Subjects Quotes · Page 199

Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.

— Douglas Adams

Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

After all, everyone's favorite subject is themselves.

— Neil Strauss

What's more, sharia finance is another tool of Islamic separatism; instead of assimilating into American society, Muslims are demanding, and receiving, parallel…

— Robert Spencer

Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?

— Studs Terkel

I try to neutralize my figures; I want them to be mythic and timeless. I want them to exist beyond time. I've…

— Joyce Tenneson

I think we need to think about Islamic tradition as a way of asking questions that cut across (and transgress) the assumptions…

— Talal Asad

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

— Ruby Wax

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

— Henri Matisse

Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by…

— Patrick Cleburne

It is necessary to salvation that all Christians be subject to the pope.

— Pope Boniface VIII

The [President's] Nomination, of Course, brings the Subject fully under the Consideration of the Senate; who have then a Right to decide…

— George Mason

Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I…

— Margaret Atwood

Portrait photography never had any charms for me, so I sought my subjects from the house-tops, and finally from the hill-tops and…

— William Henry Jackson

I want to show off how beautiful my subjects are, whether its a cheetah or a live girl or two of them…

— Bunny Yeager

I love directing, It means so much to me to direct stories about subject matter that I care deeply about. I can…

— Angelina Jolie

Polls are no substitute for leadership because, at its very essence, leadership is about giving people what they don't already have -…

— Hugh Mackay

I have no idea why she quieted down on the subject. Maybe she was told to. I can imagine that it wasn't…

— William A. Rusher

I am interested in the subject which is Russia.

— Tatyana Tolstaya

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you.

— Brian Tracy

The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship,…

— Max Stirner

On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him.

— C. S. Lewis

The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

— Walter Isaacson