In most riots in India, Congress has had a direct or indirect involvement. History bears this out. — Piyush Goyal Copy Share Image
Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare. — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
There is an overwhelming mass of authentic evidence which can be cited as: direct observation, indirect observation, and supporting evidence or indication… — Morris K. Jessup Copy Share Image
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods… — Albert Camus 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
WhatsApp will bring Facebook another billion users. We will be a billion-user product. Whether there is a direct valuation or an indirect… — Brian Acton Copy Share Image
Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too. So many young people I speak… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
The novelist can't successfully depict such horrifying reality. But she can, and must, try, to bear witness. There are many ways of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
I think [John Adams's] influence on the federal Constitution was indirect. Many including James Madison mocked the first volume of Adams's Defence… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
We destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.And your education! Is not that also social, and… — Walter Ciszek Copy Share Image
Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I hope to make pictures like I walk in the desert—under a spell, an instinct of motion, a kind of knowing that… — Ellen Meloy Copy Share Image
Poetry has an indirect way of hinting at things. Poetry is feminine. Prose is masculine. Prose, the very structure of it, is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For the institutions of the European Union are at present incomplete. A European Senate is badly needed to complete them. By creating… — Larry Siedentop Copy Share Image
The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be… — Carl David Anderson Copy Share Image
Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or… — Peter Conrad Copy Share Image
Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The theory of the indirect approach operates on the line of least expectation. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Every thoughtful, well-meaning and conscientious human being should assume in time of peace, the solemn and unconditional obligation not to participate in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I also learned from reading the left-wing press about the [Franklin] Roosevelt administration's indirect support for Francisco Franco, which was not well… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Long as I have lived, and many blasphemers as I have heard and seen, I have never yet heard or witnessed any… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious.… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience ... indirect practical experience may be the more valuable… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image