Direct Quotes

1825 Direct quotes by 1446 unique authors

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
State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not… — John Marshall
Using the risk-based approach presented by the ISPE Guide (i.e., system and component level classification) limited qualification activities to verifying and testing critical aspects of… — Robert A. Young
No more fatuous chimera has ever infested the brain than that you can control opinions by law or direct belief by statute, and no more… — William Borah
If you feel besieged by life today, lean on the God of peace - the God of hope and the future. The same God who… — David Jeremiah
California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is where the car… — Fareed Zakaria
... if one were to refuse to have direct, geometric, intuitive insights, if one were reduced to pure logic, which does not permit a choice… — Henri Lebesgue
I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is not by a… — Louis Agassiz
I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer… — John Forbes Nash
Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct — Marcel Marceau
Whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of all possible reasons… — James Henley Thornwell

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