Directly Quotes
1259 Directly quotes by 1006 unique authors
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There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through…
— Nan Fairbrother
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Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that…
— Yvon Chouinard
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Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the…
— David Abram
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Masonry is a search after Light. That search leads us directly back, as you see, to the Kabalah.
— Albert Pike
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Earth is a in-between world touched by both Heaven and Hell. Earth leads directly into Heaven or directly into Hell, affording a choice between the…
— Randy Alcorn
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I stand stark naked in front of the mirror and gaze directly into my own eyes. I utter 'Good morning, handsome' and my lips quiver…
— Zach Braff
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There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made.…
— Jacques Ellul
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If we can develop and design streets so that they are wonderful, fulfilling places to be - community-building places, attractive for all people - then…
— Allan Jacobs
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I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
— Carlisle Floyd
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We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books that are said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven,…
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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Every step in the progress of missions is directly traceable to prayer.
— Arthur Tappan Pierson
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I understand, of course, that grain-fed meat is not the cause of the world hunger problem-and eating some of it doesn't directly take food out…
— Frances Moore Lappé
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It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other,…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our police and our…
— Milton Friedman
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Action and feeling go together, and by regulating the action... we can directly regulate the feeling.
— William James
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It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the…
— John Zerzan
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Wes Clark is a man of whom you can ask a question, and he will look you directly in the eye, and give you the…
— Mario Cuomo
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I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with…
— Thom Gunn
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Then at one point I did not need to translate the notes; they went directly to my hands
— Francesca Woodman
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Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit alone on the…
— Raymond Scott
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The composer must bear in mind that the radio listener does not hear music directly. He hears it only after the sound has passed through…
— Raymond Scott
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If we want happiness, I think we should follow classic Greek wisdom and live with areté. The word directly translates as 'excellence' or 'virtue,' but…
— Brian Johnson
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One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring…
— William Matthews
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