Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Give me a thrill, says the reader, Give me a kick; I don't care how you succeed, or What subject you pick. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also,… — Derek Mahon Copy Share Image
The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I write about power, that's my real subject - how you get it, what you do with it, how you abuse it.… — Rene Balcer Copy Share Image
I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I feel like it's my responsibility to honestly cover a lot of subjects in part because I have two little girls and… — Carre Otis Copy Share Image
The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
All life on Earth is subject to the rumbles and rockings of the parent stucture which has no control over the disastrous… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
My non-fiction films are pretty much fiction, or at least close... It's all "movies" for me. I never have searched for a… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong,… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Some labor this side of the veil, others on the other side of the veil. If we tarry here we expect to… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The 16th Amendment corroded the American concept of natural rights; ultimately reduced the American citizen to a status of subject, so much… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
There's a lot of people that I disagree with that I think I could have interesting conversations with. What I don't want… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
The effects of heat are subject to constant laws which cannot be discovered without the aid of mathematical analysis. The object of… — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
No subject was more important in the 2014 elections than healthcare, and Republicans in Congress should waste no time in taking decisive… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best… — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit. — Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges Copy Share Image
Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what… — Ryan Giggs Copy Share Image
What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse — John Hampden Copy Share Image
Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you. — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
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