Subjects Quotes
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We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
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Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you.
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We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.
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But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.
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I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.
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Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to be forced to become rapacious, a prince must consider it of little importance if he incurs the name of miser, for this is one of the vices that permits him to rule.
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If it's a likeness, alone, it's not a success. If, through my portraits, you can come to know the subjects more meaningfully, if it synthesizes your feelings toward someone whose work has imprinted itself on your mind--if you see a photograph and say, 'Yes, this is the person,' with a little new insight--that is a beautiful experience.
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I have come, Sire, to complain of one of your subjects who has been so audacious as to kick me in the belly.
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The best ruler, the one who is of any real value, should not only perform all the duties which fall to his lot, but should provide for the rest of his subjects, so that they can develop their virtues to the full.
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That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.
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I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.
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A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise.
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You are not your body. It is just something you wear for a while, because living in the earthplane is infinitely more meaningful and more involved if you are encased in its trappings and subject to its rules.
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For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.
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When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.
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I want to be part of movies that have important and interesting subjects but are not depressing and are rather satirical and funny.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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Writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.
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Good web text has a lot in common with good print text. It's plain, concise, concrete and 'transparent': even on a personal site the text shouldn't draw attention to itself, only to its subject.
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I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.
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A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.
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I've always been a visual person, I'm formerly a graphic designer. I've always seen myself as an observer. I like to maintain objectivity and don't get too intimately involved in my subjects.
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The tax that is taken from the free non-Muslim subjects of a Muslim government whereby they ratify the compact that assures them protection, as though it were compensation for not being slain.
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Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.
