Subjects Quotes
A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers.
Action learning particularly obliges subjects to become aware of their own value systems, by demanding that the real problems tackled carry some risk of personal failure.
Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.
Someone who is elated with wine speaks the truth on all subjects, even without meaning to. In the same way, anyone who is inebriated with the spirit of penitence will never be able to tell lies.
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.
I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.
People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.
Do you know why God subjects you to so many miseries? That He may bestow on you the riches of heaven.
You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.
When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.
Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.
American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject.
An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.
The presence of a king engenders love Amongst his subjects, and his royal friends.
The ancients, by their system of colonization, made themselves friends all over the known world; the moderns have sought to make subjects, and therefore have made enemies.
We must remember that one of the most insidious ways of keeping women and minorities powerless is to let them only talk about harmless and inconsequential subjects.
The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.
To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.
I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up.
Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.
Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.
Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.
Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should we continue to compel students to try to pass them?
No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever be able to provide one for 9/11. Such subjects overwhelm art.
I'm always trying to tackle subjects that tax me and make me think. That's the key to staying young at heart. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body.
On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him.
No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don't consider myself a dull subject.
Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation.
Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good.
Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.
We are evidently no friends of Satan. Like the kings of this world, he wars not against his own subjects. The very fact that he assaults us should fill our minds with hope.
Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you.
A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.
All topics, issues, and subjects in 'The Room' add to the depth of the characters in the movie, and they are equally important.
When settling disputes between his subjects, he should ensure that his judgement is irrevocable; and he should be so regarded that no one ever dreams of trying to deceive or trick him.
By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.
You always have to find something to say about the subject and in seven cases out of ten there is nothing to say.
A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.
The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.