The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means. — Bertha von Suttner Copy Share Image
We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
Sometimes indirect style and varying chronology is great, but quite often I've seen it be just something that gets in the way.… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
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… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay… — Charles Tilly Copy Share Image
I take a lot of inspiration from the nature of the universe and visualize my work as a direct or indirect reflection… — Jeet Aulakh Copy Share Image
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak… — Murong Xuecun Copy Share Image
The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated;… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Before seeing 'The Pride of the Yankees,' you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the ones who… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working in some indirect way,… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
Simply put, the direct power over the money supply is the indirect power over the people. — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
