Subjects Quotes - Page 20

• 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.

  Dorothea Dix

  Insanity, Humanity, Fever

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• if you take passionate interest in a subject, it is hard not to believe yourself specially equipped for it.

  Ethel Smyth

  Believe, Passionate, Talent

  Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”

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• One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an author. In Livy, it will be the manner of telling the story; in Sallust, personal identification with the character; in Tacitus, the analysis of the deed into its motive. If the same test be applied to painters, it will find the prominent faculty of Correggio to be manifested in harmony of effect; of Poussin, in the sentiment of his landscapes; and of Raffaelle, in the general comprehension of his subject.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Character, Interesting, Quality

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• We have higher quality conversations in restaurants than at home. It's as though we rise to the occasion by selecting worthwhile, less mundane subjects to discuss when eating out, just as we dress more carefully.

  Mimi Sheraton

  Home, Quality, Dresses

  Mimi Sheraton (2004). “Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life”, Large Print Press

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• There are some beings who reach a point where they no longer want to move through the ten thousand states of mind. There is something else. It is beyond subject and object. That is nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Mind

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• How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is a purely lyrical process. It is a musical confession of the soul, which unburdens itself through sounds just as a lyric poet expresses himself through poetry...As the poet Heine said, 'Where words leave off, music begins.'

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Music, Writing, Soul

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• Politics is the only serious. subject that men think themselves qualified to act upon without any previous education or instruction whatever. If it happened to be astronomy, or botany, or medicine, or law, he would never be allowed to work in any of these arts, or to take a decisive part in the history of any one of these sciences without having, at least, acquired: the A B C of it; but the awful fact of politics is that we do not take the trouble seriously to understand the political situation.

  Hugh Price Hughes

  Art, Men, Thinking

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• money is a more taboo subject than sex. If you don't believe me, think about this: you have friends who tell you the intimate details of their sex-lives but they would be shocked if you asked them how much money they make.

  Patricia King

  Money, Sex, Believe

  Patricia King (1992). “Never work for a jerk!”

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• I doubt whether there is any subject in the world of equal importance that has received so little serious and articulate consideration as the economic status of the family - of its members in relation to each other and of the whole unit in relation to the other units of which the community is made up.

  Eleanor Rathbone

  Family, Community, Doubt

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• I never have restricted myself into a frame of a particular technique. My techniques are determined simultaneously along with the subjects of my works. It is similar to the works of a poet, the form of a poem is determined at the same time as its content.

  Guity Novin

  Technique, Determined, Poet

  Etelaat newspaper, Iran, June 07, 1973.

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• In my paintings, the question on whether figures are similar or not is not of any importance, the slightest change of figure or color can create a new painting and it doesn't really matter if a subject is revisited by an artist repeatedly. With enough time in between paintings, an artist can always bring to it something new.

  Guity Novin

  Artist, Color, Enough Time

  Ayandegan newspaper, Iran, June 05, 1973.

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• Remarriage is or is not approved in shastra; I have no authority to speak on this subject. But I surely cannot go on without saying this much, that remarriage has helped a great deal in stopping crime in Fiji.

  Totaram Sanadhya

  Stopping, Fiji, Goes On

  Totaram Sanadhya, John Dunham Kelly, Uttra Kumari Singh (1991). “My twenty-one years in the Fiji Islands ; and, The story of the haunted line”

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• It's guilty of the very thing that makes kids hate history as a subject when it's taught badly: The Da Vinci Code makes the past feel like a dull, grainy, faraway thing, instead of something vibrant and alive.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Hate, Kids, Past

  "The Da Vinci Code". www.salon.com. May 18, 2006.

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• The 4D style, or cosmic comics and relativistic humor, is based on Einstein's theory of relativity which I came up with 20 years ago. 4D works use the idea of the fourth dimension, time, playing on such surrealistic and amazing subjects as motion relativity, space curvature and time dilation.

  Javad Alizadeh

  Years, Ideas, Space

  "Cartoonist Alizadeh, Translating World Into Humor". Press TV, April 23, 2009.

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• You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts. But it is an enthusiasm of which I am not ashamed, as its object is to improve the taste of my countrymen, to increase their reputation, to reconcile to them the respect of the world, and procure them its praise.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, World, Enthusiasm

  Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State”, p.433

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• [On art:] I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more observant and understanding, regardless of whatever age it springs from, whatever subjects it represents.

  Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

  Spiritual, Art, Spring

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• while it is certainly the biographer's business to describe the foibles, passions and idiosyncrasies which make his subject a person, his work will be very meagre if these individual traits are not also seen as part of a universal drama - for each man's life is also the story of Everyman.

  Iris Origo

  Drama, Passion, Men

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• I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject.

  Iris Origo

  Writing, Thinking, Biographies

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• Like the tectonic plate it sits upon, Hollywood is subject to seismic jolts and constant tremors. Each season erupts with a new champion, and every so often a genuine earthquake will tear down the apparently secure infrastructure.

  Lynda Obst

  Earthquakes, Champion, Tears

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• Time was when medicine could do very little for critically ill or dying patients. Now it can do too much. Where to draw the line is the subject of a broad, heated debate throughout the country, a debate that becomes louder with each new medical miracle or impossible case.

  Lisa Belkin

  Country, Medicine, Miracle

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• For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing it I must give up the myth of meritocracy. If these things are true, this is not such a free country; one's life is not what one makes it; many doors open for certain people through no virtues of their own.

  Peggy McIntosh

  Country, Giving Up, Doors

  "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack". Peggy McIntosh, Peace and Freedom Magazine (by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), July/August 1989.

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• I want to show off how beautiful my subjects are, whether its a cheetah or a live girl or two of them together.

  Bunny Yeager

  Beautiful, Girl, Two

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• What Warcollier demonstrated is compatible with what modern cognitive neuroscience has learned about how visual images are constructed by the brain. It implies that telepathic perceptions bubble up into awareness from the unconscious and are probably processed in the brain in the same way that we generate images in dreams. And thus telepathic “images” are far less certain than sensory-driven images and subject to distortion.

  Dean Radin

  Dream, Perception, Brain

  Dean Radin (2009). “Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• The songs are definitely all about me. I am my favourite subject.

  Teddy Thompson

  Song, Favourite

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• Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in looking at it or splashing through it. Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry-because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.

  Valerie Worth

  Feelings, Important, Mud Puddles

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