Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
I hope they make a show like M*A*S*H, which dealt with a lot of difficult subject matter but was very funny.
When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.
The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.
Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.
Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.
No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.
The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.
I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.
I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.
I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about.
I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.
You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.
I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.
My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.
I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.
