Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
The whole object of my life has been to inculcate into Cornish people a sense of their Cornishness. — Henry Jenner Copy Share Image
What wealth have you, if you have not got Christ? If Christ is the object before you, will all the things that… — George Wigram Copy Share Image
Ever since I was little, I’ve loved making hand-made cards and presents and arts & crafts for people. The book gives me… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
“I thought of that lost book and all the memories it held and how it was just one of millions of objects… — Glenn Haybittle Copy Share Image
I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Through life let your principal object be the discharge of duty. — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Even the most mundane objects are things of wonder, if we stop to look at them, and the fact that we are… — David Fontana 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
Perhaps looking out through big baby eyes - if we could - would not be as revelatory experience as many imagine. We… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in order to try… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
When reality is perceived in its nature of ultimate perfection, the practitioner has reached a level of wisdom called non-discrimination mind -… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Dominique as Gail looks at her "... there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence." — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All is energy and there is no energy higher than right love, which has no object — Barry Long 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
The Photograph belongs to that class of laminated objects whose two leaves cannot be separated without destroying them both: the windowpane and… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
People, when they are frustrated with worldly desires, start changing the object: they start making otherworldly objects of desire - heaven, paradise,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
[I have a] way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects.… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
This merely formal conceiving of the facts of one's own wretchedness is at the same time a departure from them--placing them in… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
“Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
With respect to phenomena like mass extinction, somebody might say why worry about it because in a geological perspective mass extinctions aren't… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is… — Lewis Hine Copy Share Image
What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
My object is to live in a place that does not call itself 'the community with a heart.' I want one of… — Florence King Copy Share Image
All that is limited by form, semblance, sound, color is called object. Among them all, man alone is more than an object.… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the… — Euripides Copy Share Image
For example, the idea that objects have properties out there in fixed ways is an incorrect idea about the world. Properties are… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a… — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image