Subjectification Synonyms Quotes

#1. Roget looked so profoundly timid. What is it like, working for a well-dressed lunatic who pays you triple what anyone else would pay to forget your better judgment?

Anne Rice

#2. Physiology has spawned many biological sciences, amongst them my own field of pharmacology.

John Vane

#3. History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.

Jill Lepore

#4. My apartment's only about a block away."
"Isn't that handy."
"Fate," he countered as he took a seat on the sofa and made himself at home. "Fantasic, isn't it?"
"One day very soon, I'm going to tell you what you can do with that fate of yours.

Nora Roberts

#5. Of all the tricks played by storytellers on their willing victims, the cheapest is the deception known in English as The End. An ending is an arbitrary thing, an act of cowardice or fatigue, an expedient disguised as an aesthetic choice or, worse, a moral commentary on the finitude of life.

Michael Chabon

#6. I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

David Eddings

#7. Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.

William Shakespeare

#8. He found, as the new century gathered headway, that his thirst for gayety grew stronger.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. I arose and spoke substantially as follows: ... I love the government and the constitution of the United States, but I do not love the damned rascals who administer the government.

Brigham Young

#10. Since you (US "drug tsar" McCaffrey) control a federal budget that has just been increased from $17.8 billion last year to $19.2 billion this year, is asking people like you if we should continue with our nation's current drug policy like a person asking a barber if one needs a haircut?

James P. Gray

#11. To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.

William James

#12. We let a river shower its banks with a spirit that invades the people living there, and we protect that river, knowing that without its blessings the people have no source of soul.

Thomas Moore

#13. Dogs make us believe we can actually be as they see us.

Monks Of New Skete

#14. The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

Daniel Day-Lewis