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Quotes About Subjects

Zimbardo's Stanford colleagues Jennifer Aaker and Melanie Rudd found that an experience of timelessness is so powerful it shapes behavior. In a series of experiments, subjects who tasted even a brief moment of timelessness "felt they had more time available, were less impatient, more willing to volunteer to help others, more strongly preferred experiences over material products, and experienced a greater boost in life satisfaction.
~ Steven Kotler
When a grammatical construction is associated with politicians you can be sure that it provides a way to evade responsibility. Zombie nouns, unlike the verbs whose bodies they snatched, can shamble around without subjects. That
~ Steven Pinker
The presence of a king engenders love Amongst his subjects, and his royal friends.
~ William Shakespeare
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
Christ keeps not his subjects in by force, but is King of a willing people. They are, through his grace, freely devoted to his service; they serve out of choice, not as slaves, but as the son or spouse, from a spring of love and a loyal mind. In a word, the laws of Christ are the convert's love, delight, and continual study.
~ Joseph Alleine
The great political questions take their place in the psychic economy of the typical citizen with those leisure-hour interests that have not yet attained the rank of hobbies, and with the subjects of irresponsible conversation.
~ Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter
The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.
~ Joseph Lancaster
Had Africa's mineral wealth not been plundered, had its people not been enslaved and made subjects, the possibilities for its future would be limitless.
~ Esi Edugyan
There were two subjects about which the Jewish imagination especially busied itself,—the history of the Creation, and the Merkabah, or the Divine apparition to Ezekiel.
~ Bernhard Pick
the normalization of risk in the lives of her high-risk subjects.
~ Bernie Chowdhury
History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
~ Walter Cronkite
Writing an encyclopedia is hard. To do anywhere near a decent job, you have to know a great deal of information about an incredibly wide variety of subjects. Writing so much text is difficult, but doing all the background research seems impossible.
~ Aaron Swartz
Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less.
~ H.L. Mencken
Common sense in reflecting on these subjects, I assured my friend with some warmth, is merely a stupid absence of imagination and mental flexibility.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
You're smart enough to recognize that the subjects of migraines and cats never fail with the women. Lead the old girl toward the mint tea.
~ Hanif Kureishi
There are certain topics that I've come back to time and again throughout my career. On 'To the Bone,' there are certain subjects I have touched on before.
~ Steven Wilson
I loved my Communications class. The toughest one I had was Oceanography only because I didn't have too much interest in the oceans.
~ Ben Simmons
France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.
~ Francois Hollande
The way we live now is an experiment in which we are the human subjects—treated as objects by the technology we have created. Our apps use us as much as we use our apps.
~ Sherry Turkle
The tsar was so sacred that no one was allowed to look him in the eye, and he was greeted by his subjects with total prostration. If he was bled by doctors, the blood was blessed and buried in a special blood pit to prevent sorcery.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
Have the utmost respect for your subjects. Love them.
~ Joyce Tenneson
His most important books are his two Logics, and these must be understood if the reasons for his views on other subjects are to be rightly apprehended.
~ Bertrand Russell
Even in the darkest sea they knew they were observed and escorted all the way, by subjects of Tethys invisible even to an Old One's eye. News came to the Lady of the Sea long, long before anyone might approach. She had her own ways. Older than the land, older than the Old Ones, older than all men, she ruled her kingdom of waves as she had since the world began: alone, absolute.
~ Susan Cooper
Fotografiar es conferir importancia. Quizás no haya tema que no pueda ser embellecido; es más, no hay modo de suprimir la tendencia intrínseca de toda fotografía a dar valor a sus temas.
~ Susan Sontag