Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The romantics were prompted to seek exotic subjects and to travel to far off places. They failed to realize that, though the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Photographing these flowers has made me see the world differently. It was as if I had lifted a secret veil from a… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
The corset is?a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subject's vitalityand rendering her permanentlyand obviously unfit for work. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions… — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to "spiritual" subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful fact that men and women saved by the blood of Jesus rarely remain subjects of charity, but rise… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition… — Samuel Reshevsky Copy Share Image
I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me. — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is… — Donal Henahan Copy Share Image
My wife would say my worst habit is that I'm not good at dropping subjects. If something bothers me, I'll bring it… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
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I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it… — Chris Bosh Copy Share Image
The journey from not knowing to knowing was his work. He was selling his desire to learn about a subject. — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
But after about a year praying, there was just this clear direction. The leadership team believed that God was leading us to… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy;… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To invest successfully, you need not understand beta, efficient markets, modern portfolio theory, option pricing or emerging markets. You may, in fact,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
The difference between an amateur and a professional photographer is that the amateur thinks the camera does the work. And they treat… — David Hemmings Copy Share Image
Kitty Kelley's method, already perfected in her unauthorised and unflattering biographies of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan, is to write bestsellers that… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
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