First Object Quotes

27 quotes by 20 authors

• We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade… — William Barclay
• The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left… — Thomas Jefferson
• No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may… — Thomas Jefferson
• The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition. — Thomas Jefferson
• Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game — Wilhelm Steinitz
• The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship, which was then riding at… — Olaudah Equiano
• The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests.… — James Madison
• To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate. — Robert Owen
• There was a child went forth everyday, And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or dread, that object he… — Walt Whitman
• In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men… — Frederick Winslow Taylor
• Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements. — Theodor Herzl
• It has been said by a certain general, that the first object in the establishment of an army ought to be making provision for the… — Frederick The Great
• The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future.… — Ted Sizer
• The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane — Leonardo da Vinci
• The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy. — Johann Heinrich Lambert
• Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia. — Mary Parker Follett
• Public instruction should be the first object of government. — Napoleon Bonaparte
• The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. — James Madison
• The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.… — James Madison
• If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the… — Blaise Pascal

Who Wrote These First Object Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 27 First Object Quotes as follows:

• 4 First Object Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
• 3 First Object Quotes by James Madison
• 2 First Object Quotes by Walt Whitman
• 2 First Object Quotes by Blaise Pascal
• 1 First Object Quote by William Barclay
• 1 First Object Quote by Wilhelm Steinitz
• 1 First Object Quote by Olaudah Equiano
• 1 First Object Quote by Robert Owen
• 1 First Object Quote by Frederick Winslow Taylor
• 1 First Object Quote by Theodor Herzl
• 1 First Object Quote by Frederick The Great
• 1 First Object Quote by Ted Sizer
• 1 First Object Quote by Leonardo da Vinci
• 1 First Object Quote by Johann Heinrich Lambert
• 1 First Object Quote by Mary Parker Follett
• 1 First Object Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
• 1 First Object Quote by Jane Austen
• 1 First Object Quote by Terry Pratchett
• 1 First Object Quote by John James Audubon
• 1 First Object Quote by Frederick W. Taylor