Object Quotes

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People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity… — Leo Tolstoy
Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new. — Leo Tolstoy
The true object of human life is play. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages:… — Horace
A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone... but it… — Hans Arp
Go not to the object; let the object come to you. — Henry David Thoreau
The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin. — Saadi
In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued. — Eric Hoffer
To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy… — Dave Barry
I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? — William Lloyd Garrison
What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if no one know… — William Hazlitt
The light for drawing from nature should come from the North in order that it may not vary. And if you have it from the… — Leonardo da Vinci
Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow. — Lord Chesterfield
Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork... They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points… — Elizabeth Bowen
When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the object... Fragmentation helped… — Georges Braque
I conceived at least one great love in my life, of which I was always the object. — Albert Camus
The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant. — Joseph Campbell
There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced… — Edmund Burke

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