Quotes with direction

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  • Honoré de Balzac If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Anton Chekhov If you cry "Forward!" you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a mond and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Anton Chekhov If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Anton Chekhov If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Edmund Burke In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Wendell L. Willkie In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.
    Wendell L. Willkie
    American lawyer, politician and corporate executive (1892 - 1944)
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  • Angela Merkel In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Arthur Machen It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.
    Arthur Machen
    Welsh author and mystic (1863 - 1947)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz It is better to go on striking in the same direction than to move one's forces this way and that.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Thomas Troward It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
    Thomas Troward
    English author (1847 - 1916)
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  • Jim Rohn It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Eric Hoffer It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites - opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity - where energies flow smoothly in one direction - there will be much doing but no music.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • W. H. Auden It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bipasha Basu It was Vikram Bhatt and 'Raaz' that got me interested in the medium of cinema. Before that, I was like any other youngster dabbling with various things - modelling, films - without a definite direction or focus. Now that I'm working with all of them, life has come full circle for me.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • Edward Hoagland It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Bob Rae Like sailors, we cannot change the weather or the direction of the wind. But we change the direction of our sails.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Five, The Second Question: Charity and Welfare
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Jean Baudrillard Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of the efforts being expended in that direction. The ''marketing'' immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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