Quotes about Subject
I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial, and misunderstood . . .As a minister I must deal with it. I cannot ignore it.
— Billy Graham
Until they give me opportunity to write about matters that are not-me, the world must go on uninstructed and unreformed, and I can only do my best with the one small subject upon which I am allowed to discourse.
— Helen Keller
Do what Jesus says,... what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
When the subject has refused allegiance and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.
— Henry David Thoreau
Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
— Aristotle
For love concentrates on the object, sex concentrates on the subject. Love is directed to someone else for the sake of the other's perfection; sex is directed to self for the sake of self-satisfaction.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Memory is the 'self', because it is my presence to myself, the way in which I constitute myself and understand myself as a subject with a continuous history of experience.
— Rowan Williams
the rational treatment of any subject ought to take its start from definition, that readers may understand what the author is writing about.
— Cicero
the rational treatment of any subject ought to take its start from definition, that readers may understand what the author is writing about.
— Cicero
It may be asked how so imbecile and dangerous a creed ever came to be accepted by intelligent beings. I will answer that question more fully in my next volume of plays, which will be entirely devoted to the subject. For
— George Bernard Shaw
It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.
— Aristotle
and Euripides, faulty though he may be in the general management of his subject, yet is felt to be the most tragic of the poets.
— Aristotle