Object Quotes

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Men protect things they find important," Galladon said with a shrug. "If you object, you shouldn't have made yourself so irreplaceable.Kolo?" -Brandon Sanderson (Elantris) — Brandon Sanderson
I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return, that… — Kate Morton
An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better. — Rene Magritte
It isn't a matter of how long, or even how much you know. It's a way of looking at things, how much you see and… — Hilari Bell
To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to,… — Alain de Botton
Summer is a Latvian chicken. We make foolish choices. We think weâ€™re young again. We run with outstretched arms toward an object of love and… — Gary Shteyngart
It was a blessing and also a curse of handwritten letters that unlike email you couldnâ€™t obsessively reread what youâ€™d written after youâ€™d sent it.… — Ann Brashares
I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual.… — C.S. Lewis
They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really. Go limp and tumble to… — Tim O'Brien
At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it. — Janis Joplin
Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when… — Ambrose Bierce
Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root. — Sharon Salzberg
One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. — Marquis de Sade
Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is… — Fulton J. Sheen
She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it. — Ayn Rand
God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty â€“ of want or lack; it is caused by a… — C.S. Lewis
We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not… — C.S. Lewis
What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by love. "Without love… — Josef Pieper
Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us… — George Orwell
But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules. — James Dashner

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