Objects Quotes · Page 30

The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any…

— Thomas Paine

Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought; your aversion…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them.

— Martin Parr

I still look to music to heal and bind; I still think the musician can be a trusted object offering his fellow-man…

— Yehudi Menuhin

If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the…

— Joseph Addison

The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of…

— Bob Dylan

Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass;…

— Joseph Hall

It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither,…

— John F. Kennedy

The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

— James Madison

Many painters had a clear idea of what fractals are. Take a French classic painter named Poussin. Now, he painted beautiful landscapes,…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard…

— Leo Tolstoy

Plenty of women say, "I'm just going to make myself into a sex object." But they often can't stay afloat doing that.…

— Anna Biller

Public values are not only under attack in the United States and elsewhere but appear to have become irrelevant just as those…

— Henry Giroux

I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.

— Marc Newson

The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained -…

— George Washington

Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that…

— Rumi

All photographs are about light. The great majority of photographs record light as a way of describing objects in space. A few…

— John Paul Caponigro

As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when…

— Philibert Joseph Roux

The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

This is the world of One Taste, with no inside and no outside, no subject and no object, no in here versus…

— Ken Wilber

The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it…

— William Hazlitt

Roque...lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form.…

— William Carlos Williams

The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of…

— Ford Madox Ford

Design helps shape our everyday interactions through products, furniture, objects, or experiences.

— Joe Gebbia

Know that for the human mind there are certain objects of perception which are within the scope of its nature and capacity;…

— Maimonides

Fear not what is not real,never was and never will be. What is real,always was and can not be destroyed.

— Gita

The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects;…

— Carl Linnaeus

Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object…

— Roger Angell

First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are…

— Abraham Polonsky

Here's my pet peeve: The not-so-unstated rule that all women are only to be treated as sexual objects and gawked at-you know,…

— Alicia Keys

In arriving at the relevant theory about the specifics of our faculty of vision we will presumably use our eyes to gather…

— Ernest Sosa

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

Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only…

— Swami Vivekananda

It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.

— Antony Gormley

We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no…

— Winston Churchill

The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic…

— Russell Kirk

I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love…

— Sharon Creech

Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.

— William Hazlitt