Object Quotes

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I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the… — Odilon Redon
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics… — John C. Portman, Jr.
Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard… — P T Barnum
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his… — Earl Nightingale
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save… — Abraham Lincoln
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to… — Thomas Carlyle
War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace. — William Tecumseh Sherman
We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to… — Andrew Coyle Bradley
You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. — Elias Canetti
The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it. — Jacques Hadamard
What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to… — Milton Friedman
Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the… — John Maynard Keynes
Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages itself. It seeks… — Maurice Blanchot
Ideally, nothing should be embraced by a consumer firmly, nothing should command a commitment till death do us part, no needs should be seen as… — Zygmunt Bauman
Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is… — J I Packer
Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aimâ€”arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object. — Jack Kornfield
What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy. — Bertrand Russell
The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist....It is a living… — Thomas Merton
People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss… — Marie-Louise von Franz
The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation… — Mircea Eliade

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