Subjects Quotes · Page 77

Suffering is our best teacher because it hangs onto us and keeps us in its grip until we have learnt that particular…

— Ayya Khema

The most frightening interview I've ever done was with Dr. Lonnie Thompson of The Ohio State University on the subject of global…

— Bill Kurtis

A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is…

— Matthew Henry

Like it or not, women are always subject to criticism if they show too much feeling in public.

— Anonymous

In my view (animal) knowledge is apt belief, where not only the belief (its existence and content) but also its correctness is…

— Ernest Sosa

Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own. If…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

— Benjamin Disraeli

And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.

— Eli Wallach

India knows that the subject of Land is not with the Central Government and the Centre does not require lands. All rights…

— Narendra Modi

Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.

— Erwin Schrodinger

There is no policy too sensitive to question, and no subject so taboo that you cannot even mention it.

— Lee Hsien Loong

My principal work now lies in tracing out the exact nature and conditions of utility. It seems strange indeed that economists have…

— William Stanley Jevons

Sanskrit language and the subjects in Sanskrit are both vital alike.

— Sushma Swaraj

We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think logicians hate my work, they detest it! And I'm like pornography, I'm sort of an unmentionable subject in the world…

— Gregory Chaitin

It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.

— Adrian Lyne

Men have various subjects in which they may excel, or at least would be thought to excel, and though they love to…

— Lord Chesterfield

Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of…

— Mary Hesse

After all, tragedy didn't discriminate, so everyone was subject to the same whims of fate.

— J.R. Ward

Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject…

— Rachel Carson

Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion.

— Roger Scruton

I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting,…

— Mads Mikkelsen

In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In…

— Edward Weston

Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.

— Vera Farmiga

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

— Harry Callahan

It's a pity I am so impatient and careless, as any ordinary person could learn all the techniques of photography in a…

— W. H. Auden

When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge,…

— Annie Dillard

No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

— Susan Sontag

I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous; and, after…

— Adam Smith

There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the…

— James Madison

He must be able to hear them [the counter arguments] from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and…

— John Stuart Mill

Before you shoot an irresistible subject, mute all your senses except sight to find out how much is left for the camera…

— Andreas Feininger

The best educators are the ones that inspire their students. That inspiration comes from a passion that teachers have for the subject…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I heard Professor Cannon lecture last night, going partly on your account. His subject was a physiological substitute for war-which is international…

— James McKeen Cattell

Self-appearing subjects and objects are the power of the baseless ultimate truth.

— Longchenpa

Through what I have witnessed and documented, with proper interventions you can break those cycles. When I made the first film on…

— James Redford