Direct Quotes

1825 Direct quotes by 1446 unique authors

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
…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
In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow… — William P. Young
But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty hazel trees, or… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Gazzy: "What does that mean?" (points to metal plaque warning to stay off the third rail that said Stay off the third rail!) Fang: "It… — James Patterson
It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life… — Milan Kundera
Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about… — Michael Crichton
I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison. — Anais Nin
What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light… — Terry Tempest Williams
I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience… — Derrick Jensen
Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas...Imported direct from Loompaland...And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most… — Roald Dahl
We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate — Ilya Prigogine
We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have… — Edward Abbey
You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it… — Napoleon Hill
They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if… — Laurell K. Hamilton
What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us… — Albert Schweitzer
To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window. — Albert Einstein

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