Direct Quotes

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

Some people say I'm too blunt and I'm too direct, too straightforward. I think we could use some of that in Washington, D.C.

It was the straying that found the path direct.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.

We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way; this is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind, and this is achieved by means of meditation.

Today's marginalization of Christianity is a direct result of our failure to understand our faith as a total worldview.

The anointing of the Holy Spirit is given to illuminate His Word, to open the Scriptures, and to place the spiritual man in direct communication with the mind of God.

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.

As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

It's just not enough time on set. That's my favorite time. I live for that time on set. I feel like that's when I'm stretching and flexing my muscles and learning how to direct better.

We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.

You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not only direct your life, but change it permanently.

Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

Direct your mind where you want it to travel instead of always going for the ride.

Any illness is a direct message to you that tells you how you have not been loving who you are, cherishing yourself in order to be who you are. This is the basis of all healing.

Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.

Do not direct all your energies towards seeking pleasure but rather towards a sublime ideal. Your energies will then serve you and contribute to the realisation of your goal or ideal.

I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Love yourself and realize that whatever you attempt to achieve in Life is a direct reflection of you.

This is the copywriters task: not to create mass desire — but to channel and direct it.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.

When asked if direct sales is a pyramid scheme. My reply is a corporation has only one person at the top.

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.

War is simple, direct, and ruthless.

In social cognitive theory, perceived self-efficacy results from diverse sources of information conveyed vicariously and through social evaluation, as well as through direct experience

Cutting straight into color reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor.

I like to direct for the big screen.

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting works.

Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct and uncompromising.

I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song.

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.

Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service.

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth.

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

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 lives.

Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples.

All gifts from God are intended to direct our attention to God and create fresh affection for God.