Then when [ISIS] moved into Iraq, the Sunni Muslims didn’t object to their being there and about a third of the territory… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser… — Sloane Crosley 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
I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the colour and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would… — Naoto Fukasawa Copy Share Image
I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen. — Ted Williams Copy Share Image
Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
I don't get a big charge out of being the leading scorer. The object of competing is winning. I just try to… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Every purely natural object is a conductor of divinity, and we have but to expose ourselves in a clean condition to any… — John Muir Copy Share Image
A thinking that approaches it objects openly, rigorously ... is also free toward its objects in the sense that it refuses to… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
When it comes to Jewish sensitivity, I don't find the proposition compelling that non-Jews have no right to comment. We all have… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects? It is an extra dimension of feeling… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of… — John Galt Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a site where I wasn't mailing physical things to people, but I was still giving people things, and… — Mary Mattingly Copy Share Image
Thought is not what inhabits a certain conduct and gives it its meaning; rather, it is what allows one to step back… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Give us our parliament in Scotland. We will start with no traditions. We will start with ideals. We will start with purpose,… — James Maxton Copy Share Image
If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein Copy Share Image
While it does, and should, feel good to be appreciated by another person, if you are dependent upon their appreciation to feel… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition. — Isaac Parker Copy Share Image
The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
“We were in separate realities, fast and slow. There is no fixed reality, only objects in contrast.” — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as… — Anne Sullivan Macy Copy Share Image
It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're an adult you can make the decision… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
I think people who make objects like the distance; they're not there when the other person is taking it in. — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
Focus on an object of some type, hopefully an object that's beautiful or powerful. You could find a pretty colored stone that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can… — Karl Kraus 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
I am never afraid to serve the society. And if someone objects, I will send them a garland. — Mayawati Copy Share Image
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
... our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary. — Charlotte Moss Copy Share Image
Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
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