Object Quotes

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War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. — George Washington
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object… — Simone Weil
I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and… — Walt Whitman
There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe. — Walt Whitman
The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object. — William Wilberforce
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. — Oscar Wilde
I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of… — Andrew Wyeth
I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have. — Felix Dennis
Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island… — Martin Filler
The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging. — Margaret Heffernan
Once a teen has been identified as part of the 'target market,' he knows he's done for. The object of the game is to confound… — Douglas Rushkoff
As the rain falls so does your love bathe every open object of the world — William Carlos Williams
Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always… — William James
I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot. — Stella Gibbons
She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. — Thomas Jefferson
My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a foul carcass On… — Charles Baudelaire
I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footingâ€¦. Iâ€™m a cloud, congealed around a central object,… — Margaret Atwood
Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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