I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
Thomas Jefferson

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas Jefferson

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George Washington

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
William Shakespeare

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Peter Drucker

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
Ernest Hemingway

I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.
Clint Eastwood

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dali

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
John Keats

What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?
Richard Dawkins

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
Lord Byron

Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.
William Glasser

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
Charles Darwin

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
George Bernard Shaw