Subjects Quotes

2964 Subjects quotes by 1987 unique authors

The meaning of a work is not what the author had in mind at some point, nor is it simply a property of the text… — Jonathan Culler
In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one. — Edward Abbey
I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of… — Edmund Burke
Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that have… — Samuel Adams
If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects… — Samuel Adams
And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to man and beast,… — Thomas Jefferson
I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of… — Thomas Jefferson
But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire… — Thomas Jefferson
The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration… — Thomas Jefferson
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor… — Thomas Jefferson
But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men… — Thomas Paine
It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas… — Thomas Paine
It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been told that my… — Yousuf Karsh
My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very… — Annie Leibovitz
I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start with your friends… — Annie Leibovitz
While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at… — Minor White
Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never… — Kurt Vonnegut
Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governour of the Universe:… — James Madison
The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were… — James Madison
A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it. — Ida Tarbell
The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing… — Eugene V. Debs
Africans… their tired. They’re tired of being the subject of everybody’s charity and care. We are grateful, but we know that we can take charge… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers. — Albert Bandura
It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of… — Olavo de Carvalho

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