I was the chief sponsor of the Business Employment Incentive Program bill, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The teacher’s first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. It’s influence is indirect,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann Georg Hamann.… — Isaiah Berlin 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
My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were formally included… — F. F. Bruce 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
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
The fisherman has a harmless, preoccupied look; he is a kind of vagrant, that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Our knees brush underneath the bar. Mine, bare past the hem of my skirt, and his, clad in the ugly-hot pants all… — Grace Reilly Copy Share Image
I'm very concerned with questions of language. This is what I think of when I think of myself as a writer: I'm… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
If the US government spends 40 percent of the nation's income, as it does through either borrowing or taxes, that income is… — Milton Friedman 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
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
As I said, this [repercussions] may take different forms : direct and indirect. Direct when people want to retaliate, or governments. Indirect… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there… — Corliss Lamont 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
Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a… — Adrienne Rich 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
Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
By giving too much importance to fine actions one may end by paying an indirect but powerful tribute to evil, because in… — Albert Camus 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
The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its… — A. V. Dicey 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
Knowledge about God is of two kinds, direct and indirect. Indirectly we can read scriptures, listen to sermons, consult authorities, and from… — Deepak Chopra 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
In the United States, except for slaves, servants and the destitute fed by townships, everyone has the vote and this is an… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The bad economist sees only what immediately strikes the eye; the good economist also looks beyond. The bad economist sees only the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course.… — Karl Polanyi 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
Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the… — Lord Acton 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
No doubt exists that rent seeking in general leads to serious inefficiencies in this direct sense, but its indirect damage is even… — Gordon Tullock Copy Share Image
Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image