Directly Quotes

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Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is; who… — Philip Guston
We must look deeply. When we buy something or consume something, we may be participating in an act of killing. This precept [non-killing] reflects our… — Nhat Hanh
To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not… — Aldous Huxley
Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers. — Nick Flynn
My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators. — Simon van der Meer
A viable new feminism must directly confront the realm of practice. — Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon evil. Thus fortitude… — Josef Pieper
The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart. — Sammy Hagar
Your quality of life is directly tied to the amount of love flowing in you and through you to others. Though it’s often overlooked, love… — Stephen Kendrick
I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here. — Shane Koyczan
By the time you’ve had a relationship with a horse for a while, there are characteristics in the way the horse behaves with you and… — Buck Brannaman
Nobody gives way to anybody. Everyone just angles, points, dives directly toward his destination, pretending it is an all-or-nothing gamble. People glare at one another… — Andrew X. Pham
People have often assumed that for music to be emotionally powerful it has to come directly from a human hand, whereas I disagree with that,… — Squarepusher
A community, a family, is a group of people who share common stories. The health of any community depends directly on the health of the… — Daniel Taylor
But there are important calls to both my personal life and professional endeavors about which I am excited to pursue, including projects and initiatives that… — Unknown Author
It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as if it were… — Jack Kornfield
The degree of sympathy we feel regarding another's fiasco is directly proportional to how easy or difficult it is for us to imagine ourselves, under… — Alain de Botton
Since no man ever can, or could, live by himself and for himself alone, the destinies of thousands of other people were bound to be… — Thomas Merton
Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best, it would appear, happiness can… — Oliver Burkeman
A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to require that people… — Michael Sandel
There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that… — Michael Sandel
I'm sitting here watching Hannah Montana, so I'm not going to annihilate 4.3 million Pakistanis without hearing directly from someone whose authority I recognize! — Andre Braugher
Now I get exposure first with people directly in the clubs. This is a unique situation for me. — Roy Ayers

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