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We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us.
View quotes by Michael Crichton

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

When things have an effect on those around you, then in some ways it is your business even if it doesn't affect you directly.
View quotes by Henry Green

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

It was really fantastic and quite unexpected to get the reaction that it did [to her book], and the responses from people directly was very humbling indeed.
View quotes by Carol Gilligan

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
View quotes by Michael Korda

We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us
View quotes by Hannah More

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

View quotes by John Stuart Mill

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
View quotes by Abigail Adams

Most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalising lest they come back to haunt me. [a wise strategy indeed]
View quotes by Brian Ferneyhough

If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world.
View quotes by Robert Coleman

'I did not see the whole. I only saw this rock ahead of me; I only saw this poisonous snake which I had to kill in order to take the next step. I only saw the problem directly in front of me. If I had seen the whole thing, I would have been too overwhelmed to have attempted this.'
View quotes by Henry Morton Stanley

Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged.
View quotes by Paul Begala

A Room of Own's Own, by Virginia Woolf, opened my eyes to the untold stories of women's lives, and has influenced me both directly and indirectly, both as a journalist and as a novelist.
View quotes by Anita Diament

The process of renewal and reinvigoration that your premiership has inspired is without precedent. In each of our constituencies remarkable achievements have resulted directly from the policies of Labour governments since 1997
View quotes by Mark Tami

'You know, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable. But this moment is directly connected to those childhood imaginings. And for anybody who's on the down side of advantage and relying purely on courage, it's possible.'
View quotes by Russell Crowe

Citrus labels went beyond nature and spoke directly to fantasy: apricot, purple, cobalt blue, sea green, cinnamon, cinnabar, mauve, yellow, orange.
View quotes by Kevin Starr

The truth is that if you have experienced some of those things directly, then you will not flinch or be deterred by many things.
View quotes by Dorothy Gilman

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
View quotes by Agatha Christie

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

View quotes by William James



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