Object Quotes

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A game may be as integral to a culture, as true an object of human aesthetic appreciation, as admirable a product of creativity as a… — Michael Dummett
The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse. — George Henry Lewes
The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it. — Stu Jackson
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an appearance of confusion,… — John Robert Seeley
Wonder-the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge-promises to become the point of departure for genuine… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it… — Ariana Franklin
Somehow she knew he would take a love affair very seriously indeed. Once that pinpoint focus was engaged, he would throw himself body and soul… — Elizabeth Hoyt
The noblest relationship is marriage, that is, love. Its nobility resides in its altruism, the desire to serve another beyond all the pleasures of the… — John Fowles
That people will object very much to seeing a predator killing its prey, and yet, in the news, will accept showing shots of people shooting… — David Attenborough
The work ... was ... so blinding that I could scarcely see afterwards, and the difficulty was increased by the fact that my microscope was… — Ronald Ross
The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved. — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
Perception without the perceiver in meditation is to commune with the height and depth of the immense. This perception is entirely different from seeing an… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
What are you to do? You are always to remember that you are the child of a Great Father. You must not think that you… — Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to… — William James
One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And… — Winston Churchill
His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time this happens I… — Joan Didion
This provision (the 4th Amendment) speaks for itself. Its plain object is to secure the perfect enjoyment of that great right of the common law,… — Joseph Story
Whatsoever accidents Or qualities our sense make us think there be in the world, they are not there, but are seemings and apparitions only. The… — Thomas Hobbes
I now know that to do a worthwhile family history I must interpret the past without falling into either demonizing or unquestioning acceptance. . .… — David Henry Hwang

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