Direct Quotes

1825 quotes by 1446 authors

The past is what we have to learn about how to direct America to the future. — Rudy Giuliani
It's what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create… — Ben Stiller
I wrote a script and I've been whispering in director's ears for a really long time and I'd love to direct. — Jeremy Piven
Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that… — Leo Tolstoy
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities to believe that… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment. — Mark Twain
In April, I asked my staff to determine if Senate rules and relevant laws would allow me to direct the trustees to sell any remaining… — Bill Frist
We need to teach people that the environment has a direct bearing on our own benefit. — Dalai Lama
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears? — Juvenal
My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral — Ulysses S. Grant
Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things, God changes things,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those… — William Carlos Williams
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
I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the… — Vincent Van Gogh
Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John… — Claude Monet
I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable. — U Thant
Laughter lifts us over high ridges and lights up dark valleys in a way that makes life so much easier. It is a priceless gem,… — Alan Cohen
Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct. — Brian Tracy
The meditator develops new depths of insight through direct communication with the reality of the phenomenal world... He or she is able to see not… — Chogyam Trungpa

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