(425 quotes found)
“Implied / Subjection, but required with gentle sway / And by her yielded, by him best received; / Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, / And sweet reluctant amorous delay.”
John Milton
“The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.”
Charles Baudelaire
“It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.”
Alexander Fleming
“Bondage is...subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.”
W. Clement Stone
“It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine”
Charles Darwin
“The subject no longer has to be mentioned by name. Someone is sick. Someone else is feeling better now. A friend has just gone back into the hospital. Another has died. The unspoken name, of course, is AIDS.”
David W. Dunlap
“There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.”
Robert Frank
“I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.”
Carl Sandburg
“In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity”
Chamfort
