The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look like places to break out… — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
All object printed: Love me. Look me. Million speaking objects,begging. Crown American consumer with power of king, to rescue choose and give… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is… — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I consider my work non-objective and I think abstract is an abstraction of something, like a landscape. Abstraction means something is abstracted.… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Bright pledge of peace and sunshine! the sure tie Of thy Lord's hand, the object of His eye! When I behold thee,… — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The radiation of radium was "contagious"-Contagious like a persistent scent or a disease. It was impossible for an object, a plant, an… — Eve Curie Copy Share Image
Congressional investigations...are still being held on the problem of unidentified flying objects and the problem is one in which there is quite… — William Hanes Ayres Copy Share Image
The campaign of character assassination waged [against President Clinton] by the right was a singular, unprecedented effort. Nothing like it exists on… — David Brock Copy Share Image
What is … important is that we — number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
Deep attention, the cognitive style traditionally associated with the humanities, is characterized by concentrating on a single object for long periods (say,… — N. Katherine Hayles Copy Share Image
The real essence, the internal qualities, and constitution of even the meanest object, is hid from our view; something there is inevery… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Children should be encouraged to search out in nature the objects that illustrate Bible teachings, and to trace in the Bible the… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It is not adopted in criticism of others in the slightest… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Different minds incline to different objects; one pursues the vast alone, the wonderful, the wild; another sighs for harmony and grace, and… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
If laws are just properties of objects, how can those laws continue to operate when the object is not really there? — Alan Guth Copy Share Image
Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding. — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
The word ‘studio’ is derives from ‘study’. Our object is not to know the answers before we do the work. It’s to… — Bruce Mau Copy Share Image
You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
The dreams of existence of that we call time, space, matter, subject, object, yin, yang - everything flows forth from this tai… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“You don’t send messages because you have objects, you have objects because you send messages.” — Sandi Metz Copy Share Image
In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creatures. — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation. — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
I certainly agree that capital is not a one-dimensional object, and that the return on capital takes very different forms for different… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects. — John C. Baez Copy Share Image
We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My main object in making a motion picture is entertainment. If at the same time I can strike a blow for liberty,… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
The object of a bunker or trap is not only to punish a physical mistake, to punish lack of control, but also… — Charles B. Macdonald Copy Share Image