Subject Quotes

I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject.

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.

I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to any subject.

I think we all have a need to know what we do not need to know.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

I have been insane on the subject of moneymaking all my life.

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages.

The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

On the Web no subject is sacrosanct. No one, from icon to unknown, is off-limits.

Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.

I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

Race is a subject about which there are points of agreement, and about which there is no agreement; a subject that is either spoken of reluctantly, or not spoken of at all.

I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine.

Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.

At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so he knows some of my subject.

Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.

This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.

In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.

I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic.

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.

Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.

After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.

People misunderstand me.

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.

And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.

The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.

I hate being the subject of photographs.

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.

I find myself a fascinating subject.

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject.

I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.

I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

The male elites that run most countries are exceedingly uncomfortable with the subject of AIDS because it's a sexually transmitted disease.

I didn't really have a favourite subject at school as I was useless at everything.

We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.

So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced.

I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging.

I'm not an expert or a trained ballistician. But it is a subject I've studied intently for 50 years, so I may know a thing or two. In my opinion, the JFK investigation was poorly handled.

When it comes to dividing Americans on the basis of their gender, I know a little something about the subject.

Betrayal... is my favorite subject.

Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny - or not so tiny - leap of the imagination is made.