Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!
Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.
Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.
A constitution cannot possibly enumerate the means by which the powers of government are to be carried into execution.
Tact is the unsaid part of what you think.
Catch not at the shadow, and lose the substance.
The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.
There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.
Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him. [Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.]
Sometimes it's what you don't say that counts.
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
I think it's not about what you say; it's about what you don't say.
Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid.
We've got to do everything possible to improve policing, to go right at implicit bias.
I'm very much a "that's so obvious, I must not mention it" kind of guy.
Westlake is allusive, indirect, referential, a bit rococo, Stark strips his sentences down to the necessary information.
Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people's defenses.
Xena and Gabrielle were a couple...in the end, it was if not explicitly said, it was implicit that...yeah, they totally were.
The most dangerous negotiation is the one you don't know you're in.
I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime.
The greatest style is when you can't see the style though you walk away knowing it was there. It's like a perfume - there but not there.
No scene is ever about the words being spoken.
Trust is a thing you know without words.
Every one of us is prone to implicit sexual prejudices, including women.
