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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
Saint Thomas Aquinas