25 Indirect Quotes for You to Enjoy

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour. Jonathan Swift

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I guess I'm more of a direct person than an indirect one. Holly Hunter

Guess Direct More Indirect Than Person

The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that they may be a candidate. James Rothman

Truth Knowledge Truth Is Some Indirect Nobel Nobel Prize Almost Sort Another Prize Candidate May Anyone Who Receives

The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect. Rene Dubos

Important Extremely Delayed Indirect Most Effects Pathological The Most Important Pollution

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. Simone Weil

Life Needs History Imagination Fabric Indirect Crowd Compulsion Never Because Always Real Materials Influence Dynamic Social Interests Social Life Conscious

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application. David Hume

Benefit Secret Philosophy Immediate Insensible More Indirect Results Arises Chief Than Influence Proceeds Which Manner Application

I knew for years I wanted to write a novel that addressed the personal trauma of my older sister, who suffered - and still suffers - from mental illness. For a long time I imagined - and I know it's absurd - that she was an indirect casualty of the Vietnam War. David Means

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Westlake is allusive, indirect, referential, a bit rococo, Stark strips his sentences down to the necessary information. Donald E. Westlake

Down Bit Strips Indirect His Information Sentences Stark Necessary

My experience of Chinese culture is indirect, through echoes. When I approach the cashier at my local Chinese supermarket, they switch to English before I've even said a word. They somehow know that I'm not quite Chinese enough. Gene Luen Yang

The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me. J. I. Packer

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Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers. James Woolsey

Ways Direct Indirect Suppliers Countries Huge Effectively Oil Paid

My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really. Jeremy Northam

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The work that Google is doing in China is indirectly benefiting the Chinese military. Indirect may not be a full characterization of the way it is. It's more of a direct benefit to the Chinese military. Joseph Dunford

Work Google Military Benefit Benefiting Way Characterization Direct More Indirect Indirectly Doing May China Chinese Full

Before seeing 'The Pride of the Yankees,' you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the ones who win the World Series each year. After seeing it you will find that the reference is indirect. Manny Farber

I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about. Tony Kushner

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