Top 179 Indirect Quotes & Sayings

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.

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.

In most riots in India, Congress has had a direct or indirect involvement. History bears this out.

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

The theory of the indirect approach operates on the line of least expectation.

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences.

Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.

I was the chief sponsor of the Business Employment Incentive Program bill, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect jobs here in New Jersey.

I guess I'm more of a direct person than an indirect one.

Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.

It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code.

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.

I don't practise indirect free-kicks, but the technique and how I strike the ball I practise a lot.

The paraphrase of Gödel's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause its indirect self-destruction.

This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.

The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.

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

The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own effort is turned into the lever of his overthrow.

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.

Music is an indirect force for change

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack.. the direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers.

Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.

Very little mathematics has direct applications - though fortunately most of it has plenty of indirect ones.

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.

Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.

Westlake is allusive, indirect, referential, a bit rococo, Stark strips his sentences down to the necessary information.

Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.

The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.

The novelist can't successfully depict such horrifying reality. But she can, and must, try, to bear witness. There are many ways of doing this; the mode I prefer is indirect.

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

The picture is the imitation and converted reality of the goods, in short, an indirect substitute for reality.

At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.

Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.

At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything

The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.

Abuse is an indirect species of homage.

I have a position of indirect respect and oblique power.

...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

The effect to be sought is the dislocation of the opponent's mind and dispositions - such an effect is the true gauge of an indirect approach.

I also learned from reading the left-wing press about the [Franklin] Roosevelt administration's indirect support for Francisco Franco, which was not well known, and still isn't.

Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.

If there's any indirect way I can motivate or inspire Olympic athletes... that is one of the greatest honors. Even Natalie Coughlin saying that I inspired her. I'm so humbled by that. I think that's amazing.

There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.

Power works best when it is indirect - never coercing people; instead, getting them to voluntarily align with your interests.

Whether there's even an ocean on Pluto deep inside is a question I hope New Horizons can address in indirect ways.

When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.

As I said, this [repercussions] may take different forms : direct and indirect. Direct when people want to retaliate, or governments. Indirect when you're going to have instability and the spread of terrorism all over the region that will influence the west directly.

The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.

The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that they may be a candidate.

Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.

Everything direct is positive, everything indirect is negative.