Top 100 Directs Quotes
#1. Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
Bill Hybels
#2. I'm a Lebanese woman who directs films. That's not it at all. I am not really a woman nor am I really an Arab. Because I am not an apologist for women, nor of sentimental "world" films.
Danielle Arbid
#3. The Commander in Chief directs that Divine service be performed every Sunday at 11 o'clock ... It is expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an example to their men.
George Washington
#4. Any film that you see is never just the director. If it's a film that you love, it's not so easy to say, "Oh it's directed by this person - that means everything that person directs is going be wonderful."
Vin Diesel
#5. Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream, it takes over as the number one hormone; it bosses the enzymes; directs the pineal gland; plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to film is more film.
Frank Capra
#6. Your body is a form of energy slowed down to assume the appearance of mass. And the mind directs the energy that determines the form.
Terry Cole-Whittaker
#7. Dr. Esserman, who directs the Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center, is one of only a few surgeons in the United States willing to put women with D.C.I.S. on active surveillance instead of performing biopsies, lumpectomies or mastectomies.
Katie Hafner
#8. A book lets you choose how much of the blood you want to see. A book gives you the permission to see the story as you want, as your mind directs.
Caroline Kepnes
#9. Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.
Sophocles
#10. Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#11. I should never, perhaps, have heard even the name of the woman who has lived in all my thoughts, who has possessed herself of all my energies, who has become the one guiding influence that now directs the purpose of my life.
Wilkie Collins
#12. Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.
Og Mandino
#13. God never directs in a way contrary to His character. When the Scriptures tell us that He will direct our paths, we can be assured that when He is in control, no matter how thorny the path, He will not tell us to jump off a cliff.
Billy Graham
#14. is the part of the hook that determines the size of the stitches. This part is also sometimes referred to as the shank. When a pattern directs a
Amy Wright
#15. Knowing nature is part of knowing God. Faith directs us to the invisible God, but leads us back from God to the entire visible world.
Arnold Albert Van Ruler
#16. The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances, and free acts of angels and men, and directs everything to its appointed goal, for His own glory.
J.I. Packer
#17. Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God, that bids them fly, Thy arm directs those lightnings through the sky. Then let the good Thy mighty name revere, And hardened sinners Thy just vengeance fear.
Walter Scott
#18. The cold hand of the past emerges from the grave of our ancestors, grips us by the neck and directs our gaze towards a single future. We
Yuval Noah Harari
#19. The word of God is the Christian soul's best weapon, and it is essential to have it with him always. In doubt it decides, in consultation it directs; in anxiety it reassures; in sorrow it comforts; in failure it encourages; in defense it protects; in offense it is mightier than the mighty.
Wilfred Grenfell
#20. The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
Pope John Paul II
#21. Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven.
Dennis Oppenheim
#22. But the guarding of our desires is more than fighting a rear-guard defensive action against temptations from the world, the flesh, and the devil. We must take the offensive. Paul directs us to set our hearts on things above, that is, on spiritual values (Colossians 3:1).
Jerry Bridges
#23. Having a Christian worldview shapes my decision-making with respect to all aspects of my life. I always respect people in public life who are principled, and those principles have to be connected to something. And my faith is what serves as the anchor and directs my actions.
John Thune
#24. Hope gives us the ability to open our eyes and think, belief takes us through the valleys and faith directs us straight to the place of seeing the unseen.
Euginia Herlihy
#26. the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and a newspaper directs. Yet
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#27. It is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#28. Often, in the student's confusion, she or he directs anger at the teacher, blaming them for the pain they are experiencing, or for their own mistakes.
Frederick Lenz
#29. God must speak to us before we have any liberty to speak to him. He must disclose to us who he is before we can offer him what we are in acceptable worship. The worship of God is always a response to the Word of God. Scripture wonderfully directs and enriches our worship.
John Stott
#30. The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.
Earl Nightingale
#31. Our God is a God who cares, heals, guides, directs, challenges, confronts, corrects. To discern means first of all to listen to God, to pay attention to God's active presence, and to obey God's prompting, direction, leadings, and guidance.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#32. One who directs to good is rewarded similar to the doer of good.
Ibn Majah
#33. Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
Lord Chesterfield
#34. And, pleased th' Almighty's orders to perform,
Rides in the whirl-wind, and directs the storm.
Joseph Addison
#35. I take a deep breath and let him tilt my shoulders back. I gaze up, and he peers down at me. He kisses my eyes, my mouth - deeply, sensually - stirring my depths.
He undresses me as he blesses my skin with his kisses. "Lay down," he directs. I'm bare, vulnerable, open, and full of love.
Isabelle Joshua
#36. I know that God lives, my brothers and sisters. There is no question in my mind. I know that this is His work, and I know that the sweetest experience in all this life is to feel His promptings as He directs us in the furtherance of His work.
Thomas S. Monson
#37. Close to 80 percent of all terrorist activity in Samaria was directed and financed either by Hizbullah or the Iranians. Iran continues to increase its involvement in terror attacks inside Israel, particularly through a small but radical minority of Israeli Arabs which Iran supports and directs.
Ariel Sharon
#38. When Jesus directs us to pray, "Thy kingdom come," he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence.
Dallas Willard
#39. You will know if you are on the right path when God directs your choices, not your spouse or significant other.
Shannon L. Alder
#40. According to one definition, doctrine is teaching from God about God that directs us to the glory of God.
Anonymous
#41. Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
Ansel Adams
#42. A well-trained mind directs circumstance.
Toba Beta
#43. No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set.
John Milton
#44. The same God who directs the earth in its orbit, who feeds the burning furnace of the sun, and trims the lamps of heaven, has promised to supply thee with daily strength.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#45. Loneliness in travel directs you and tells you about yourself. You don't become lonely unless you're alone.
Paul Theroux
#46. Wow has a reverberation - wowowowowow - and this pulse can soften us, like the electrical massage an acupuncturist directs to your spine or cramped muscle, which feels like a staple gun, but good.
Anne Lamott
#47. He who governs himself according to what he calls his principles may be punished either by one party or the other for those very principles. He who proceeds without principle, as chance, timidity, or self-preservation directs, will not perhaps fare better; but he will be less blamed.
J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
#48. love-based thought that focuses on the possibilities and directs the situation toward a happy outcome.
Doreen Virtue
#49. On the other hand, Allah directs man to the spiritual purity through the act of giving that is represented by charity that the pious pays as "Zakat" and "Sadakat" almsgiving, and other financial obligations.
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
#50. The Lord is in all of our lives. He loves us. He wants to bless us. He wants us to seek His help. As He guides us and directs us and as He hears and answers our prayers, we will find the happiness here and now that He desires for us. May we be aware of His blessings in our lives.
Thomas S. Monson
#51. I love 'Girls.' The writing is so clever. I think Lena Dunham is a genius. I can't believe she writes it, directs it and stars in it. It's really exciting that a young woman has been able to achieve all of that.
Helen George
#52. I grew up with two sisters, no brothers. There was Ronny who produced "Happy Days" for me and my sister Penny who acts, directs - she does everything. So they were very strong women in my life.
Garry Marshall
#53. Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
W. Somerset Maugham
#54. Choice. - The question is, What influences, directs, or determines the mind or Will to come to such a conclusion or choice as it does?
Jonathan Edwards
#55. A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
Sigmund Freud
#56. Someone who directs a film, they have to see the overall picture, and they have to get the best performances out of the actors.
Joshua Bell
#57. Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule.
Satyajit Ray
#58. The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spiderweb of the micrometer.
Maria Mitchell
#59. A written constitution guides and directs the application of law in a way utterly unlike oral guidance. It reminds us that the certainty and consistency of legal application is essential.
Edwin Meese
#60. The Holy Ghost does not come upon methods, but upon men. He does not anoint machinery, but men. He does not work through organizations, but through men. He does not dwell in buildings, but men. He indwells the Body of Christ, directs its activities, distributes its forces, empowers its members.
Samuel Chadwick
#61. heart lurches because the glance he directs at me displays neither love, nor hate, but a careless indifference,
Magda Alexander
#62. The beginning, directs and orchestrates millions of events and circumstances every day.
Jerry Bridges
#63. Ambition is what gives birth to imagination and then imagination directs the bearing towards its pursuit.
Newton Gatambia
#64. The mind of man plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps. PROVERBS 16:9
Charles R. Swindoll
#65. Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.
Lew Wallace
#66. Even as the needle that directs the hour,
(Touched with the loadstone) by the secret power
Of hidden Nature, points upon the pole;
Even so the wavering powers of my soul,
Touch'd by the virtue of Thy spirit, flee
From what is earth, and point alone to Thee.
Francis Quarles
#67. Purpose is the engine, the power that drives and directs our lives.
John R Noe
#68. When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.
Philip Yancey
#69. When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.
Terence
#70. The law is the anchor of our feelings. If the law holds our feelings well, it directs our feelings well. If however, the laws fails to hold our feelings well, our feelings become free enough for us to do what we feel freely
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#72. Purpose directs passion and passion ignites purpose.
Rhonda Britten
#73. My fear drives me. My faith directs me. I am an entrepreneur.
Farshad Asl
#74. Working with a guy like Ice Cube on 'Ride Along,' you learn so much. He's a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn't do. I do nothing but soak up information.
Kevin Hart
#75. No director directs 'Game of Thrones' without reading all the episodes and knowing what's going on. All the episodes are written in advance, so you can do that, which is an important point.
Alex Graves
#76. The government has, in all countries, a vast influence, in determining the character of the national consumption; not only because it absolutely directs the consumption of the state itself, but because a great proportion of the consumption of individuals is gained by its will and example.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#77. So long as we use comfort and security as our criteria of success, we will fear our own intuitive guidance because by its very nature it directs us into new cycles of learning that are sometimes uncomfortable.
Caroline Myss
#78. We make our plans, but God directs our steps.
Rachel Hauck
#79. Sometimes I have something stuck in my head and that directs the rhyme that I'm writing with.
Courtney Barnett
#80. Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#81. A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a man to look within. If it succeeds, then there, within him, is the beginning of his learning.
Soren Kierkegaard
#82. If the judgement makes the law and not the law directs the judgement, it is impossible there should be such a thing as an illegal judgement given.
John Howard Griffin
#83. Self-evaluation directs us to prepare our next performance from the past and today's experiences.
Auliq Ice
#84. Power doesn't create happiness or unhappiness. It depends how you use it. Wisdom is the guiding force that directs happiness.
Frederick Lenz
#85. Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
B.C. Forbes
#86. Acting's fine if the script's written by Paddy Chayefsky and Martin Scorsese directs it, but unless you have something like that, I don't really enjoy acting.
Jeff Garlin
#87. Before Midnight is one of the years best movies. Full to the brim with humor, heartbreak, and ravishing romance. Richard Linklater directs with ardor and artistry. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy shine brilliantly. Heads up, Oscar. This ones a keeper.
Peter Travers
#88. The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present. He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity.
Walter Lippmann
#89. Respice finem; that is to say, in all your actions, look often upon what you would have, as the thing that directs all your thoughts in the way to attain it.
Thomas Hobbes
#90. The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.
Barbara Cartland
#91. It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
Chinua Achebe
#92. Love gives nothing but itself, and takes nothing but from itself. Love does not possess, nor would it be possessed. And do not think that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
Kahlil Gibran
#93. It was really cool because you can tell that she directs in a way that she wants to be spoken to, as an actress. That's really nice, and you appreciate that. Dealing with the actors was more important to her than anything else, which was really nice.
Laura Prepon
#94. I feel like everyone directs their own career according to their taste, what they migrate to emotionally and what kind of artists they want to work with. And I'm lucky enough to be in a position where I can wait six months for a project that really interests me.
Kirsten Dunst
#95. Once the inspiration comes, that directs where the perspiration goes.
Carole King
#96. The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause.
Immanuel Kant
#97. The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw material only. Natural selection directs the course of evolutionary change.
Stephen Jay Gould
#99. God directs his people not simply to worship but to sing his praises "before the nations." We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.
Timothy Keller
#100. It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.
Radha Mitchell
