Object Quotes

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Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force. — Ogden Nash
Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements. — Theodor Herzl
Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting… — Karl Philipp Moritz
Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly,… — Helen Keller
There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme… — Aleister Crowley
Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression. — Henry Home, Lord Kames
The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon. — C. Lloyd Morgan
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their… — Isabel Paterson
Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves. — Zhuangzi
Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He… — Edmund Burke
The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is… — Oliver Goldsmith
If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture… — Joseph Addison
Their object is disunion. — Andrew Jackson
Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness… — C.S. Lewis
The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius. — Lord Chesterfield
When we look at an object in a different way our perception of it immediately changes. But reality always stays the same... — Sergio Pinto
When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for… — Grenville Kleiser
The object is freedom. — Anne Bogart
The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself.… — Alan Watts
A Jew is for me an object of disgust. I feel like vomiting when I see one. Christ could not possibly have been a Jew.… — Joseph Goebbels

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