Top 246 Indirectly Quotes & Sayings

It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you tell kids they're stupid--directly or indirectly--sooner or later they start to believe it.

One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.

It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively.

Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.

It tends to be overlooked that many people are indirectly affected by thoughtless and cruel journalism.

I and others may be revolutionaries but we are disciples of Mahatma Gandhi, directly or indirectly, nothing more nothing less.

You must learn to deal with your own beliefs directly or you will be forced to deal with them indirectly.

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

As humans, we do get to choose what we eat, and when we choose to eat a plant, we are eating (i.e., harming) just that plant, plus indirectly whatever nutrients that plant consumed over its lifetime (and we are also harming whatever beings may have been living on that plant or who were injured or killed in the harvesting process). But when we eat an animal, we are eating not just that animal, but also indirectly all of the plants and other beings that that animal ate over its lifetime - those plants became the flesh that we eat.

We overthrew the feudal system in the 1600s, and the theocracy in the 1700s. But currently, corporations play similar roles in many of our lives, either directly or indirectly.

We're also more affected by aspirational signals in an offline world where it is more difficult to "hide" and thus indirectly increases the influence from others.

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.

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

Some people will be quite happy you have failed and will find a way to tell you so directly and indirectly. Yep, that is life. Do not let their insecurities impact you.

Separation prevents the government from determining church policy, whether directly or indirectly.

I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."

I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for her father's death. No matter how much she was in love with him.

I want to help people either way, whether it's directly or indirectly.

The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.

At any given time, there are ideas and images that can only be communicated indirectly.

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals.

One should do nothing other than what is directly or indirectly of benefit to living beings.

Art is many things but, directly or indirectly, it always describes the human condition.

Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

It would, of course, be wrong to say that the arts have no social value. They have tremendous power and can often, indirectly, make our world a better place to live in.

Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

With their charm and legendary sense of humor, the British directly or indirectly paved the way for a large number of European compromises.

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

Whether I'm involved or indirectly involved, I screw things up all the time.

Bellator is indirectly creating the stars division - I'm 42 now - where stars fight each other.

I can only approach things indirectly, or I can't approach them at all.

India is a groundwater civilization. Almost all Indians use groundwater, directly or indirectly, each day.

I think the biggest influence on the book, as far as the humor goes, comes, at least indirectly, from the men I worked with in the paper mill. Some of them could make a dog laugh.

Whatever effects one directly, effects all indirectly.

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East. That is why we are in contact with most of the problems forever, let us say, whether directly or indirectly.

Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.

Big business always serve - directly or indirectly - the masses.

In a community all acts of individuals and of organizations are directly or indirectly interconnected and interdependent

I feel like I'm indirectly showing people, not that there's another way, but just that if you really have a dream, you should try and give it a go.

Everybody I interacted with in my life, directly or indirectly, has placed a fingerprint upon my life. That combination has made me who I am.

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly.

Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.

My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.

Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.

No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.

The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result

You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.

I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations.

I don't believe the federal government should be involved in the creation of standards directly or indirectly, the creation of curriculum or content. It is clearly a state responsibility.

As long as we are one of the most expensive countries to produce in, we should focus on cutting costs that directly and indirectly weigh on business.

If you're going to be a great guide to what's great for consumers, and, indirectly, for investors, you've got to be very careful about who you contract with and what you're offering.