Object Quotes

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Strange star-like object over Oslo right before Obama arrives. A gift of a golden medal given by a group of wise men... Nah. — Craig Ferguson
Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen… — Robert Hughes
One of the world's most tiresome questions is what object one would bring to a desert island,because people always answer "a deck of cards" or… — Daniel Handler
the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause… — Anthony de Mello
In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal,… — Alan Lightman
Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch,… — Yukio Mishima
Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. — Timothy Keller
Put any woman in an area run mostly by men and rumors will fly. Unless you make it very clear that you are off limits,… — Laurell K. Hamilton
We say 'forest' but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On a clear day… — Witold Gombrowicz
Bottles of wine aren't like paintings. At some point you have to consume them. The object in life is to die with no bottles of… — Jay McInerney
Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject. — Andre Breton
Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war. — George Orwell
Our object must be to bring our territory into harmony with the numbers of our population. — Adolf Hitler
One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we… — William Makepeace Thackeray
There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of… — Flannery O'Connor
The brooks flow to their lover, the sea, and the flowers smile at the object of their passion, the light. The mist rolls down to… — Khalil Gibran
You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He… — Melissa Bank
it was love, of course, though I didn't know it then and Finn was both its subject and object. He accepted love instinctively, without responsibility… — Meg Rosoff

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