Direct Quotes

1825 quotes by 1446 authors

Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I come across them… — Wojciech Kurtyka
Can we take a direct flight back to reality or do we have to change planes in Denver? — Tim Allen
I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call upon men to… — Swami Vivekananda
Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds. — Oliver Sacks
Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in… — Stanley Kubrick
Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being. — Edmund Husserl
You shape your own life, and the shape of your life is determined to a great extent by your attitude. This is an area that… — Bob Proctor
I'm probably more personal when I'm acting than at any other time. More open, more direct. Because it allows me to be something that I… — Philip Seymour Hoffman
If youâ€™re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, youâ€™ve got… — James Dean
Your business and results are a reflection of you. Your business and results will grow in direct proportion to your own growth. — James Arthur Ray
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. — C.S. Lewis
The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to… — J C Ryle
A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Prayer changes from entreaty to thanksgiving, and meditation on the divine truths of faith fills the heart with a sense of jubilation and unimpeachable hope.… — Gregory Palamas
[God] arranged that the boy Samuel should be chosen but instead of teaching him directly He had him, turn once or twice to an old… — John Cassian
When government is invested with money power it rises above the citizen and under the profession of protecting him may actually constitute the greatest threat… — E.C. Riegel
In the 10 cities with the nation's highest obesity rates, the direct costs connected with obesity and obesity-related diseases are roughly $50 million per 100,000… — Michelle Obama
A snake knows more about what is happening around than any other creature, because it has no ears to listen to gossip - only direct… — Jaggi Vasudev
Nothing, absolutely nothing, has a more direct bearing on the moral choices made by individuals or the purposes pursued by society than belief or disbelief… — Ravi Zacharias

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