Object Quotes

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In no way can sport be considered a luxury object. — Pierre de Coubertin
...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable… — Toni Morrison
The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being… — Arthur Schopenhauer
"But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves,… — George MacDonald
The statistical method is required in the interpretation of figures which are at the mercy of numerous influences, and its object is to determine whether… — Austin Bradford Hill
I end with a word on the new symbols which I have employed. Most writers on logic strongly object to all symbols. ... I should… — Augustus De Morgan
If there's no background, no foreground, no opposition, no complements, then there's no change becasue there's no subject and object. — Frederick Lenz
The dreams of existence of that we call time, space, matter, subject, object, yin, yang - everything flows forth from this tai chi. — Frederick Lenz
All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end. — Blaise Pascal
There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near. — Leonardo da Vinci
The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search. — Ernest Dimnet
Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it. — Swami Vivekananda
From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had been undergoing a… — Jules Verne
Do you want to improve the world? I don't think it can be done. The world is sacred. It can't be improved. If you tamper… — Laozi
To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection. — Henry Charles Carey
Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza.… — Joshua Foer
It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the object as a… — Clarence John Laughlin
My position is perfectly definite. Gravitation, motion, heat, light, electricity and chemical action are one and the same object in various forms of manifestation. — Robert Mayer
You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win. — Woodrow Wilson
The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge… — George Bernard Shaw

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