"Too much zeal offends where indirection works." — Euripides
"Too much zeal offends where indirection works."
More Indirection Quotes
- Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection… — Max Lerner
- I don't find any direct statements in life. My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness come to… — John Ashbery
- All problems in Computer Science can be solved by another level of indirection. — Butler Lampson
- I once heard a theologian remark that in the Gospels people approached Jesus with a question 183 times whereas he… — Philip Yancey
- Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which… — Alfred Kazin
- There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection. — Rob Pike
- Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection. — Italo Calvino