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Quotes About Subject

L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error that cannot be eradicated except through grace.
~ Blaise Pascal
The discussion of any subject is a right that you have brought into the world with your heart and tongue. Resign your heart's blood before you part with this inestimable privilege of man.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.
~ Naomi Watts
When we recognize that the seemingly object nature of reality is nothing different than the subject nature of mind, which is rigpa, it is called enlightenment.
~ Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
~ Zadie Smith
Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the answers.
~ Susanne Katherina Langer
By life's very nature we are compelled to find and maintain balance, or be subject to the symptoms of the lack thereof.
~ Wes Fesler
In the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own nature.
~ Ludwig Feuerbach
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
~ Pam Gems
My philosophy is that one shall not resort to violence unless one is resolved to become the subject of violence at any time.
~ Takeshi Kitano
You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.
~ Bob Dylan
The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
~ Matthew Arnold
But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.
~ Thomas Lynch
Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most poems.
~ Pattiann Rogers
I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.
~ Don Henley
To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different.
~ Jerry Springer
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.
~ William Bradford
Underneath this sable hearseLies the subject of all verse:Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother.Death, ere thou hast slain anotherFair and learned and good as she,Time shall throw a dart at thee.
~ William Browne
Greek normally uses a singular verb when the subject is neuter plural. It is an indication that the writer is viewing the plural subject not as a collection of items but as a single group.
~ William D. Mounce
From this point of view, Zafar could certainly be tried as a defeated enemy king; but he had never been a subject, and so could not possibly be called a rebel guilty of treason. Instead, from a legal point of view, a good case could be made that it was the East India Company which was the real rebel, guilty of revolt against a feudal superior to whom it had sworn allegiance for nearly a century.
~ William Dalrymple
Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.
~ William Edgar Stafford