Object Quotes

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An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me. — Samuel Alexander
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. — Albert Camus
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? — Thomas Carlyle
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but… — Dale Carnegie
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes,… — Paul Cezanne
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. — Paul Cezanne
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or… — Marc Chagall
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains. — Coco Chanel
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great. — William Ellery Channing
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes. — Carl von Clausewitz
Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object. — Chuck Close
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite… — Henri Frederic Amiel
I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but… — Tori Amos
In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object… — Tadao Ando
All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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