Object Quotes
2140 quotes by 1419 authors
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The only object of liberty is life.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures,…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most strongly. Home, in…
— J. G. Holland
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This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there is a road…
— Sun Tzu
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Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity.…
— Emile Durkheim
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The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil…
— Benjamin Peirce
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Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.
— Eberhard Arnold
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Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man's…
— Roger Angell
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Ungrateful people breed negativity. No one gets any pleasure from giving to an ungrateful person. When you show appreciation, the object of your attention blossoms…
— Paul McCabe
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Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.
— Sydney J. Harris
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Atheists themselves used to be very comfortable in maintaining that the universe is eternal and uncaused. The problem is that they can no longer hold…
— William Lane Craig
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Something inside you emerges....an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what you had been…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live…
— Teresa Medeiros
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The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.
— Max Stirner
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We know not the matter of the things for which we should pray, neither the object to whom we pray, nor the medium by or…
— John Bunyan
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We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade…
— William Barclay
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action…
— Napoleon Hill
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what is wanting to restore us to our station among our confederates? not more money from the people. enough has been raised by them, and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Victory is the main object in war.
— Sun Tzu
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