Direct Quotes

America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed.

We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. Theres a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.

Working outdoors or from life puts you in direct contact with the life force, not just the light and the landscape, but also the vitality of the world around you.

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.

If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do what you want.

I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.

Haitian diplomacy will be oriented toward the influx of foreign capital, direct investments that create jobs and stimulate economic growth.

Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

I'd love to direct a film, but I don't think I have the temperament for it. I'm very hyper, and I want things to be done ASAP. If I turn director, I might end up killing my actors.

If you decide to direct a film, it's because you have something to say, something to show to the audience.

How soon will you realize that the only thing you don't have is the direct experience that there's nothing you need that you don't have?

Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration.

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.

Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.

There's a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives.

Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves.

No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.

I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.

Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.

The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships.

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography

For all filmmakers: True originality is the key, only direct your own unique movie scripts, be a megalomaniac and not give a damn.

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

The whole aim of Zen is not to make foolproof statements about experience, but to come to direct grips with reality without the mediation of logical verbalizing.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. Thats what writing a screenplay is.

The way you can recognize to what you are committed to is by your actual results. What you have gotten in life is a direct result (good or bad) to what you have been committed to.

Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels.

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.

Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up.

My father, good or bad, mistakes or no, had a direct line from his heart to the music to the people, to the audience. He played with logic and his own inner truth.

The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.

Direct elections on the spot to all representative organs, up to the supreme organ, are a better guarantee of the interests of the working population of our boundless country.

Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.

I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like that comfortably. It'd be a feature, it'd be something maybe that I had in writing as well.

The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person, a violation of rights that is endemic in society.

Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.

Continued focus on (employee) turnover is of critical importance, because of the direct relation of turnover to improvements in labor costs and guest satisfaction.

There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is a Charlie Chaplin movie. The hard part is knowing the difference.

There is a direct correlation between the books you read and the success you achieve.

If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

Bringing a direct connection between ENTER. and MINUS, Maceo Plex delivers his CONJURE TWO EP that represents both the stripped down sound of MINUS and the atmosphere of ENTER.Ibiza!

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.