Object Quotes

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There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the… — Charlotte Dacre
The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives. — Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin
No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last… — Charles Babbage
The radiation of radium was "contagious"-Contagious like a persistent scent or a disease. It was impossible for an object, a plant, an animal or a… — Eve Curie
Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended… — George Washington
We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this object is here… — Carlo Rovelli
Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight. — Rumi
Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I must admit that any favorable mention of the flying saucers by a scientist amounts to extreme heresy and places the one making the statement… — Frank B. Salisbury
All that is limited by form, semblance, sound, color is called object. Among them all, man alone is more than an object. Though, like objects,… — Zhuangzi
...the unprecedented rise of the Christian Social Party... was to assume the deepest significance for me as a classical object of study. — Adolf Hitler
I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it… — C.S. Lewis
Utilitarianism is a civilization of production and of use, a civilization of "things" and not of "persons," a civilization in which persons are used in… — Pope John Paul II
She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories. — Ellen Glasgow
It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons. The possession of a good rifle,… — Jeff Cooper
Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers. — John Churton Collins
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object. — Henry Fuseli
Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks… — Gaston Bachelard
Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union. — James Madison

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