Subjects Quotes

• 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.

  

  William Henry Hudson
  • Believe
  • Middle
  • Decay

• 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.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Subjects
  • Defend
  • Rob

• For a prince should have two fears: one, internal concerning his subjects; the other, external, concerning foreign powers. From the latter he can always defend himself by his good troops and friends; and he will always have good friends if he has good troops.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Prince
  • Fears
  • Concerning

• We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Management
  • Gone

• 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.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Success
  • Portraits
  • Likeness

• A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

  

  Ernest Gellner
  • Philosopher
  • Loses
  • Calling

• Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Fear
  • Ignorance
  • Subjects

• Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.

  

  Diego Rivera
  • Suffering
  • Painter
  • Composition

• It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Time
  • Interests

• 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.

  

  Catherine Opie
  • Home
  • Photograph
  • Print

• But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.

  

  Vincente Minnelli
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Deals

• Writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Writers
  • Subjects

• Theology is a subject without an object

  

  Dan Barker
  • Subjects
  • Objects
  • Theology

• All things, in all their aspects, consist exclusively of 'souls', that is, of various kinds of subjects, or units of experiencing, with their qualifications, relations, and groupings, or communities.

  

  Charles Hartshorne
  • Soul
  • Community
  • Kind

• I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary, I find it already there. It's a question of picking out what one wants from nature.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Nature
  • Want
  • Sometimes

• When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil ; it exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty ; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies.

  

  Mencius
  • Poverty
  • Hunger
  • Extremes

• 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.

  

  Cassius Dio
  • Develop
  • Virtues
  • Provide

• I have come, Sire, to complain of one of your subjects who has been so audacious as to kick me in the belly.

  

  Marie Antoinette
  • Subjects
  • Complain
  • Audacious

• That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

  

  Aristotle
  • Better
  • Rule
  • Subjects

• 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.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Subjects
  • Offend
  • Disarm

• In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go.

  

  Michael Berryman
  • Matter
  • Honesty
  • Thumbs

• I want to be part of movies that have important and interesting subjects but are not depressing and are rather satirical and funny.

  

  Terence Lewis
  • Movies
  • Subjects
  • Part Of

• When Jesus invites sinners, 'Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest,' he immediately adds,'take my yoke upon you, and learn from me' (Matt. 11:28-29). To come to him includes taking his yoke upon us, being subject to his direction and guidance, learning from him and being obedient to him. If we are unwilling to make such a commitment, then we have not truly placed our trust in him.

  

  Wayne Grudem
  • Commitment
  • Guidance
  • Heavy

• I like it to stay very organic, and to remember a personal story behind all my subjects.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Subjects
  • Organic
  • Personal story

1

2

3

4

5

...

8

previous

next