Direct Quotes
1825 quotes by 1446 authors
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Good habits are developed in the workshops of our daily lives. It is not in the great moments of test and trial that character is…
— Delbert L. Stapley
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Why is fear part of earth life? Perhaps our Heavenly Father’s greatest hope is that through our fears we may choose to turn to Him.…
— Virginia H. Pearce
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Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as an…
— James S.A. Corey
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I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.
— Xander Berkeley
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Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons.
— Douglas Rushkoff
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We will direct every resource at our command - every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence,…
— George W. Bush
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I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it.
— Dennis Franz
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For me it is the direct contact of artist to material which is original, and it is the earth and his contact to it which…
— Isamu Noguchi
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The singing Sun the signing moon the singing stars and the singing galaxies are the direct expression of the divine word AUM.
— Amit Ray
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The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
— Dorothea Lange
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The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me, all writing is…
— Nadine Gordimer
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War is simple, direct, and ruthless.
— George S. Patton
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Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in…
— Martin Luther
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All that you achieve and all that you fail to achieve are the direct results of your thoughts.
— John Spence
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In direct navigation, users type exactly what they are looking for in the browser's web address field. This could be the exact domain name or…
— Marc Ostrofsky
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Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be…
— Andrea Jung
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I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.
— J. G. Ballard
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They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.
— Marilyn Monroe
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When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct…
— Frederic Bastiat
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O most glorious God ... Direct my thoughts, words and work, wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb, and purge my…
— George Washington
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