Object Quotes

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The object of Art is to give life a shape. — William Shakespeare
Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
â€¦everything has a past. Everything â€“ a person, an object, a word, everything. If you donâ€™t know the past, you canâ€™t understand the present and… — Chaim Potok
Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape… — Anne Michaels
If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even… — Hermann Hesse
Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person… — Erich Fromm
One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great… — Leonardo da Vinci
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally… — George Washington
People speak because they are afraid of silence. They speak mechanically whether aloud or to themselves. They are intoxicated by this vocal gruel that ensnares… — AndreÃ¯ Makine
The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one;… — Mark Twain
I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering… — Helen Keller
Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. — C.S. Lewis
Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you… — Frank Herbert
People say they 'find' love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the… — Mitch Albom
We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties of mankind. The… — Thomas Jefferson
An object, after all, is what makes infinity private. — Joseph Brodsky
The eye identifies itself not with the body it belongs to but with the object of its attention. — Joseph Brodsky
Nothing is really lost or can be lost, No birth, identity, form--no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing... The… — Nicholas Sparks
All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather… — Rebecca Solnit

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