Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.

How you treats others is indirect way of saying how you feel about yourself.

— Blaze Olamiday

“His indirect way of approaching a character or an action, striving to realize it by surrounding rather than invading it, is ideally suited to…

— Herbert A. Wise

Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the…

— Charles Tilly

Writing fiction, for me, is a more indirect form of self-exploration than writing verse. When I'm working on a novel I'm moving characters around…

— Nick Laird

A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is directand…

— Chauncey Wright

The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of…

— Carl Sagan

...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

— Rene Dubos

Sometimes indirect style and varying chronology is great, but quite often I've seen it be just something that gets in the way. It turns…

— Alice Mattison

I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. In…

— Sun Tzu

Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you --…

— John Wayne

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory.

— Sun Tzu

We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.

— Bertha von Suttner

The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean…

— John Searle