The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.
Maggie Gallagher

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.
Robert Delaunay

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
Talcott Parsons

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.
Jerry Pournelle

The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
Oriana Fallaci

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Alfred Hitchcock

The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.
John Le Carre

The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money.
Robert Byrd

The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.
Bernard de Mandeville

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.
Dan Quayle

The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them.
Charles E. Wilson

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
Douglas Engelbart

The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.
Sammy Hagar

The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting.
William Kirby

The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.
John Nelson Darby

The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion.
Robin Morgan

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.
Charles Henry Parkhurst

The second Cocoon questions that and deals much more directly with the value of living in the real world with its trials and tribulations. I would say it's about that and not about aging or death.
Daniel Petrie

The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle.
John L. Phillips