Direct Speech Quotes

#1. Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.

Edwin Newman

#2. (If this goes on, all communication everywhere will be through text messages or computers, and direct speech between two people, without a machine, will be outlawed.)

Ray Bradbury

#3. Also, whenever you have direct speech, and I don't quite know why, but it always gets better in English. Dialogue, the flow of dialogue, English just has a better way with it.

Daniel Kehlmann

#4. Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God's essence. As one Sufi master has argued, why spend time reading a love letter (by which he means the Quran) in the presence of the Beloved who wrote it?

Reza Aslan

#5. Generate great impressions. This is a direct result of setting higher standards for yourself in your speech, dress, living environment, grooming, etiquette, study, research and commitment.

Archibald Marwizi

#6. Donald Trump foreign policy speech got good reviews, and it says we're going to defeat the people who are direct threats to us, but we're going to be a lot more cautious about getting involved in long-term, Wilsonian adventures.

Jeff Sessions

#7. At times I feel such unbearable sadness . . . For a world with so much beauty, there is just so much cruelty." She

M.A. Larson

#8. Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me ... " As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.

Brennan Manning

#9. If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.

Solon

#10. Direct and easy communications - freedom of speech in all forms and its broadest sense - has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.

Walt Disney Company

#11. How does a mortal make answer to what his or her kind are capable of? Does each of us, soldier or no, reach a point when all that we've seen, survived, changes us inside? Irrevocably changes us. What do we become, then? Less human, or more human? Human enough, or too human?

Steven Erikson

#12. Your listening, not your speaking, is your most direct access to leadership effectiveness.

Al Ritter

#13. You don't preach to hear yourself, you preach to heal the church.

Darrin Patrick

#14. If you want your style to be energetic and lively, take the most direct route and use the most energetic and lively part of speech in the English language: verbs.

Stephen Wilbers

#15. Our souls are wired for what we will never enjoy until Eden is restored in the new heaven and earth. We are built with a distant memory of Eden.8

Gary L. Thomas

#16. I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#17. He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.

Davis Bunn

#18. The things that hurt us the worst in life end up being the same as those that mean to us the most.

Ramona Matta

#19. Aside from the collective gain that comes from that free interchange of ideas, there is a direct personal value for the individual concerned. Each of us should have the right to speak his thoughts and to hear the thoughts of others ...

Charles Rembar

#20. Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse.

Ram Dass