Object Quotes

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The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it… — Joyce Cary
My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of… — Georges Cuvier
The physiologist is not a man of the world, he is a scientist, a man caught and absorbed by a scientific idea that he pursues;… — Claude Bernard
Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activity… — John Cowper Powys
Normally I object to strangers beaming force fields into my brain. — Mary Roach
The reverence that the object maker has for the materials, for the shape, and for the miracle of his skill transcends to God, the Master… — Sam Maloof
An object imbued with intent â€” it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent â€” it's random, it's imitative,… — John Hockenberry
People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because… — Truman Capote
The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out… — John Calvin
[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects. — Michael Hansmeyer
What if every seemingly isolated object was actually just where the continuous wave of that object poked through into our world? — Reuben Heyday Margolin
In reviewing the most mysterious doctrines of revelation, the ultimate appeal is to reason, not to determine whether she could have discovered these truths; not… — Archibald Alexander
The last decisive energy of a rational courage which confides in the Supreme Power is very sublime. It makes a man who intrepidly dares every… — Randolph Sinks Foster
However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum
I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of… — Max Beckmann
In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it. — Max Beckmann
It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Give us our parliament in Scotland. We will start with no traditions. We will start with ideals. We will start with purpose, with courage. We… — James Maxton
The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a… — Ho Chi Minh
They say that when youâ€™re really in love, the world becomes gossamer and gorgeous, but in my experience the world gets grimy, and the love… — Daniel Handler

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