Subjects Quotes · Page 27

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.

— Richard M. Nixon

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

— Michael Rapaport

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

— C. S. Lewis

Make yourself master of one single subject and the time must come when your knowledge will be valuable.

— Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.

— Yann Martel

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

— Robert Kiyosaki

The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.

— Alexander Hamilton

I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.

— Jerry Seinfeld

Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

On one hand you want to see your subject well. On the other hand, you want to be caught off guard to…

— Harold Feinstein

I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample…

— Samuel Rutherford

Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.

— Bertrand Russell

I have tried to draw the human effigy (and all the other subjects dealt with in my paintings) in an immediate and…

— Jean Dubuffet

The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and…

— Bill Brandt

I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects... Born and bred up in the sweet…

— William Cobbett

The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.

— Louis Aragon

It just so happens that people aren't doing comedy about abortion or cannibalism or waterboarding. And that to me doesn't necessarily mean…

— Rob McElhenney

In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have…

— William Ralph Inge

Everything that I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing added. It…

— Ellsworth Kelly

I do select a soundtrack for each of my subjects and again my assistants you know they make fun of me because…

— Carol Friedman

America interests me above all because it is so filled with contradictions, interesting contradictions, which change constantly. Even if you've decided that…

— Sergio Leone

There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices…

— Bill Watterson

The love of God again makes us free, for it draws us to set a low value on those things wherein we…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects;…

— Thomas Hobbes

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his…

— Honore de Balzac

General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has…

— Lawrence Venuti

Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke,…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The difference between an amateur and a professional photographer is that the amateur thinks the camera does the work. And they treat…

— David Hemmings

This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on…

— Mark Bostridge

Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through…

— Susan Griffin

If we set out with... a scrupulous regard to the Constitution, the government will acquire a spirit and a tone productive of…

— Alexander Hamilton

The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.

— Walter J. Phillips

I think there are definitely a lot of subjects I don't share with people, but I'm not sure where that border is.

— Jens Lekman

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

— George Santayana

I'm inspired by making people laugh at subjects that should make them cry.

— Anthony Jeselnik

The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.

— Amiri Baraka

Basic Economics 101. It's the most complicated simple subject there is.

— Rush Limbaugh

It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!

— Thomas A. Edison