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Abuse is an indirect species of homage. — William Hazlitt

There is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible. — Miles Franklin

For Caesar met failure each time he relied on the direct, and retrieved it each time he resorted to the indirect. — B.H. Liddell Hart

I have a position of indirect respect and oblique power. — Drew Carey

Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you. — Kirsten Dunst

I take a lot of inspiration from the nature of the universe and visualize my work as a direct or indirect reflection of life, inside and around us. — Jeet Aulakh

The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me. — J.I. Packer

There is nothing more deceitful ... than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes and indirect boast. — Jane Austen

Quotations introduced by that are regarded as in indirect discourse and not enclosed in quotation marks. — William Strunk Jr.

Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one. — Thomas Hobbes

Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means. — Bertha Von Suttner

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour. — Jonathan Swift

the only choice is that between direct or indirect relations of domination and exploitation, with any alternative dismissed as utopian. — Slavoj Zizek

The picture is the imitation and converted reality of the goods, in short, an indirect substitute for reality. — Herbert Bayer

The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that they may be a candidate. — James Rothman

Maybe the Indirect Surveillance thing cost him brain cells. Good thing he was so pretty. — Erin Kellison

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. — Sun Tzu

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. — Emmet Fox

Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same. — Anais Nin

The effect to be sought is the dislocation of the opponent's mind and dispositions - such an effect is the true gauge of an indirect approach. — B.H. Liddell Hart

The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect. — Rene Dubos

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view. — Peter Conrad

Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back. — Simone Weil

Everything people do is because their need to do it,if it is not for direct need,then for indirect one, as: eating out of boredom not hunger. — Hadeer

Very little mathematics has direct applications - though fortunately most of it has plenty of indirect ones. — Gian-Carlo Rota

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower. — Vera Nazarian

Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare. — Helmut Jahn

Every action today leads to murder, direct or indirect. — Albert Camus

Music is an indirect force for change — Jesse Michaels

Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances. — Rene Dubos

Simply put, the direct power over the money supply is the indirect power over the people. — Orrin Woodward

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. — Jane Austen

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion. — Thomas Browne

There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too. — Clayton M Christensen

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments. — William Shenstone

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without. — Albert Camus

Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge. — Ramana Maharshi

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. — George Orwell

We are a manifestation that we perpetuate through space-time. Death is the ceasing of the observation of it whether by direct or indirect influence. — Solange Nicole

At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything — Rachel Weisz

They are moved less by the direct presence of their gods than by the more indirect feeling that they would somehow like their gods to be present. — Daniel L. Pals

Everything direct is positive, everything indirect is negative. — Martin Walser

Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers. — James Woolsey

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect ... — Ellen Glasgow