Top 100 In Direct Quotes
#1. It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.
Calvin Trillin
#2. Life has a funny way of creating it's own tests. It throws curve balls that make you do and think and feel things that are in direct conflict with what you had planned and don't allow you to operate in terms of black and white.
K.A. Tucker
#3. Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, Internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.
Werner Herzog
#4. That I am in direct mind-to-mind touch with extraterrestrial intelligence systems has been obvious to me for some time, but what this means is not in any way obvious.
Philip K. Dick
#5. What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.
Oprah Winfrey
#6. Leadership is giving out far more than one expects in direct return. The rewards are intangible, yet priceless.
T Jay Taylor
#7. DTH, as in direct to home?" she asked the question i had prepared my answer for.
"No DTH here is direct to heart," i said, hoping she would laugh this time.
Sumrit Shahi
#8. The amount of respect you have for others is in direct proportion to how much respect you have for yourself.
RuPaul
#9. The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
Marcel Proust
#10. The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.
Tom Landry
#11. The whole point of writing something down is that your voice will then carry for thousands of miles, whereas in direct conversation it fades at a hundred paces.
Matteo Ricci
#12. What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you've received. If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you have a lot of giving to do.
Johnnetta B. Cole
#13. The goodness of our intentions was in direct correlation to the heights from which we condescended to each other.
Adam Levin
#14. If the case be such indeed, that all mankind are by nature in a state of total ruin, then, doubtless,the great salvation by Christ stands in direct relation to this ruin, as the remedy to the disease.
Jonathan Edwards
#15. All Things are in constant relationship, and shamanic journey is the choice to put one's self in direct contact and concert with that relationship.
S. Kelley Harrell
#16. Working outdoors or from life puts you in direct contact with the life force, not just the light and the landscape, but also the vitality of the world around you.
George L. Carlson
#17. Socialism increases in direct ratio and proportion with the surrender of personal responsibility to neighbor.
Fulton J. Sheen
#18. Your happiness is in direct proportion to the amount you serve others.
Chris Matakas
#19. You will be paid in direct proportion to the value you create in the marketplace.
T. Harv Eker
#20. My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes out of that crucible of language - that working in poetry and prose is energizing - to me as a writer and to the work itself.
Alex Lemon
#21. Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least "deserving" in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty.
Philip Yancey
#22. Students engaged in direct experience with materials, unforeseen obstacles, and serendipitous discoveries may result in understanding never anticipated by the teacher.
Sylvia Libow Martinez
#23. I always wanted to see if I could sell a movie to the public without doing any marketing because my philosophy was like, 'Hey man, I'm reaching my audience everyday. I'm twittering with them. I'm in direct contact with them on the podcast.'
Kevin Smith
#24. bound to decay faster than normal upon coming in direct contact with wet ground. In addition, their cost is significantly higher
Kimberly Byrne
#25. The number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.
Tom Hopkins
#26. To utilize social media tools effectively and properly, you must absolutely generate spontaneous communications in direct response to what others are saying or to what is happening in that moment. Be yourself. Be conversational. Be engaged.
Aliza Sherman
#27. Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.
Tabare Vazquez
#28. Success in life is in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do.
Brian Tracy
#29. You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve
Elon Musk
#30. Most people are passive aggressive in this world. I have the idea that the human being is born with a kind of reservoir of aggression. We are inherently somewhat aggressive creatures and we either channel that in direct ways or we channel it in indirect ways and become passive aggressive.
Robert Greene
#31. The quality of people's lives is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour.
Vincent Lombardi
#32. That's immediately how I gauge how healthy a city is-by the amount of tags. It's just in direct competition with advertising. It's still one of the last things that hasn't been corrupted.
Barry McGee
#33. I think our lack of intimacy with the land has initiated a lack of intimacy with each other. What we perceive as non- human, outside of us, is actually in direct relationship with us.
Terry Tempest Williams
#34. Perhaps the most significant thing George Lucas did in creating 'Star Wars' was to fictionalize the Tao - to spark a universe where we can talk about the Force in objective terms and show it in direct action.
Matthew Stover
#35. The effectiveness of your ministry to people will be in direct proportion to the time you spend away from people and with God in a quiet time of preparation.
Elizabeth George
#36. Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.
Earl Nightingale
#37. To me, the money is - it's certainly a wonderful thing. But it is in direct proportion to how you're able to bless yourself and bless others with it.
Oprah Winfrey
#38. The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism' ... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.
John Gresham Machen
#39. Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.
James Woolsey
#40. There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.
Mark Rydell
#41. When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger.
W. E. B. Griffin
#42. Ten million new millionaires will be created by 2016, and you can become one of them
especiall y if you are in direct selling, technology or home-based business..
Paul Zane Pilzer
#43. The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
Armistead Maupin
#44. The aphorism "If you want something done, ask a busy woman" is in direct acknowledgment of the efficiency boot camp parenthood puts you through.
Caitlin Moran
#45. It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current.
Henry Fielding
#46. The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi
#47. I found in direct selling companies an education system designed to draw out the rich person in you.
Robert Kiyosaki
#48. What I'm doing in here isn't all that different from what I was doing outside. I'll hand you a pretty cynical axiom: the amount of financial help an individual or company needs rises in direct proportion to how many people that person or business is screwing.
Stephen King
#49. If you are anticipating the worst while hoping for the best, you will get the worst. The things that happen to you are in direct accordance with the things wherein you place your faith. Believe you are licked - and you are.
Harold Sherman
#50. In no way have we contemplated the intervention of the army in tasks that belong to police at the different levels of government. What is contemplated .. is support from the army in these tasks but not in direct actions that correspond to municipal, state and federal police.
Ruben Aguilar
#51. My inclination toward an action always plummets in direct correlation to someone's demand. Call me contrary.
Ann Aguirre
#52. The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to do it; and the difficulty in replacing us.
Earl Nightingale
#53. You can have faith in writing itself. That's where to place your faith, in the same way that a pole vaulter places his faith in the laws of physics. He will go up in direct proportion to the strength with which he pushed off, and he will come down every time.
Nancy Pickard
#54. A strange irony, Crott reflected, that the most base and lowly of London folk were the most honour-bound of all, and that the value of honour diminished in direct proportion to the heights of society a man climbed to.
Chris Wooding
#55. When you were a Goth, it was important to at least imply the possibility you might burst into flames in direct sunlight.
Joe Hill
#56. We will become mightier and more powerful in our own right in direct proportion to the service and contribution we make to strengthen the Church.
Henry D. Moyle
#57. The pain we feel When someone leaves our life is in direct proportion to the joy they bring while a part of our life for a few moments. In my life you made me feel as if I truly meant something to someone
Javan
#58. Modern US consumers now get to taste less than 1 percent of the vegetable varieties that were grown here a century ago. Those old-timers now lurk only in backyard gardens and on farms that specialize in direct sales
if they survive at all. Many heirlooms have been lost entirely.
Barbara Kingsolver
#59. In every instance I noted that a people's prosperity or misery lay in direct proportion to its freedom or its inhibitions and, along the same lines, of the sacrifice or selfishness of its ancestors.
Jose Rizal
#60. As a former NFL athlete, my quality of play on the field was in direct correlation to how I took care of my body. Bulletproof has many practical principles and tips on how, as men, we can thrive and not just survive as we get older. This is a must read.
Devon McDonald
#61. The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.
Brian Tracy
#62. Like what you see?" Asher asked him, that deep voice sounding scratchy and sexy as hell. "'Cause, you know, the angle of the dangle is in direct proportion to the booty of the cutie.
Cardeno C.
#63. Success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to our service.
Earl Nightingale
#64. The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.
Bill Gates
#65. That is the flip side, you see, to laissez-faire parenting. It succeeds or not, throughout the animal kingdom as it does with humans, in direct relationship to the strength of the offspring. Some of us don't need very much. Some of us need a lot.
Cynthia Rogers Parks
#66. You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.
Spider Robinson
#67. Your ability to build a successful sales career is in direct proportion to the quality and quantity of service you render on a daily basis.
Michelle Moore
#68. Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
Douglas Horton
#69. The degree to which you will awaken is in direct proportion to the amount of truth you are willing to accept about yourself.
Robert Anthony
#70. Every minute, every second, the pattern of genes being expressed in your brain changes, often in direct or indirect response to events outside the body. Genes are the mechanisms of experience.
Matt Ridley
#71. So now Stephen must actually learn at first hand hwo straight can run the path of true love, in direct contradiction to the time-honoured proverb. Must realize more clearly than ever, that love is only permissible to those who are cut in every respect to life's pattern.
Radclyffe Hall
#72. Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, hasbeen respected exactly to the degree that it went too far.
Rem Koolhaas
#73. Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.
James Joyce
#74. My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
Michael J. Fox
#75. A person employed in direct missionary work among the natives, especially if his employ is somewhat itinerant, can easily make long and interesting journals.
Adoniram Judson
#76. The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Marcel Proust
#77. My voice rings down through thousands of years to coil around your body and give you strength, you who have wept in direct sunlight, who have hungered in invisible chains, tremble to the cadence of my legacy: An army of lovers shall not fail.
Rita Mae Brown
#78. Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.
Brian Tracy
#79. Centers of influence are wholistic ministry centers, which connect church members with their communities and "place [them] where they will come in direct contact with those needing help."4
May Ellen Colon
#80. Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.
Elon Musk
#81. The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him wrong.
Harry Segall
#82. Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.
Kirkpatrick Sale
#83. Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion-I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.
Diane Sawyer
#84. We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate
Ilya Prigogine
#85. Our measure of hope is in direct proportion to our ability to conquer hopelessness.
LeeAnn Taylor
#86. The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.
Oprah Winfrey
#87. My personality just steps away, and I'm in direct connection when I'm on stage.
Diane Ladd
#88. Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived.
Aldous Huxley
#89. The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.
Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
#90. The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#91. Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them.
Maya Angelou
#92. The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships.
Anthony Robbins
#93. By first grade, my sense of worth was in direct proportion to what I learned and what I contributed back to the class. I had already become a human doing instead of a human being.
Sharon E. Rainey
#94. If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless.
Denis Diderot
#95. Am reading the life of Mozart and cannot help thinking that one's capacity for suffering is in direct proportion to one's greatness.
Lily Koppel
#96. The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
Denis Waitley
#97. The 'deep' civic function of the humanities ... is something understood very well by totalitarian societies, which tend to keep close tabs on them, and to circumscribe them in direct proportion to how stringently the population is controlled.
Mark Slouka
#98. Certainly, he was the only one in the room who'd actually engaged Dante in direct conversation and informed the Poet he was an ass.
Sylvain Reynard
#99. The problem is that one cannot easily build Charleston anymore, because it is against the law. Similarly, Boston's Beacon Hill, Nantucket, Santa Fe, Carmel - all of these well-known places, many of which have become tourist destinations, exist in direct violation of current zoning ordinances.
Andres Duany
#100. This is not a reaction to your words or actions, rather, it is in direct response to them
Deborah Brodie
