Indirect Quotes

“Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“fruit of passive-aggressive people. These people resist demands by indirect tactics. They will not take responsibility for their own choices; instead, they turn around and blame someone else for making them do it. Or they will agree to do things that they don’t really want to do, and then gripe about the person behind her back.”
― Henry Cloud, Changes That Heal: How to Understand the Past to Ensure a Healthier Future

“The genius of Laplace was a perfect sledge hammer in bursting purely mathematical obstacles; but, like that useful instrument, it gave neither finish nor beauty to the results. In truth, in truism if the reader please, Laplace was neither Lagrange nor Euler, as every student is made to feel. The second is power and symmetry, the third power and simplicity; the first is power without either symmetry or simplicity. But, nevertheless, Laplace never attempted investigation of a subject without leaving upon it the marks of difficulties conquered: sometimes clumsily, sometimes indirectly, always without minuteness of design or arrangement of detail; but still, his end is obtained and the difficulty is conquered.”
― Augustus De Morgan

“When an obstacle’s too tough, you don’t hit it head-on. If an object is truly immoveable, it’s also nailed to one place. Find a way around it.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation

“Saying indirect Thanks, or something, change not its precision and value, so thank You; love You.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Our knees brush underneath the bar. Mine, bare past the hem of my skirt, and his, clad in the ugly-hot pants all chefs seem to wear when they work. He runs his finger over the rim of my glass, smudging the coral pink lipstick stain on the rim. As I watch, he sticks his finger— along with the traces of my lipstick— into his mouth and sucks it clean.
“Messy,” he chides.”
― Grace Reilly, Yes, Chef