Objects Quotes · Page 44

You can't just look at the side of something that you want to see. You have to look at the whole round…

— Dan Mangan

When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move…

— Elizabeth Bowen

What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system,…

— James Madison

The object . . . is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious…

— Francis Galton

To be the object of somebody's obsession is a really awful feeling when you can't return it.

— Tippi Hedren

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the…

— Walter Pater

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

— Walter Benjamin

Photography... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination.

— Joan Fontcuberta

A part of the plan for creating discord, is, I perceive, to make me say things of others, and others of me,…

— George Washington

Since UFO stands for "unidentified flying object", the word ufology means approximately "knowledge about unknown flying objects", and is therefore a "science"…

— Lucio Russo

Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection…

— Gretchen Rubin

In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only,…

— James Madison

Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if…

— Gorgias

We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of…

— Abraham Flexner

I wasn't into Tolkien at school really. But the story is timeless, the themes that it touches on are contained in cultures…

— Billy Boyd

In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree, that they aren't even considered victims. They aren't even considered…

— Gary Yourofsky

I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common…

— Isaac Newton

Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes during the day, I consciously focus on some ordinary object and allow myself a momentary "paying-attention." This paying-attention gives meaning to…

— Robert Fulghum

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and…

— David Hume

When we talk about 'reproductive rights' this is what we mean. It's the difference between people as objects, and people as agents:…

— Nafis Sadik

They who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating…

— Henry David Thoreau

Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be…

— George Lakoff

If I am going somewhere exotic, I take an empty suitcase with me to bring back the objects I fall in love…

— Alain Ducasse

A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that…

— Joseph Addison

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.

— Timothy Gowers

Whether we think of, or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no…

— John Wesley

All consciousness is consciousness of something: in thinking I am aware that my thought is 'pointing towards' some object.

— Terry Eagleton

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

— Mike Mills

It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into…

— Zaha Hadid

If believers worship with gladness and passion, anyone not yet a part of the community certainly will be attracted to the One…

— Marva Dawn

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I…

— Socrates

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

— Cindy Sherman

Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love.

— Henry Fielding

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

The greater the value of the object desired, the greater the effort required in its attainment.

— Rudger Clawson

I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to…

— Carol Anshaw

The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.

— Pope Benedict XVI