Objects Quotes · Page 118

I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.

— Michael Craig-Martin

We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God,…

— Abraham Lincoln

Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity-- Early to bed and early to rise Make a man healthy…

— Mark Twain

Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Atheists themselves used to be very comfortable in maintaining that the universe is eternal and uncaused. The problem is that they can…

— William Lane Craig

People only have true understanding when they look at everything from God's perspective. Authentic wisdom begins when we understand that God is…

— R. C. Sproul

Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical…

— Henry David Thoreau

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life…

— George Bernard Shaw

I have a theory that no child ever does outgrow its ungratified legitimate desires; though subsequent maturity may bring him to the…

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

We stand for a use of color free from the imitation of things as colored objects. We stand for an aerial vision…

— Carlo Carra

Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols…

— Ken Wilber

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be…

— Marya Mannes

I'm interested in finding whether or not there is a really massive, what we like to call 'super massive' black hole at…

— Andrea M. Ghez

Objects always meet your obsession. Once you have an obsession, you step on it at every corner.

— Sophie Calle

America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by…

— Thomas Paine

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.

— Piet Mondrian

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how…

— Dorothea Lange

They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with…

— Horace

God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and…

— Jean Baptiste Massillon

In the beginning [of my social media life], I started posting and someone I'm close to said, "you're only posting pictures of…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

I feel that the Air Force has not been giving out all the available information on the Unidentified Flying Objects. You cannot…

— John William McCormack

Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For…

— Henry Fielding

The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against…

— Francois Guizot

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is…

— Erich Fromm