Object Quotes

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The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. — Lucian Freud
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human… — Erich Fromm
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow. — Margaret Fuller
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. — Jean Genet
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. — Mahatma Gandhi
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation,… — Mahatma Gandhi
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. — Paul Gauguin
Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I… — William Gibson
And by the way I don't object if people want to attack me, that's their right. All I'm suggesting that it's not going to be… — Newt Gingrich
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in,… — William Godwin
That's the object of going to a gym, having fun. — Joe Gold
I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom. — Samuel Goldwyn
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only… — Robin G. Collingwood
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us -… — Charles Caleb Colton
The object of the superior man is truth. — Confucius
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been… — Joseph Conrad
I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly. — Mason Cooley
I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old… — Noel Coward

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