Object Quotes

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There is no place in contemporary Karate-do for different schools. Some instructors, I know, claim to have invented new and unusual kata, and so they… — Gichin Funakoshi
The ten days we passed there [at Ta ChÃªng Tzu], we were the song of the drunkard and the jest of the abjects; but the… — James Gilmour
Remember us in your prayers that we grow not weary in well doing. It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all… — David Livingstone
It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives… — David Livingstone
The fall of Rome is often regarded as an object lesson in the wages of sin. Its contemporaries, however, more frequently laid the blame on… — Orosius
Consequential strangers help us stretch beyond the relatively rigid boxes that the people who have known us the longest - our family and close friends… — Melinda Blau
I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As already observed, there… — Aristotle
Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desire, and… — John Eudes
Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before… — Henri Bergson
The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind. — Rabindranath Tagore
In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh… — Arthur Bremer
[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by the state display… — Bob Black
Constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centered… — P T Barnum
Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women… — Fatema Mernissi
Itâ€™s paradoxical that the death of your quarry is besides the point and at the same time the whole point. A chase without a kill… — Philip Caputo
Falling in love was a solo act. I knew that, had learned that the hard way. You just jumped and hoped your parachute opened. Sometimes… — Eric Jerome Dickey
The baby looks at things all day without winking; that is because his eyes are not focused on any particular object. He goes without knowing… — Zhuangzi
The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the… — John Berger
Bill eventually became Mr Tottenham Hotspur, and produced such a dazzling team at White Hart Lane that they won the double and played the game… — Brian Clough

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