Direct Quotes

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
Plutarch

Nothing, Adversity, Prosperity

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
Marcel Proust

Woman, Her, Passing

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
James Allen

Life, Thoughts, Fail

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
Moliere

Road, Error, Haste

We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
Mary McLeod Bethune

Change, Good, Power

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
David Friedman

Children, Small, Problem

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Life, Strength, Through

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

Give, America, She

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.
Steven Spielberg

Sunday, Rather, Twice

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden

Friends, Opinion, Between

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.
Adrienne Rich

Life, Women, Rejection

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.
Noam Chomsky

Control, Try, Become

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Richard M. Nixon

Sympathy, Philosophy, Learn

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
Tom Stoppard

When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.
William Shatner

Suck, Scenes, Filmed

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.
Tom Hopkins

Trying, Keep, Succeed

In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.
Adele

Songs, Interviews, Explaining

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.
Christopher Hampton

Life, Great, Human

I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.
Steven Spielberg

Good, Enough, Become

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
Ed McMahon

Success, Important, Single

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden

Society, Place, Unique

I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.
Demetri Martin

Fun, Acting, Movie

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Person, May, State

Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.
Jamie Lee Curtis

Life, Positive, Successful

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.
Billy Corgan

Learned, Older, Appreciate

Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.
Arthur Scargill

Change, Important, Understand

I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon.
Adele

Together, Wanted, Child

I only direct in self-defense.
Mel Brooks

Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
Swami Sivananda

Life, Wise, Rest

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
Francis Ford Coppola

Movies, Book, Wanted

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