(425 quotes found)
“Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.”
Franklin Pierce
“I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; -- but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD.”
William Lloyd Garrison
“I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.”
Salvador Dalí
“Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.”
William J. Brennan Jr.
“During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.”
Jean Piaget
“These people are very unskilled in arms ... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.”
Christopher Columbus
“The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.”
Mike Royko
“I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light”
Isaac Newton
“My subject enlarges itself, becomes methodized and define, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it, like a fine picture or a beautiful statute, at a glance.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“I'm sure everyone in this room has been told a joke about that subject. I have many times and I've laughed, even though they are horrifying and shocking. . . . I think there's no boundary at all, whether it's that subject or another.”
Billy Connolly
