Object Quotes

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Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself… — Blaise Pascal
It belongs to American liberty to separate entirely from the political government the institution which has its object the support and diffusion of religion — Francis Lieber
The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily. — Frank Gaffney
It is important to realize that whatever we do or design has iconographic references, it comes from somewhere; any form is always metaphorical, never totally… — Ettore Sottsass
She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose… — Raymond Chandler
Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object. — Michel de Montaigne
To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor… — George Bernard Shaw
For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land. — Anatole Broyard
Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent… — Lydia Sigourney
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with… — Roland Barthes
The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'. — Benoit Mandelbrot
The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is… — Reginald Horace Blyth
The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have… — A. A. Gill
The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use/ possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures... the earth belongs to itself and… — Thomas Berry
Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense. — David Foster Wallace
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it. — Boris Pasternak
I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the… — Ai Weiwei
Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world. — Ludwig Boltzmann
I do not mind if you think slowly, but I do object when you publish more quickly than you think. — Wolfgang Paul
What is â€¦ important is that we â€” number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in… — Jonas Salk

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