Subject Quotes

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To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have… — Simone de Beauvoir
I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment. — Stephen Breyer
The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and to apply the… — Sonia Sotomayor
I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's… — Maurice Sendak
Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of… — Pierre Bourdieu
The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject — Theodor Adorno
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations. — Oliver Stone
Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another. — Jonathan Lethem
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to… — Mary Augusta Ward
Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the… — Thomas Carlyle
All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change)… — Heraclitus
Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life — Protagoras
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears. — Edith Wharton
My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice. — Anne McCaffrey
Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim of… — Andrei Tarkovsky
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an… — Galileo Galilei
Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams… — Tom DeMarco
The subject matter that I am really spending my time on has become an acceptable subject matter. Living, lifestyle, family, is now in the forefront… — Martha Stewart
Every really good creative person in advertising has always had two noticeable characteristics. First, there was no subject he could not easily get interested in...Second,… — James Webb Young
One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it. — Paul Cezanne
Hurdlers are sprinters with a problem. They're not satisfied just to sprint. Anybody can sprint, some not as well as others of course, but anybody… — Unknown Author
I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my… — Charles Spurgeon
Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to… — Tom Peters
Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you are gravelled for… — Sylvia Townsend Warner

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