Indirect famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
-- Albert Camus -
... so long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect ...
-- Ellen Glasgow -
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
-- Emmet Fox -
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.
-- Francis Crick -
Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.
-- Helmut Jahn -
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.
-- Jeet Aulakh -
there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.
-- Miles Franklin -
There is an overwhelming mass of authentic evidence which can be cited as: direct observation, indirect observation, and supporting evidence or indication....
-- Morris K. Jessup -
Simply put, the direct power over the money supply is the indirect power over the people.
-- Orrin Woodward -
The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.
-- Rene Dubos -
My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My knowledge of myself starts at the core; that of others at the crust.
-- Salvador de Madariaga -
Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.
-- William Shenstone -
Everything direct is positive, everything indirect is negative.
-- Martin Walser -
The picture is the imitation and converted reality of the goods, in short, an indirect substitute for reality.
-- Herbert Bayer