Direct Quotes

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And new philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and the earth, and no man's… — John Donne
Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication… — Story Musgrave
Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor. Its uniformity protects… — Greg Kramer
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their… — Isabel Paterson
Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct your attention into… — Eckhart Tolle
When the governing representatives of the people legalize the shedding of innocent blood (as a for-profit business, nonetheless) then they have placed themselves, and those… — Tony Evans
The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims all men… — Antonin Scalia
Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull… — Jack Handey
The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action. — Unknown Author
There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve it — Denis Waitley
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions:… — Henry Wotton
"With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow… — Stephen Hawking
There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too… — Alan Watts
The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means… — Petra Kelly
In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak. — Joshua Leonard
God's guidance will require patience on our part. His leading is not usually a direct assurance, a revelation, but His sovereign controlling of the circumstances… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
When we direct our thoughts properly i.e. 'Things could be worse but aren't', we can control our emotions... i.e. and feel relieved, grateful, satisfied, hopeful… — W. Clement Stone
The only way to improve a trick is to find a simpler and more direct way of doing it. — Paul LePaul
...any effect to be successful must first be founded upon a simple method and then be performed with a direct to-the-point presentation. — Theodore Annemann

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