The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we're not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families.
What I aspire to is to have the viewer look directly at the subject, as if they're looking through a window at the real thing.
I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.
The lasting sweetness of the wealth obtained is directly proportional to the honesty of its source. Dishonest wealth does not last.
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
It is incorrect to assume that you cannot find any good in the point of view directly opposite yours.
For me, you've got to start from within. The things you eat directly affect the way you feel and the way you move.
I like it when I can hear directly from the writer: what they're seeing, what they're envisioning, and what their intention is.
Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
If we get the donations, I think we're going to raise a significant amount of money; some will be used for some administered costs, but the public portion of that will go directly into grants.
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
Rewards are directly proportional to the suspect and his peers' status in society: $100,000 was offered in the Moxley case. It meant nothing to millionaires.
Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending.
I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.
Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.
Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job.
Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.
Doorknob: Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.
I'm 100% Celt. In fact, I'm directly related to the progenitor of the high kings of Ireland, Niall of the Nine Hostages.
I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.
