Object Quotes

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The expenses of government, having for their object the interest of all, should be borne by everyone, and the more a man enjoys the advantages… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree. — John Naka
The human brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos. — Owen Gingerich
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without… — Confucius
The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world. — Annie Dillard
America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples. — William Ralph Inge
Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire. — Thomas a Kempis
To mention a loved object, a person, or a place to someone else is to invest that object with reality. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so… — Dalai Lama
The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone. — Wendy Wasserstein
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it — Marc Chagall
Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat… — Evelyn Waugh
It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object… — Matthew Simpson
For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there… — Allen Tate
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. — George Meredith

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