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British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any — Charles Dickens

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry. — Felix Dennis

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary. — Baruch Spinoza

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better. — C.S. Lewis

There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers. — H.L. Mencken

Christ does not control his subjects by force, but is King of a willing people. They are, through His grace, freely devoted to His service. — Joseph Alleine

All things are subject to decay and change ... — Polybius

I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore. — Madhur Bhandarkar

I just always wonder if I'm too obsessive about subjects. I try to avoid that. — Gary Gulman

We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without any quality of persons, some must be free, some serves, some rulers, some subjects. — Martin Luther

That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects. — Aristotle.

Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own. — Robert Herrick

We are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We're subjects, and we have rulers. — Edward Snowden

Professionals have to decide on which subjects they are prepared to give nagging rights — David Maister

The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained. — Thomas Jefferson

There are some subjects in school that I love, but it can still feel like a chore. Acting never feels like a chore. — Sierra McCormick

I must react selectively, contrarily, arbitrarily, perversely, and always with intensity directly from the subject. — Keith Crown

Write about the things that attract you. Choose your subjects the way you used to choose your toys: out of desire. — Harry Mathews

Nearly all the school subjects lay great stress on information. But literature makes its appeal to the heart as well as the intellect. Geography — Anthony Esolen

Real science and real philosophy are not guided by preconceptions of what subjects are important to consider. That — Robert M. Pirsig

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer. — Paula Vogel

Of all many-sided subjects, [education] is the one which has the greatest number of sides. — John Stuart Mill

When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously. — Horace

A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium. — Robert Motherwell

To paraphrase the great humorist, Will Rogers . . . "We're all ignorant, but only on different subjects". — Wilson Casey

For me, at least, studying my subjects first and knowing them personally was essential to taking a good picture. — Gisele Freund

Humor is a bit like Mary Poppins' sugar-it helps the medicine go down. A little bit of humor allows people to think about very difficult subjects. — James Fadiman

With the possible exception of clothes, beauty salons and Frank Sinatra, there are few subjects all women agree upon. — Groucho Marx

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects. — Leigh Steinberg

Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the expense of prince and king, was exiled to England. — Robert Green Ingersoll

If you're not excited about the subject, the viewer won't be either. — Paul Strisik

In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time. — Thomas Ruff

Is his benevolent art meant to distract us from Prospero's absolutist exercise of authority over his subjects? — James Shapiro

Home is a little kingdom with rulers, laws, and subjects, each with a part to perform in order that life there shall be perfect. — Mabel Hale

The aging Adams delightedly describes being surrounded by books on so many different subjects that interested him as "baits on fishhooks". — Paul C. Nagel

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
— Clarence Darrow

Commit to investing at least one hour per day studying subjects that will help you move closer toward your ultimate vision. — Steve Siebold

The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it. — Stefan Zweig

I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition. — Lynne Tillman

Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure. — Henry Morton Stanley

Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects. — Joseph Addison

We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you? — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

This is the end of this subject for me for a long time. — Bill Belichick

Finding the right subject is the hardest part. — Mary Ellen Mark

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having. — Matthew Collings

At the end, the subjects remembered the interrupted tasks far better than the completed ones - over two times better, in fact — Anonymous

To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century. — Brigid Brophy

I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive. — Jerry Seinfeld

I work on a political subject quite often, and the paintings, for me, are not finished until they're printed. — Erro

I know nothing about this subject, but I do have prejudices, which I am more than happy to share with you. — Leon Botstein

I personally don't like depressing subjects, people say, as if mortality is a lifestyle choice, disease and violence and sorrow a matter of taste. — Sarah Moss

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject. — C.S. Lewis

We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves. — George Mason

I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it. — Laura Hillenbrand

It was one of those subjects to which everything that slithers across your brain seems relevant. I find this to be true of most topics. — Karen Joy Fowler

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet. — Ernest Bramah

Dead is when the chemists take over the subject. — Arthur Leonard Schawlow

When a person loses his purpose, he subjects himself to a free fall. — Sunday Adelaja

The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects. — John Lancaster Spalding

Never pose your subjects. Let them move about naturally ... All great photographs today are snapshots. — Martin Munkacsi

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily. — Victoria Woodhull

The teacher who knows the most about a subject isn't necessarily the one who can teach it best. — Andy Rooney

We Stoics are not subjects of a despot: each of us lays claim to his own freedom. — Seneca.

I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure. — Ruth Rendell

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal

Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography. — Tom Stoppard

War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable. — Yann Martel

Like most people in the Midwest, Embryo doesn't believe in humor, especially when it pertains to sensitive subjects. — Jennifer Niven

I write plays about big, intense subjects. — Anna Deavere Smith

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. — Robert A. Heinlein

You don't want to cover a subject; you want to uncover it. — Eleanor Duckworth

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies. — Walter Isaacson

Are you sure? You sound afraid." Said the Pied Piper to his subjects. — Pepper Winters

Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer. — Andreas Feininger

For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible. — George Herbert

Taking men as they have been and are, they are subjects of passion, emotion, and instinct. Only — William Graham Sumner

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry. — Harry Callahan

Oh, I like tedious, practical subjects. What I don't like are tedious, practical people. There is a wide difference. — Oscar Wilde

I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject. — Chuck Close

I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me. — Philip Emeagwali

Nothing is gained by debate on non-debatable subjects. — Theodore Roosevelt

What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects. — Thomas Sowell

And that was how the people of Miaudacas learned that a queen only stays in power for as long as her subjects are afraid of conflict. — Fredrik Backman

Subject is known by what she sees. — Allen Ginsberg

On the whole, the best fortress you can have, is in not being hated by your subjects. If they hate you no fortress will save you ... — Niccolo Machiavelli

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

To study for subjects the least you can do is READ! — Felisha Rush

I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan. — Ridley Scott

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance. — Muriel Spark

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

TV dramas function as vehicles for remodeling female subjects for the new social order - in other words, as an agent for change. — Jie Yang

When a doctor makes a mistake, it's best to bury the subject. — Woody Allen

Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry. — Caleb Deschanel

If you were subjects of Maleldil you would have peace. — C.S. Lewis

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision. — Lord Acton

All topics, issues, and subjects in 'The Room' add to the depth of the characters in the movie, and they are equally important. — Tommy Wiseau

The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects. — Elie Wiesel

Kings and queens cry with family. Hide your grief from subjects and strangers. — Stephanie Dray

Producers are looking to me to concept full worlds for subjects to compete, play a game show in, win an award, blah blah blah. — James Pearse Connelly