Top 1200 Direct And Indirect Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one.

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

Sookie," Eric said. I didn't think he'd heard a word. "Yield to me." Well, that was pretty direct.

Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.

The conditions that direct the order of . . . the living world . . . are marked by their persistence in improving the birthright of successive generations.

In the direct-to-consumer channel, we continue to look at the entire world as an extension opportunity for all of our brands.

I have a sort of long-term plan to direct. I'm pragmatic about it. I realize I don't need to rush it or force it.

There are so many factors that go into directing. It's honestly a logistical nightmare for a lead to direct themselves in an episode.

I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.

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

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact.

Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.

When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.

I guess my job has always been to build the music, direct the videos, to do all the things that usually fall behind the scenes.

The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.

You can't really feel the direct change from one president to another versus people closer to you in local elections.

With my research, I really need absolute confirmation of what actually happened, direct physical connections to the past.

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave.

Qing Cheng Mountain was a direct influence on the mysterious final shot of 'Kung Fu Panda 2.'

Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.

It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.

Women say things that are direct - they are told they are too abrasive. I got that feedback in the corporate world.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

It's not necessary that every film that I direct will have dance in it. I would love to explore different areas.

I hope to direct at some point, but I don't feel the pressure to rush it. I want to really know what it is that I'm doing.

The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.

I'm actively looking for things to direct again. I had such an amazing experience on this. I really am spoiled.

'Prisoner' is not a direct 'I've just been divorced' album, although that fire is burning very well on the record.

I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.

When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.

I've been producing projects, and I hope that It's inevitable one day that I direct a film. I have a lot of things I want to do.

My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that.

English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary.

Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.

I direct as many shows as I can fit in between 'Strictly Come Dancing' and other performance stuff.

Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.

Writing fiction, for me, is a more indirect form of self-exploration than writing verse. When I'm working on a novel I'm moving characters around and I'm thinking about plot and there's a lot of other things going on at the level of structure and story. With a poem, a single idea or line or emotion can sometimes be enough - there's often a sense, in the best poems, of capturing a single instant. Perhaps poems differ from prose in the degree of solace they can offer - by speaking so personally, so directly, about shared experience. A few lines of poetry can provide comfort.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you've received. If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you have a lot of giving to do.

The weird thing about having an alligator on set is that you can't be in the direct line of sight, or they might start charging at you.

I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.

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

My brother's a blast to direct; he's one of those great characters who brings so much to every scene he's in, and we're pals.

I've gotten to a point where I wouldn't direct someone else's material. It would only be something totally original.

There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.

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

It's possible that we'll screw up the climate so badly that most of us will die and a few breeding pairs will remain somewhere in the arctic. What's more likely is that we'll continue remaking the planet, driving many species to extinction, killing millions of people through the indirect effects of climate change, making life even harder for the poor and powerless than it is now, and making it a little more difficult for the global middle class to live the lives to which they have become accustomed - in other words, business as usual, only worse.

Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.

Sometimes you just get giggles leprosy and it can't be helped. I find that there's a direct correlation between fatigue and breaking.

Unless you are wealthy, you cannot afford to act or direct one play and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

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

'Communication Breakdown' - it was punchy and direct, with a real attitude that was different to other bands going around.

Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.

I make sure when I direct that it's a very joy-based set that hopefully is filled with a lot of respect.

Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.

All of my acoustic playing came from my songwriting. All of the chords I've learned and all of the voicings I play them in are a direct result of composing.

I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.