A Quote by Lawrence Durrell

Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.

Lawrence Durrell

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Gravitation Implicit Love Mass Sorrow

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Lawrence Durrell
British - Novelist
February 27, 1912 - November 7, 1990

An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail.

Thomas Brooks

For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.

J. D. Vance

The first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever we have checked it. The second amazing thing about gravitation is how weak it is.

Richard P. Feynman

Writers of color are given certain messages - explicit or implicit - about what they're allowed to write about or what will be successful if they write about it. And white writers are given another set of implicit and, sometimes, explicit messages.

Jess Row

Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)

Dave Eggers

A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.

Jose Bergamin

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

Cynthia Ozick

I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all the perils and choleras of acquaintance implicit in them; but in London they seem as charming as rabbits.