Objects Quotes · Page 11

If the mind be fixed on the acquirement of any object, that object will be attained.

— Gautama Buddha

Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness.

— Paola Antonelli

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

— Carroll O'Connor

Women aren't objects that you look at only on weekends.

— Ville Valo

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it…

— William Feather

The object of our serch is the fire of grace which enters into the heart.

— Theophan the Recluse

No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.

— Abel Stevens

Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.

— Epictetus

It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.

— Thomas Paine

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks…

— Vikram Seth

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.

— Thomas Carlyle

All of us alive today are or can be its prey, most of all the person who believes he is creating works…

— Gillo Dorfles

The same is true of ranking him thus against any work of literature. [Bob Dylan] has been made, through no fault of…

— David Bennun

Comparing objects like cars, houses, clothes, and defining life according to those comparisons, instead of trying to discover the real reason for…

— Paulo Coelho

Knowing all objects to be impermanent, let not their contact blind you, resolve again and again to be aware of the Self…

— Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

I decided I should use the most obvious colours - the basic colours with simple names: red, purple, yellow, pink. I don't…

— Michael Craig-Martin

As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am,…

— Virginia Woolf

Everything you have, whether it's money or stuff, is an obligation. It is as much your duty to care for and nurture…

— Brad Warner

Stop being astounded by the realization that sex is the object of such misunderstanding and of such automatic clumsiness that it implies…

— Philippe Sollers

There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his…

— Edmund Burke

Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called…

— Bix Beiderbecke

Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about…

— Matsuo Basho

We should go boldly where man has not gone before. Fly by the comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There's…

— Buzz Aldrin

On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived in the eighteenth…

— Laura Riding

“Did you find anything special?' Blackie asked. T. nodded. 'Come over here,' he said, 'and look.' Out of both pockets he drew…

— Graham Greene

The trouble is that privacy is at once essential to, and in tension with, both freedom and security. A cabinet minister who…

— Timothy Garton Ash

Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety…

— Lord Acton

My object, having a surplus to deal with, is to consider how I can deal with it to the greatest advantage to…

— Robert Peel

And when with excellent Microscopes I discern in otherwise invisible Objects the Inimitable Subtlety of Nature's Curious Workmanship; And when, in a…

— Robert Boyle

In real life, women dont enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.

— Jackson Katz

It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sacred demands the violation of what is normally the object of terrified respect.

— Georges Bataille

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.

— Thomas a Kempis

Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.

— John Dryden

The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.

— Francois Delsarte

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

— T. S. Eliot