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
there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible. — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
In most riots in India, Congress has had a direct or indirect involvement. History bears this out. — Piyush Goyal Copy Share Image
Simply put, the direct power over the money supply is the indirect power over the people. — Orrin Woodward 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
Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means. — Bertha von Suttner Copy Share Image
All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
You have to believe in a placebo or it wont work, but if it works, its obviously working in some indirect way,… — Charles Jencks 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
This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces… — B. H. Liddell Hart 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
A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation.… — Anonymous 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
The paraphrase of Gödel's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause… — Anonymous 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
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
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
There have been a number of philosophers who have reveled in the dismantling of truth. I think they did so with good… — Julian Baggini 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
To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
The institution of representative government to us seems an essential part of democracy, but the ancients never thought of it. Its immense… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces… — B. H. Liddell Hart 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
“The genius of Laplace was a perfect sledge hammer in bursting purely mathematical obstacles; but, like that useful instrument, it gave neither… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
For any business that has an indirect model to move into the direct business is very difficult and very challenging. — Ted Waitt 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
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge. — Ramana Maharshi 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
Westlake is allusive, indirect, referential, a bit rococo, Stark strips his sentences down to the necessary information. — Donald E. Westlake 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
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