Quotes Tagged "subject"

It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

Now, we turn to the gods – not for guidance or protection, but as experimental subjects. Deities, demons and other supernatural entities can be considered as self-perpetuating structures in the elemental chaos. They might be naturally accreting structures, or perhaps they were unconsciously shaped over many generations by blind faith. These self-perpetuating structures can channel elemental energy through congruent souls – or, to put it another way, saints manifest the sacred blessings of the gods.

Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

Teaching holds a mirror to the soul. If I am willing to look in that mirror and not run from what I see I have a chance to gain self knowledge and knowing myself is as crucial to good teaching as knowing my students and my subject. In fact, knowing my students and my subject depends heavily on self knowledge.

But the castration of perception by a court of control that denies it any anticipatory desire, forces it thereby into a pattern of helplessly reiterating what is already known.

Experience is the only subject worthwhile of study.

Initially, I was a bit hesitant to do the role in 'MTP,' as it was a very serious and aching subject.

My kids both had acne, and I never saw a book dealing with the subject.

I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

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

The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.

Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.

All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification.

I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.

The first songs I wrote were catchy, but the subject matter was God.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

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

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.