Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
We see buildings in Britain mostly as freestanding objects. They are not meant to have a dialogue with anything around them, or… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
The Universe is not a collection of objects, but is an inseparable web of vibrating energy patterns in which no one component… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of… — Gordon Cooper Copy Share Image
In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The awful consciousness that one is the sole object of attention to that immense space, lined as it were with human intellect… — Sarah Siddons Copy Share Image
Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
All knowledge is oriented toward some object and is influenced in its approach by the nature of the object with which it… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women… — Miriam Schapiro Copy Share Image
Any base heart can devise means of vileness, and affix the ugly shapings of its own fancy to the actions of those… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
When the masters of industry pay such sums for a newspaper, they buy not merely the building and the presses and the… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude.… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
The truly great consider, first, how they may gain the approbation of God, and, secondly, that of their own conscience. Having done… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that… — Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin Copy Share Image
In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! - I hope I'll be safe at home! — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The peculiar fascination of the brain lies in the fact that there is probably no other object of scientific enquiry about which… — Gerd Sommerhoff Copy Share Image
Unknown objects are operating under intelligent control... It is imperative that we learn where UFOs come from and what their purpose is... — Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter Copy Share Image
Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
To object that the facts about human nature set limits on our ability to change the world and ourselves makes about as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
I am curious about many things, and find the world around me, and the people and objects and things in it, equally… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
The structure underlying the phenomena is not given by material objects like the atoms of Democritus but by the form that determines… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object,… — Egon Friedell Copy Share Image
Modern woman is no longer satisfied to be the beloved of a man; she looks for understanding, comradeship; she wants to be… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
Zen purposes to discipline the mind itself, to make it its own master, through an insight into its proper nature. This getting… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences... That solves a lot of problems… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image