Object Quotes

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We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no doubt vital to… — Winston Churchill
There are several differences between a football game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms.… — Alfred Hitchcock
No one can say I married my husband for his money. I married him because he's a beautiful art object. — Mary Fairfax
I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a certain amount of… — Michael Dorris
Passion is the energy that love creates with no object other than itself. — Deepak Chopra
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through… — George Orwell
The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition. — Thomas Jefferson
The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated… — Thomas Jefferson
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction. — Thomas Jefferson
He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself and… — Thomas Jefferson
The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he… — Ford Madox Ford
Above all we need, particularly as children, the reassuring presence of a visible community, an intimate group that enfolds us with understanding and love, and… — Lewis Mumford
Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its object the preservation… — Mikhail Bakunin
An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used… — Robert Foster Bennett
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the… — Joan Didion
It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see. — Flannery O'Connor
I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one. — George Sand
The natural object is always the adequate symbol. — Ezra Pound
Our object is the economic freedom of the producing classes; this ultimate goal will be attained after a long and bitter struggle; therefore, our primary… — M. N. Roy
Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. — Minor White

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