Object Quotes

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The object of leadership may be stated as having a system whereby a leader recognizes what is good for the good of the government, for… — Arleigh Burke
Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels. — Charles Caleb Colton
Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? — Confucius
When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold a ray of the infinite… — Alphonsus Liguori
The advent of the rubber ball was instrumental in creating an entirely different method of striking the object. The solid ball required to be hit… — Harry Vardon
The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win. — Phil Mickelson
I'd like to see the government back a programme of research into the medical properties of cannabis and I do not object to its responsible… — Richard Branson
Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself. — E. O. Wilson
The object of love is to serve, not to win — Woodrow Wilson
The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself. — Wystan Hugh Auden
It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration… — Napoleon Bonaparte
PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for… — Ambrose Bierce
They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight… — Malcolm X
We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it… — Abraham Lincoln
The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue… — Benjamin Rush
In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object. — Thomas Jefferson
[T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his… — Thomas Jefferson
From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals,… — Charles Darwin
Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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