Direct Quotes
1825 quotes by 1446 authors
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Dear friends, let us not forget the flesh of Christ which is in the flesh of refugees: their flesh is the flesh of Christ. It…
— Pope Francis
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You may give a piece of bread to a hungry person, and when the cravings of hunger return some one else must administer to his…
— Daniel H. Wells
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Ten million new millionaires will be created by 2016, and you can become one of them--especiall y if you are in direct selling, technology or…
— Paul Zane Pilzer
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I once heard a theologian remark that in the Gospels people approached Jesus with a question 183 times whereas he replied with a direct answer…
— Philip Yancey
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In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way…
— Mark Nepo
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Your first encounter of the day has a more direct bearing on your attitude for that day than your next five encounters.
— Zig Ziglar
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How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.
— Paulo Coelho
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The most political decision you make is where you direct people's eyes. In other words, what you show people, day in and day out, is…
— Wim Wenders
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When you wake up to the Divine Consciousness within you and your divine identity, you wake up simultaneously to the Divine Consciousness appearing as all…
— Andrew Harvey
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The experience of happiness is a direct means of replenishing life energy and revitalizing the mind.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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I need not ask whether I may call on Him or not, for that word 'Whosoever' is a very wide and comprehensive one...My case is…
— Charles Spurgeon
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To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always…
— Eckhart Tolle
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It is a kind of law of nature. The goal one aims for can rarely be reached by a direct road.
— Konosuke Matsushita
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Social solidarity must rest (instead) on the sole secure basis it can have: direct responsibility of people for one another. Such responsibility can be realized…
— Roberto Unger
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The whole life-effort of man is to get his life into direct contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain life, cloud life, thunder…
— D. H. Lawrence
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The Good Lord in his infinite wisdom, did not create us all equal when it comes to size, strength, appearance, or various aptitudes. But success…
— John Wooden
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Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst…
— Napoleon Hill
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Problems come about when we try to direct the flow of the universe rather than allow it to reveal its own design. Inherent in that…
— Marianne Williamson
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Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous; some are heroic, and some are fearful and muddled. But every journey, honestly undertaken, stands a chance…
— Parker J. Palmer
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You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people, but how your…
— Patrick Henry
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