Object Quotes

2140 quotes by 1419 authors

The object of our being placed upon this earth is that we may work out an exaltation, that we may prepare ourselves to go back… — Heber J. Grant
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. — Thomas B. Macaulay
He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or would ever care… — Dean Koontz
On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as… — Jorge Luis Borges
Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the… — Agatha Christie
Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character — Karl Jaspers
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by… — Simone Weil
People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything. — Jonathan Haidt
The object of jihad is to bring the whole world under Islamic Law. — Bernard Lewis
The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation â€“ to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw… — Huston Smith
Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated… — Bix Beiderbecke
And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had… — Walter Pater
You know, right often, the body is the best thing weâ€™ve got going for us. A body itself is a shiny object. Something! — Allan Gurganus
That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when… — Ezra Taft Benson
It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from… — Pope Benedict XVI
A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential… — Susan Hill
I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and disciplined, because you… — Alice Munro
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make in… — Lucian Freud
A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object. — Howard Hodgkin
Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object. — Plotinus

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