#subjects

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#affairs #am #concern #convinced #englishman

What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#carry #darkness #interests #me #principal

I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about. ↗

— Sam Brownback

#american #american people #care #i #i think

I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#book #dull #enjoy #generally #histories

We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects. ↗

— Laurel Clark

#around #atmosphere #earth #human #level

My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me. ↗

— John Cleese

#alimony #always #become #business #compulsion

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#aids #almost #been #both #decades

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#certain #create #despot #despotic #government

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#last #long #longer #obligation #power

Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion. ↗

— Meg Tilly

#deal #emotion #full #horror #horror movies