#dire

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#benefits #corporate #cuts #democracy #direction

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#could #directly #emotions #english #express

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#deduction #direct #inference #intercourse #learn

My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me. ↗

— Kim Novak

#direction #expected #felt #go #i

And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take. ↗

— Dolley Madison

#army #dear #directed #filling #house

But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#direction #dreams #figured #go #going

For me, everything is still possible and I am as determined as ever. I believe first that the project of a people does not die. It is the project of freedom for a people, it is a project of sovereignty. And since the nation exists, it has the right to its own state. I will work to advance it in that direction. ↗

— Pauline Marois

#am #believe #determined #die #direction

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#day #direct #i #produce #rather

We still have not been able to move into those positions in our country that are really directing traffic among that 1 percent, and that's where women have to break through. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#among #been #break #country #directing

My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators. ↗

— Simon van der Meer

#contacts #directly #growing #handling #interest