Subjects Quotes
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Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.
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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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It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain.
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Woven through Timothy J. Clark’s paintings are unique combinations of visual and emotional stimuli. His sense of space, light and composition combine to create graphic tensions which intrigue beyond the beautifully-painted forms of the subjects.
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The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.
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I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
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If you want things to change to different things, you must think different thoughts. And that simply requires finding unfamiliar ways of approaching familiar subjects. Ask and it is given.
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I am now . . . on a subject, which fills me with inexpressible concern . . . . But as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.
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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.
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Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.
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It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.
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Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.
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For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.
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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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A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise.
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Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. There are millions of African-Americans now cycling in and out of prisons and jails or under correctional control or saddled with criminal records. In major American cities today, more than half of working-age African-American men either are under correctional control or are branded felons, and are thus subject to legalized discrimination for the rest of their lives.
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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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Who says we didn't have controversial subjects on TV back in my time? Remember Bonanza? It was about three guys in high heels living together.
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If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.
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And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.
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A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers.
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Writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.
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You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject.
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The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.
