Object Quotes
2140 quotes by 1376 authors
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A natural faith is sufficient for trusting a human object; but a supernatural faith is required to savingly trust in a Divine object.
— Arthur W. Pink
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We should go boldly where man has not gone before. Fly by the comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There's a monolith there.…
— Buzz Aldrin
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With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.
— James Turrell
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Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world...Photography is a system of…
— Hiroshi Sugimoto
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When a person disappears, everything becomes impregnated with that person's presence. Every single object as well as every space becomes a reminder of absence, as…
— Doris Salcedo
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We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is…
— Alfred Edersheim
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When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler's,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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...I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and…
— Harriet Martineau
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All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
— H. L. Mencken
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In the end I would always pull up with a sense of glory, that loving is the strong side. It's feeble to be an object.…
— Katherine Dunn
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Love at first sight is a revival of an infantile impression. The first love object reappears in a different disguise.
— Wilhelm Stekel
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But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if…
— Sigmund Freud
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I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.
— Philip Treacy
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When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
— Idries Shah
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The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at all. It is…
— William Barrett
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It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.
— Albert Schweitzer
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I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy.
— Eric Allman
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If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is…
— Michael Steinhardt
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