Direct Quotes

I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.

The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.

It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.

I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.

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.

...any effect to be successful must first be founded upon a simple method and then be performed with a direct to-the-point presentation.

Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly.

No teaching could be more direct than just to sit down.

Football is a direct reflection of life. There are wins, there are losses; you get knocked down, you get back up.

In each of us dwells a pilgrim. It is the part of us that longs to have direct contact with the sacred.

Your genius will shine through, and happiness will fill your life, the instant you discover your higher purpose and direct all your energies towards it.

You will find a way to make your message fresher. You'll find a way to make your connections in a way that will continue to inspire and direct and motivate. That's what I'm banking on.

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.

May each of you have the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute works that will leave the world a little better for your having been here.

The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

Eating is perhaps the most direct way we acknowledge or deny the sacredness of the earth.

Tarzan is direct; he doesn't ask Jane if they might have a meaningful relationship or if they can get together for lunch sometime.

The ability to be cool, confident, and decisive in crisis is not an inherited characteristic but is the direct result of how well the individual has prepared himself for the battle.

Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.

And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.

I'm very direct. I don't have tantrums. I don't yell or shout. I do expect an awful lot from my staff, but no more than I expect of myself.

I think everybody's crazy, and if I'm the one being a little direct about it, that's fine by me.

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one.

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.

Most people's lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups.

The pursuit by the Iranian regime of nuclear weapons represents a direct threat to the entire international community, including to the United States and to the Persian Gulf region.

In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action.

My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral

For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost always meant "never."

There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory.

That's immediately how I gauge how healthy a city is-by the amount of tags. It's just in direct competition with advertising. It's still one of the last things that hasn't been corrupted.

Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.

You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling.

I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.

One of the main differences between silent meditation and chanting is that silent meditation is rather dependent on concentration, but when you chant, it's more of a direct connection with God.

It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion-I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

I take a lot of inspiration from the nature of the universe and visualize my work as a direct or indirect reflection of life, inside and around us.

Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery