a try? — Bo Burnham

Moments ago, the U.S. Senate decided to do the unthinkable about gun violence
nothing at all. Over two years ago, when I was shot point-blank in the head, the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing. Four months ago, 20 first-graders lost their lives in a brutal attack on their school, and the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing. It's clear to me that if members of the U.S. Senate refuse to change the laws to reduce gun violence, then we need to change the members of the U.S. Senate. — Gabrielle Giffords

I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk. — Wyclef Jean

Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested. — John Henry Holland

Most stuff you can do standing on your head. — Tom Wilkinson

When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter. — Seth Godin

The essay community should have hundreds of anthologies from hundreds of different perspectives that are constantly introducing us to new writers, new work, and new visions for our genre. The whole spirit of these anthologies is that there should never be a last word in how essays are interpreted or what they can be. — John D'Agata

The dogged implicitness of emotional knowledge, its relentless unreasoning force, prevents logic from granting salvation just as it precludes self-help books from helping. The sheer volume and variety of helf-help paraphernalia testify at once to the vastness of the appetite they address and their inability to satisfy it. — Thomas Lewis

Forests are the lungs of our land ... — Franklin D. Roosevelt

What's your name?
Um ...
Think about it. You don't get to pick again.
Tris. — Veronica Roth