Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before. — Eric Rohmer Copy Share Image
Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
God speaks with authority on every subject including marriage and His advice trumps Oprah's every time. — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Lobbyists are in many cases expert technicians and capable of explaining complex and difficult subjects in a clear, understandable fashion. They engage… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I say, then, that viewed from that standpoint, there is but one single subject of complaint which Virginia has to make against… — John Brown Baldwin Copy Share Image
It is always amazing to see how wide a spectrum of results can be obtained from replicating an identical negotiation with different… — Howard Raiffa Copy Share Image
...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
All Governments rest mainly on public opinion, and to that of his own subjects every wise Sovereign will look. The opinion of… — Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon Copy Share Image
The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I think she [Eleanor Roosevelt] never was called because she probably didn't know an awful lot. The whole burden of the criticism… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
It is a thoughtless and immodest presumption to learn anything about art from philosophy. Some do begin as if they hoped to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight. — Clive James Copy Share Image
Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology.... Its importance has been enormously increased by the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent,… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
About six years ago, Life magazine ran an article on the historicity of Jesus and I was floored to find that they… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adèles, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
If the Holocaust that you talk about was real, why don't you allow the subject to be studied? One can freely research… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
People complain that the religious ground is unsure who have never compelled themselves to examine it with a tithe of the care… — Peter Forsyth Copy Share Image
It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It is alleged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
I know that obviously, that if you want to get the story, if you want to get close to somebody, if you… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special… — Caleb Deschanel Copy Share Image
'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' is without a doubt the best film we are ever likely to see on the subject - unless… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Self-absorption is always a temptation to young people, and if their religion is of a sort to add to this self-absorption, I… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
I wanted to keep the complexity of the female experience in the film as much as it is in the book, and… — Erin Cressida Wilson Copy Share Image
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I've never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing. — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical… — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject.… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image