Object Quotes

2140 quotes by 1419 authors

We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered… — Rene Magritte
The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for… — Rabindranath Tagore
If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being… — Brian Ferneyhough
When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are… — Emile Chartier
You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object. — Frederick Franck
Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness... meaning at-oneness, the state of being at one with the object. — D. H. Lawrence
I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a… — William Melmoth
Faith is only as valid as its object. You could have tremendous faith in very thin ice and drown. . . . You could have… — Stuart Briscoe
As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration, and in ancient… — Sigmund Freud
When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object… — Charles Dickens
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships. — Paul Cezanne
I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of… — George Washington
I was never the sort of child who believed in "monsters under the bed" or vampires, or who needed a night-light in his bedroom; on… — David Foster Wallace
We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love. — Vincent de Paul
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to… — Edmund Burke
Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul. — Margaret Thatcher
There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel, or fear, but… — Anne Bradstreet
The object of war is to survive it. — John Irving
My wife is a sex object. Every time I ask for sex, she objects. — Les Dawson
I think I must be, absolutely, a total sex object. In every sense of the word. — Steven Morrissey

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