Directly
In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.
In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary, but by direct, means.
Without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms.
Exactly; just.
Straightforwardly; honestly.
Manifestly; openly.
Straightway; next in order; without delay; immediately.
Immediately after; as soon as.
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Directly Quotations
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
Albert Einstein
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
John F. Kennedy
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Socrates
So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.
Barack Obama
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
Abigail Adams
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry Ford
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
Pablo Picasso
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
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan Poe
Directly Translations
directly in Afrikaans is regop
directly in Dutch is direct, overeind, rechtop
directly in French is directement, debout
directly in German is geradewegs, direkt
directly in Portuguese is diretamente
directly in Spanish is seguido
directly in Swedish is direkt, strax, rakt
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