Direct Quotes

1825 quotes by 1446 authors

Laws which legitimize the direct killing of innocent human beings through abortion or euthanasia are in complete opposition to the inviolable right to life proper… — Pope John Paul II
History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products of the soil.… — Hugh Hammond Bennett
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. — Walter Lippmann
Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I am alarmed when… — Henry David Thoreau
Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your… — Al Jarreau
The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result… — Charles Rosen
My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me… — Tony Visconti
The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company… — Fisher Stevens
Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth;… — Leland Stanford
Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you. — Samantha Morton
I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth. — Ben Lindsey
As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor. — Samuel Johnson
Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in individual geniuses. But… — Gaston Bachelard
The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. ... [Whereas] the physicist's reality, whatever it may be, has few or none of the… — G. H. Hardy
When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which… — Vincent Van Gogh
When we have the Spirit to direct us, we are capable of teaching with great power. — L. Tom Perry
I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only… — Richard P. Feynman
Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now,… — Chuck Mangione
The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of… — William Stanley Jevons
We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or our… — Carl Jung

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