Object Quotes

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The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you… — Simon Cowell
I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here. — Sloane Crosley
If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary. — Robert Delaunay
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction. — John Dewey
I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons. — Junot Diaz
Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. — Edsger Dijkstra
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must… — Thomas A. Edison
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort. — Epictetus
What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it. — Marc Faber
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. — Zaha Hadid
I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do… — Laurell K. Hamilton
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. — Thomas Hardy
I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication… — Keith Haring
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification… — Friedrich August von Hayek
To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible. — Tippi Hedren
I don't know if you have ever been the object of someone's obsession - but if it's not of your desire, it is horrible. It… — Tippi Hedren
Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life. — Tippi Hedren
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price. — Napoleon Hill
The great object is that every man be armed. — Patrick Henry

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