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Quotes About Subject

Stupid English. English isn't stupid, I say. Well, my English teacher is. He makes a face. Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject, and I wanted to write about lunch, but he won't let me. Why not? He says lunch isn't a subject. I glance at him. It isn't. Well, Jacob says, it's not a predicate, either. Shouldn't he know that?
~ Jodi Picoult
A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
~ John Singer Sargent
The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.
~ Unknown
doctrine consists of a set of ideas or propositions on a topic, so a biblical doctrine is the biblical teaching on a subject. Theology refers to the study of the Bible or the systematic formulation of doctrines from the Bible. A biblical doctrine is always binding, and a system of theology is authoritative to the extent that it reflects the teachings of the Bible.
~ Unknown
Future generations will probably be able to enlighten us on this very interesting subject, and then science itself—with all due respect—may reach conclusions that are more or less in keeping with Christ's sayings about the other half of our life.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Theater Games are a process applicable to any field, discipline, or subject matter which creates a place where full participation, communication, and transformation can take place.
~ Viola Spolin
You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.
~ Mark Twain
No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Q: Do you really distance yourself from your subject? I mean, what would you do if you were presented with a young girl burning to death? A: About 1/60 at f5.6.
~ Robert Capa
So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.
~ Andy Warhol
I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either.
~ James A. Garfield
Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.
~ Thomas Paine
We've still got our costume to be working on, because if we don't win that contest, Wally's going to be king and you're going to be his loyal subject. And if that's not enough to make you throw up, I don't know what is.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Then, I said, Thrasymachus, there is no one in any rule who, in so far as he is a ruler, considers or enjoins what is for his own interest, but always what is for the interest of his subject or suitable to his art; to that he looks, and that alone he considers in everything which he says and does.
~ Plato
To refer a subject to a negative class is unmeaning, unless the 'not' is a mere modification of the positive, as in the example of 'not honourable' and 'dishonourable'; or unless the class is characterized by the absence rather than the presence of a particular quality.
~ Plato
No science or art considers or enjoins the interest of the stronger or superior, but only the interest of the subject and weaker
~ Plato
Because you seem not to be aware that any one who has an intellectual affinity to Socrates and enters into conversation with him is liable to be drawn into an argument; and whatever subject he may start, he will be continually carried round and round by him, until at last he finds that he has to give an account both of his present and past life; and when he is once entangled, Socrates will not let him go until he has completely and thoroughly sifted him.
~ Plato
Excuse me? You're a lady? I bought a title on the Internet. I own one square inch of Scotland. And you're changing the subject.
~ Rachel Caine
el mismo pensamiento cambia al sujeto pensante.
~ Raimon Panikkar
suffer lasting psychological trauma. Still, I don't think it's a good idea to subject her to an interrogation tonight." "Not an interrogation
~ Dean Koontz
When a scientist tells you that 'the science is settled' in regard to any subject," Lamar said, "he's ceased to be a scientist, and he's become an evangelist for one cult or another. The entire history of science is that nothing in science is ever settled. New discoveries are continuously made, and they upend old certainties.
~ Dean Koontz
Moloch. That's the code name that Ringrock's masters of science have given to the subject of their research
~ Dean Koontz
The director's job is like a teacher's, and I feel a teacher should not have any doubts about the subject.
~ P. Vasu
History was the subject that didn't seem like work. It was enjoyable. That's why I was drawn to doing it really.
~ Lucy Worsley