Mr. President, the cause of this great discontent in the country, the cause of the evils which we now suffer and which… — John J. Crittenden Copy Share Image
The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. .… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power. — Alison Assiter Copy Share Image
Some preachers master thier subjects; some subjects master the preacher; once in awhile one meets a preacher who is both master of,… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
An author frequently chooses solemn or overwhelming subjects to write about; he is so impressed at writing about Life and Death that… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
The truly educated man is not a man who knows a bit of everything, not even the man who knows all the… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
You've got to treat people as equals, and make them feel like it's their company. I don't know if I've had any… — Michael Milken Copy Share Image
Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Ideas about the scope and meaning of freedom of speech do expand and contract with the times. At the moment, we live… — Lawrence M. Friedman Copy Share Image
Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity. — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
The interaction between math and physics is a two-way process, with each of the two subjects drawing from and inspiring the other.… — Edward Frenkel Copy Share Image
Americans, more than most people, believe that history is the result of individual decisions to implement conscious intentions. For Americans, more than… — George Will Copy Share Image
As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it? — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Man..must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being..And, consequently, as man depends absolutely… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Writing about someone well known removes that obligation of defending it as a subject, but it also means that some of the… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let… — David Hume Copy Share Image
You can have a poem like "B-Movie" and sum up thirty conversations that people have had on the subject, but I wrote… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
By the time you get to your sixth record, some of the benefits of being in a band are grander than ever,… — Josh Homme Copy Share Image
As subjects, we all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Every medium by which people communicate can be subject to exploitation by those with illegal intentions. Nevertheless, this is no reason to… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Aside from the obvious, Francesca, what do you want in return for supplying information?” Bones asked, getting back to the subject. “You… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having. — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
Curiosity and listening [are the principles to an excellent interview]. I never go into an interview with a dedicated list of questions… — Michael Kay Copy Share Image
I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's… — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is really important to me. Part of the difficulty facing photographers is that almost any subject matter has accumulated a representational… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
We must remember that one of the most insidious ways of keeping women and minorities powerless is to let them only talk… — Mitsuye Yamada Copy Share Image
Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
[Regarding] the soul, I'm a little wary of any discourse on that topic that pretends to have an answer, so I tend… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The subject for which I am asking your attention deals with the foundations of mathematics. To understand the development of the opposing… — L. E. J. Brouwer Copy Share Image
These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image