Direct Quotes

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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
Why is fear part of earth life? Perhaps our Heavenly Fatherâ€™s greatest hope is that through our fears we may choose to turn to Him.… — Virginia H. Pearce
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
I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing. — Xander Berkeley
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
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
I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it. — Dennis Franz
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
The singing Sun the signing moon the singing stars and the singing galaxies are the direct expression of the divine word AUM. — Amit Ray
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
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
War is simple, direct, and ruthless. — George S. Patton
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
All that you achieve and all that you fail to achieve are the direct results of your thoughts. — John Spence
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
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
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
They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic. — Marilyn Monroe
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
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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