Direct Quotes

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Our freedom of choice in a competitive society rests on the fact that, if one person refuses to satisfy our wishes, we can turn to… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me..." As they make their way through the… — Brennan Manning
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. — Malcolm Gladwell
All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...]… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer. — Anais Nin
The gossip will carry to Attolian spies, who will report to Relius, Attolia's master of spies, and he will carry the news to her." "Her… — Megan Whalen Turner
The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy. — Noam Chomsky
The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen… — Aristotle
As she lifted the glittering strand of diamonds from the box, a small slip of paper fell out. She caught it as it wafted toward… — Karen Marie Moning
She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture. — Arundhati Roy
Gideon laughed. "I like to be direct." "Okay," I said. "But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages."… — E. Lockhart
I like to be direct." "Okay," I said. "But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages." "I doubt… — E. Lockhart
The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships. — Tony Robbins
Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course,… — Jincy Willett
...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media free, non-interpreted contact… — Milan Kundera
It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in… — Alain de Botton
I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head… — Yann Martel
Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me.… — Charlaine Harris
And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own… — Khalil Gibran
We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country. — Alexis de Tocqueville

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