Object Quotes

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But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would… — Bob Schieffer
Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold… — Friedrich Schiller
The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot… — Erwin Schrodinger
I panicked when my son, Jett, stopped eating baby food. He's only two, but his food vocabulary is fantastic. He likes my baked tilapia and… — Jill Scott
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. — George Bernard Shaw
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it. — George Bernard Shaw
A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity… — Nate Silver
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. — Sivananda
I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a… — Jane Smiley
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world. — Robert Smithson
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Education has for its object the formation of character. — Herbert Spencer
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. — Baruch Spinoza
I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a… — Charles Spurgeon
The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered. — Richard Steele
Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of… — Thomas Szasz
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their… — Leo Tolstoy
An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful. — Queen Victoria
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks.… — Gore Vidal

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