Direct Quotes

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I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was… — John Jakes
She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not gravity's pull, laws… — Thomas Pynchon
I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. — Henry David Thoreau
One must see in every human being only that which is worthy of praise. When this is done, one can be a friend to the… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do… — James Dean
We who have touched war have a duty to bring the truth about war to those who have not had a direct experience of it.… — Nhat Hanh
I never asked my mother where babies came from but I remember clearly the day she volunteered the information....my mother called me to set the… — Sloane Crosley
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure… — Marie Curie
There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual… — George Eliot
Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen. — Leo Tolstoy
Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of… — William James
â€¦I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as… — Lawrence Durrell
I'm still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk than I'd like… — Caroline Knapp
When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning… — Peter Matthiessen
Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience. — Thomas Watson
It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it. — P.D. James
... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of "other"… — Edward Said
My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human… — Albert Einstein
Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why not admit the… — Sam Harris
Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography — Henry David Thoreau

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