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Quotes About Subjects

If a ruler suffers subjects to be ill-educated, and then punishes them for crimes they commit in their ignorance, what else can we conclude but that he first makes thieves and then punishes them!
~ Alison Weir
A great leader must share the hardships of his followers, of his soldiers, of his subjects. That is how he wins their respect. Great leaders do not complain. Not ever.
~ Joe Abercrombie
A great leader must share the hardships of his followers, of his soldiers, of his subjects. That is how he wins their respect. Great leaders do not complain. Not ever." "Fuck them then," muttered Jezal under his breath. "And this rain, too!
~ Joe Abercrombie
The leaders of many countries condemn feudalism and monarchies and boast of adopting democracy or communism. But those same leaders, whose subjects revere them and whose misdeeds are kept secret, will hold office until their last breath, or until a handpicked heir takes over. Little has changed from the old feudal systems.
~ Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
Lay down a method also for your reading; let it be in a consistent and consecutive course, and not in that desultory and unmethodical manner, in which many people read scraps of different authors, upon different subjects.
~ Earl of Chesterfield
The united voice of all His Majesty's free and loyal subjects in America—liberty and property, and no stamps.
~ Anonymous
Radio: it ties a million ears to a single mouth. Out of loudspeakers all around Zollverein, the staccato voice of the Reich grows like some imperturbable tree; its subjects lean toward its branches as if towards the lips of God. And when God stops whispering, they become desperate for someone who can put things right.
~ Anthony Doerr
Radio: it ties a million ears to a single mouth. Out of loudspeakers all around Zollverein, the staccato voice of the Reich grows like some imperturbable tree; its subjects lean toward its branches as if toward the lips of God. And when God stops whispering, they become desperate for someone who can put things right.
~ Anthony Doerr
It's an old, old trick of autocratic rule," Idaho said. "Alia knows it well. Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.
~ Frank Herbert
There is a delightful myth about the design of Onn I foster and promote the myth. It is said that once there lived a people whose ruler was required to walk among them once a year in total darkness, without weapons or armor. The mythical ruler wore a luminescent suit while he made his walk through the night shrouded throng of his subjects. And his subjects--they wore black for the occasion and were never searched for weapons.
~ Frank Herbert
When I decided to direct a film, I went through around 200 to 300 scripts. Out of which, 12 subjects were finalized and 'Aata Pata Laapta' emerged as the winner.
~ Rajpal Yadav
I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in exploring these slightly forgotten plays that people might think of as subjects for academic term papers instead of live theater.
~ Geoffrey Rush
Remaining independent and functioning autonomously in the university is necessary, especially for the critical intellectual who does not see institutional favors, decorations, and promotions as the goal of our work but understands that the creation of critical masses of minoritized subjects of all types within this stubborn place and other like it is the prize.
~ Roderick A. Ferguson
There was never a political entity of that name until 1821, when Greek subjects of the Ottoman Empire raised
~ Roderick Beaton
when Greek subjects of the Ottoman Empire raised the flag of revolution
~ Roderick Beaton
At the time of Constantine's deathbed baptism in 337, the overwhelming majority of his subjects were still pagans.
~ Roderick Beaton
The laws of Islam required mercy to conquered peoples, and the Ottomans ruled their subjects with a light hand that seemed frequently preferable to European feudalism.
~ Roger Crowley
By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.
~ Ron Suskind
The artist used houses and barns and land along the Connecticut River as his subjects." Just as Ben Morrison had used the island and the brook. "Did Nason know your grandmother?" "Yes. She said he was the most poetic artist in America. She meant it literally. Some of his prints illustrated books
~ Luanne Rice
A razão não podia ser outra senão o momento oportuno. Não era oportuno o primeiro momento, porque, se nenhum de nós estava verde para o amor, ambos o estávamos para o nosso amor; distinção fundamental. Não há amor possível sem a oportunidade dos sujeitos.
~ Machado de Assis
and they were the subjects of what would become one of the most famous psychological studies in history. For the rest of his life, Terman watched over his charges like a mother hen. They were tracked
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation.
~ Richard P. Feynman
I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.
~ Sigmund Freud
He called the scientific subjects 'low cunning', and would sniff and say, 'This room smells of mathematics! Go out and fetch a disinfectant spray!
~ Andrew Hodges