Object Quotes

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It is strange,' pursued he, 'that while I love Rosomond Oliver so wildly-with all the intensity, indeed, of a first passion, the object of which… — Charlotte Bronte
I look sad because I don't have the courage to escape from you. And I think I don't want to understand the truth: for you,… — Consuelo de Saint-ExupÃ©ry
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all,… — Abraham Lincoln
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story. — Wilkie Collins
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference… — Patrick Henry
The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the… — Hannah Arendt
Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their… — C.S. Lewis
Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart. — Dorothy Parker
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there. 2. Pigs have… — Diana Wynne Jones
What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy? — Jeanette Winterson
The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The… — George Orwell
We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
I submit that Zooey's face was close to being a wholly beautiful face. As such, it was of course vulnerable to the same variety of… — J D Salinger
Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that… — Joseph Heller
Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other… — Andy Warhol
The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself. — Zadie Smith
Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object â€“ we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to… — C.S. Lewis
The soul is the form of the body, but not as the shape of a statue is formatio et terminatio materiae, for form does not… — Michael Flynn
Most vagabonds i knowed don't ever want to find the culprit that remains the object of their long relentless quest. The obsession's in the chasing… — Tom Waits

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