Subjects Quotes

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  

  Joshua Lederberg
  • Knows
  • Facts
  • Dabbling

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

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Fear
  • Ignorance
  • Subjects

• 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

• We're being subject to incredible amounts of surveillance, the police are taking on draconian powers and violating our rights. I think this attempt to protect ourselves is ultimately going to founder because people don't like living inside prisons.

  

  Mohsin Hamid
  • People
  • Incredibles
  • Founders

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

  

  Ernest Gellner
  • Philosopher
  • Loses
  • Calling

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Erica Jong
  • Writers
  • Subjects

• 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

• 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.

  

  P. M. H. Atwater
  • Body
  • Meaningful
  • 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
  • Disarm
  • Offend

• 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

• For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Subjects
  • Controlling
  • Goverment

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

  

  Aristotle
  • Better
  • Rule
  • Subjects

• Theology is a subject without an object

  

  Dan Barker
  • Subjects
  • Objects
  • Theology

• 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'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.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Persons
  • Designer
  • Graphic

• I do select a soundtrack for each of my subjects and again my assistants you know they make fun of me because that is more important to me than the lighting, which I just do in a minute right before, but I spend a long time on the soundtracks.

  

  Carol Friedman
  • Fun
  • Select
  • Assistants

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