Subjects Quotes

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An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen. — Benjamin Disraeli
Now before going to a party, I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me... to try to know them… — Brenda Ueland
....all the things and events we usually consider as irreconcilable, such as cause and effect, past and future, subject and object, are actually just like… — Ken Wilber
The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects. — Lafcadio Hearn
I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies. — Walter Isaacson
A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic. — Aristotle
... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may… — Plato
There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry. — Unknown Author
A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood.… — Eudora Welty
There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise. — Robert Breault
It's a subject that is often hidden and very secretive, but it's something which I feel should have a light shone upon it. — Fern Britton
An act of heroism, of extraordinary courage, the grandeur of it, won't easily inspire us to act in imitation, but it can inspire us to… — John McCain
I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war itself became controversial… — Henry A. Kissinger
Small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please about a given subject. But there are usually proponents… — Edward Bernays
Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it. — Jim Rohn
The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there. — Jim Rohn
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject. — Dorothy L. Sayers
Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject a… — Brian Sutton-Smith
Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world… — Irving Penn
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her.… — Irving Penn
Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself.… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or… — Philippe Halsman
In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles.… — Philippe Halsman
I may juggle the composition, as the strength of a picture is in the composition. Or I may play with the light. But I never… — George Rodger
Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it, — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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