Best Explicit Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Cyrus seemed to be thinking as he sighed, “Hakim, in a way, I think Lionel follows Lester around because niggas are scared of him. The same way niggas are scared of you. Think about it, Hakim? The only time Lionel goes around Les is when you’re gone!” Whoa! Was Cyrus making a valid point? Yes, Les had a bag, cars, girls, respect, and people feared him because he wasn’t afraid of anything, but he was nothing like... Damn it all! Cyrus was right. “Lionel started hanging around Les when I started doing my shit and leaving all the time,” I realized, holding my jaw.”

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Book:King of Clubs

Source: King of Clubs

“No hesitation, his brain matter splattered like a blooming flower from the soil of his skull.”

Action Violence Horror Metaphor Explicit Descriptive Imagery

Book:The Cycle of Eden: Two Sides of Corruption

Source: The Cycle of Eden: Two Sides of Corruption

“The CEO knew cocks were bad for business. Breasts she could get away with. Women knew their place, but with men it wasn’t as simple.”

Sex Feminism Feminist Breasts Explicit Penis Objectification Of Women

Book:Dietland

Source: Dietland

“Accomplices listen with respect for the range of cultural practices and dynamics that exist within various indigenous communities. Accomplices aren't motivated by personal guilt or shame; they may have their own agenda, but they are explicit. Accomplices are realized through mutual consent and build trust. They don't just have our backs; they are at our side, or in their own spaces confronting and unsettling colonialism. As accomplices, we are compelled to become accountable and responsible to each other; that is the nature of trust. Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex. Taking Sides.”

Explicit Anti Racism Accountable Ally Accomplice Decolonialismzation

Author:Indigenous Action Media

“Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”

“As the world confronts the challenges of globalisation, the entertainment Industry and a web saturated with explicit sexual content, is increasingly making it difficult for young people to make informed decisions about sex”

World Sex Difficult Content Explicit Entertainment Industry Sexual Saturated Globalisation Web Young People Confronts

Book:The Unseen Terrorist

Source: The Unseen Terrorist

“It's difficult to make the argument that one female fist inserted into one male ass--or, for that matter, dozens or even hundreds of fists inserted into as many asses--can really make a difference for, say, lesbian mothers fighting for custody of their children. -Katherine Raymond”

Lgbt Explicit Queer Theory Sexual Orientation Sexual Power

Book:PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality

Source: PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality

“Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context.”

Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.”

Men Given Rights Deserve Constitution Protection Permanent Explicit

Author:Carolyn Maloney

“I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship.”

“Part of the triumph of modernist poetry is, indeed, to have demonstrated the great extent to which verse can do without explicit meaning and yet not sacrifice anything essential to its effect as art. Here, as before, successful art can be depended upon to explain itself.”

Art Can Do Successful Sacrifice Effects Essentials Triumph Poetry Is Verses Explicit

Author:Clement Greenberg

“The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.”

World Natural Fields Perception Setting Settings My Thoughts Explicit

Book:Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit.”

Ideas Clothes Seasons Superiors Arbitrary Explicit Utilitarian

Book:Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose

Source: Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose

“Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way. Being explicit doesn't tap into the mystical aspect of it either in fact, that usually kills it because people don't want to see sex so much as they want to experience the emotions that go along with it. These things are hard to convey in film because sex is such a mystery.”

People Way Want Hard Facts Film Sex Powerful Emotion Mystery Aspect Flats Mystical Doorways Explicit

Author:David Lynch

“I like the concept of shooting beautiful, aesthetic, cinematographic pieces, and still allowing them to be explicit”

Beautiful Aesthetic Explicit

Author:Erika Lust

“The gods have provided me with clear and compelling signs of what it means to live in conformity to nature. They did their part. So far as their gifts, aid, and inspiration are concerned, nothing prevented me from following the path prescribed by nature. If from time to time I have strayed from this path, the fault lies with me and with my failure to heed the gods' signs, or rather, their explicit instructions.”

Ifs Mean Inspiration Lying Path Clear Concerned Faults Following Aids Conformity Instruction Compelling Heed Explicit

Book:The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

“His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius, and to make the man of genius believe he can only do what is to be done by mechanical rules and systematic industry. This is not a very feasible scheme; nor is Sir Joshua sufficiently clear and explicit in his reasoning in support of it.”

Men Believe Done Running Can Do Common Support Clear He Man Industry Reader Genius Fancy Reasoning Schemes Hypothesis Systematic Explicit

Book:Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners

“As a Christian, part of my obligation is to alleviate suffering. Explicit recognition of that in the Methodist tradition is one reason I'm comfortable in this church.”

Reason Christian Suffering Church Comfortable Tradition Obligation Recognition Explicit Alleviate Methodists

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Presumed consent preserves freedom of choice, but it is different from explicit consent because it shifts the default rule. Under this policy, all citizens would be presumed to be consenting donors, but they would have the opportunity to register their unwillingness to donate.”

Different Would Be Choices Opportunity Policy Citizens Preserves Consent Register Default Freedom Of Choice Explicit Donors Donate

Author:Cass Sunstein

“You just have to change. To be successful, what you have to do is have an acceptance of risk and you have to be pretty explicit about that, because if you don’t accept risk, you don’t get any innovation. And that means part of risk is you have to accept failure because not everything works.”

Ifs Mean Accepting Successful Risk Acceptance Innovation Being Successful Explicit

Author:Michael Dell

“In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a way of life is implicit in all human culture as we know it. But the separation of the teacher's role from the role of all adults who inducted the young into the habitual behavior of the group, was a comparatively late invention. Furthermore, when we do find explicit and defined teaching, in primitive societies we find it tied in with a sense of the rareness or the precariousness of some human tradition.”

“As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize that, whether they like it or not, they are simply going to have to put up with what to them are excruciatingly slow mental processes, that we humans have embarrassingly low I.Q.'s, and that probably because of these defects, we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplist and most explicit of directions.”

Knows Mind Humans Wells Process Realizing Lows Cat Enormous Limitation Length Human Mind Defects Inability Explicit Infuriating

Book:The cat who came for Christmas ; The cat and the curmudgeon ; The best cat ever

Source: The cat who came for Christmas ; The cat and the curmudgeon ; The best cat ever

“For me, one of the most disturbing elements of the right wing's political agenda is that it believes that there is one correct spiritual and moral path for all people to follow. The danger inherent in this is its explicit refusal to accept anyone who happens to lead a different lifestyle, and the condemnation of those who differ.”

“The persistent advocates of contraceptive-style sex education have become more and more resourceful in using taxpayer funds to impose their casual-sex attitudes and explicit-sex instruction on other people's children.”

People Children Sex Attitude Style Fund Instruction Persistent Casual Taxpayers Explicit Resourceful Contraceptives Sex Education

Author:Phyllis Schlafly

“Someone in the society has to deal with the reality that there are finite resources and we're making trade-offs, and be explicit about that. When the car companies were found to have a memo that actually said, "This safety feature costs X and saved Y lives," the very existence of that memo was considered damning. Or when you made it reimbursable for a doctor to ask, "Do you want heroic care at the end-of-life," that was a death panel. No, it wasn't a death panel! It was asking somebody to make a decision.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Mayors are very different, because mayors can't be on both sides of every issue. Mayors have to take an explicit stance. Just go with your gut and say what you believe, and you'll be fine. If you're not fine, at least you'll like what you see in the mirror.”

Ifs Believe Different Sides Issues Fine Mirrors Guts Both Sides Mayors Stance Explicit

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.”

Thinking Political Challenges Direct Mark Contrast Ideological Explicit Logical Thinking Political Thinking

Book:In Defense of Politics

Source: In Defense of Politics

“You become a serious programmer by going through a stage where you are fully aware of the degree to which you know the specification, meaning both the explicit and the tacit specification of your language and of your problem. "Hey, it works most of the time" is the very antithesis of a serious programmer, and certain languages can only support code like that.”

Knows Problem Certain Language Support Stage Serious Degrees Hey Code Where You Are Programmers Explicit Antithesis Tacit Specifications

Author:Erik Naggum

“If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit.”

Ifs Mind Doe Speech Explicit

Author:Piet Pieterszoon Hein

“In the Fragments, sensations are more profound and richly clarified through deliberate and explicit pattern; emotions are given a sequence and development such as the exigencies of practical life rarely permit.”

Given Emotion Development Profound Patterns Practicals Sensations Permit Fragments Deliberate Sequence Explicit Practical Life

Author:Alton Tobey

“She goes to Frederick's of Hollywood at the mall and purchases an explicit lingerie outfit so sheer that you could read an appliance warranty through it in an unlit closet.”

Funny Hollywood California Sheer Closets Malls Explicit Lingerie Appliances Warranty

Book:Dave Barry Turns Forty

Source: Dave Barry Turns Forty

“He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner. He tries to compress as much thought as possible into a few words. On the contrary, the man who talks everlastingly and promiscuously, who seems to have an exhaustless magazine of sound, crowds so many words into his thoughts that he always obscures, and very frequently conceals them.”

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Author:Washington Irving

“Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.”

Mean Doe Care Genius Regulation Explicit

Author:Charles Henry Parkhurst

“For instance, in group therapy, I'll have people stand up, show off, give a speech about themselves as though they've just died and have to give a eulogy. Even with this explicit permission - even an order - to say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.”

People World Giving Shows Order Nice Groups Speech Clothes Died Hardest Instance Therapy Permission Hardest Thing Showing Off Eulogy Explicit Group Therapy

Author:Nancy Friday

“While "9 Songs" is sexually explicit in the basic sense, its directness is what's most fascinating, and ultimately most moving, about it.”

Moving Song Fascinating Sexually Explicit

Author:Stephanie Zacharek

“To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome.”

Nations Support Gains Congress Missions Clarity Outcomes Acceptable Explicit

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.”

Photography Difficulty Explicit

Book:Known and Strange Things

Source: Known and Strange Things

“But perhaps the most important innovation in the doctrine of jihad was its outright prohibition of all but strictly defensive wars. “Fight in the way of God those who fight you,” the Quran says, “but do not begin hostilities; God does not like the aggressor” (2:190). Elsewhere the Quran is more explicit: “Permission to fight is given only to those who have been oppressed ... who have been driven from their homes for saying, 'God is our Lord' ” (22:39; emphasis added).”

Source: No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam

“Of the properties of mathematics, as a language, the most peculiar one is that by playing formal games with an input mathematical text, one can get an output text which seemingly carries new knowledge. The basic examples are furnished by scientific or technological calculations: general laws plus initial conditions produce predictions, often only after time-consuming and computer-aided work. One can say that the input contains an implicit knowledge which is thereby made explicit.”

“I'm a guy who comes from a small town in the Midwest. It's not in my nature to say the most explicit things in public.”

Guy Towns Small Town Explicit Midwest

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“From May until October, the Ottoman Government pursued methodically a plan of extermination far more hellish than the worst possible massacre. Orders for deportation of the entire Armenian population to Mesopotamia were dispatched to every province of Asia Minor. These orders were explicit and detailed. No hamlet was too insignificant to be missed. The news was given by town criers that every Armenian was to be ready to leave at a certain hour for an unknown destination.”

“He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner.”

Thinking Littles Ideas Language Silence Direct Proportion Explicit

Author:Washington Irving

“There is an explicit way to define what explicit is.”

Way Science Mathematics Explicit

Author:Noga Alon

“What finally emerges from the 'clear and present danger' cases is a working principle that the substantive evil must be extremely serious and the degree of imminence extremely high before utterances can be punished...It must be taken as a command of the broadest scope that explicit language, read in the context of a liberty-loving society, will allow.”

Evil Language Justice Liberty Principles Cases Taken Clear Danger Serious Degrees Constitution Command Scope Utterance Explicit

Author:Hugo Black

“It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.”

Writing Trying Ends Stories Particular Universal Explicit Parables

Author:John Berger

“Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears the watchword "scientific objectivity" and of emerging at another door which looks out upon a variety of projects for changing, renovating, or revolutionizing society. In consequence, we feel the need of a more explicit account of how the student of society passes from facts to values or statements of policy.”

Source: In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963

“In brief, we have no explicit family policy but instead have a haphazard patchwork of institutions and programs designed mostly under crisis conditions, whether the crisis is national in scope (such as a recession ) or personal (such as a break-up of a particular family).”

Family Break Conditions Policy Particular Broken Program Crisis Institutions Scope Recessions Explicit Haphazard Patchwork

Book:All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“I see the situation of man in the world of planetary technicity not as an inexitricable and inescapable destiny, but I see the task of thought precisely in this, that within its own limits it helps man as such achieve a satisfactory relationship to the essence of technicity. National Socialism did indeed go in this direction. Those people, however, were far too poorly equipped for thought to arrive at a really explicit relationship to what is happening today and has been underway for the past 300 years.”

People Men World Years Has Beens Helping Today Past Situation Destiny Achieve Limits Happenings Tasks Essence Socialism Explicit

Author:Martin Heidegger

“Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit.”

Writing Art Purpose Culture Nations Explicit

Author:Mark McMorris

“In liberal society we claim that freedom of speech is sacred and therefore has an absolute character. But we know (or should know) that "free speech" inhabits a structured space: not only is "hate speech" legally forbidden in liberal societies, but there are also laws protecting the circulation of copyrighted material, and the reproduction of trademarks and patents without explicit permission.”

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