Quotes About Subject

For those who chose to build off modernism, fiction became a field for radical explorations in narrative form and voice. Writers set out in search of new techniques that could serve as sources of discovery and offer unique opportunities for amplifying the potential meaning of their subject matter.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

If the article mentions some celebrity-perhaps a recently dead politician-the author will want to mention some pointless detail from her last meeting with that person or the emotions she experienced when learning of the subject's death.

If you want to win the war for attention, don't try to say 'no' to the trivial distractions you find on the information smorgasbord; try to say 'yes' to the subject that arouses a terrifying longing, and let the terrifying longing crowd out everything else.

Knowing too much about a subject can make us overly cautious. Having a lot of conventional wisdom may make us doubt our own hunches and intuition because we're more likely to think that any seemingly good ideas that pop into our heads are wrong if they don't square with what we've previously learned.

There is nothing which is not the subject of debate, and in which men of learning are not of contrary opinions.

when the subject takes precedence, you not only start the journey towards a personal style but also you discover the sheer joy of visually responding to the world. It solves a lot of doubts, clears away all confusion. The

If they reject that truth, however, they cannot expect to understand more, and in fact, they will lose the truth that they have. (See Romans 1:21-28.) If they do not actively believe and love truth, they are subject to deception. (See II Thessalonians 2:10-12.)

Food-- like sex, politics, and religion-- is an intensely personal, emotional, and complicated subject.

The Bible is one book, written by one Author, with one subject: Jesus Christ and the salvation God...provides through Him.

We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.

The heads (Plural) of the Gods appointed one God for us; and when you take that view of the subject, it sets one free to see all the beauty, holiness and perfection of the Gods.

Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my decision was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair.

There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego.

Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

"Mansome" was one of those projects where it was a great change to do something fun and look at the subject in an engaging way. My next film is not going to be about pedicures.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.