This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking... — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Most of my books are about contemporary subjects, and the world changes so fast that I'm lucky when events haven't overtaken the… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
I have never understood the importance of having children memorize battle dates. It seems like such a waste of mental energy. Instead,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can debate this or that aspect of climate change, but the reality is that most people now accept our climate is… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end? — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by everything, really. I'm inspired by locations and travel, I'm inspired by art and music, I'm inspired by people. When… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
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My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Traditionally the Nude was used to express formulations about life as larger-than-life, as Heroic or Ideal... The nude is not a 'genre'… — Isabel Bishop Copy Share Image
I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while… — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
...realize in your daily life that 'matter' is merely an aggregation of protons and electrons subject entirely to the control of Mind;… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about… — Ken Gillespie Copy Share Image
It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Let there be but two occasions for speech - when the subject is one which you thoroughly know and when it is… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
But it is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
What is essential to understand at this point is that until now there was no such thing as mind and matter, subject… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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