Object Quotes

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By the Angel, Bridgetâ€™s depressing,â€ said Henry, setting down his newspaper directly on his plate and causing the edge to soak through with egg yolk.… — Cassandra Clare
Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does… — Andrea Dworkin
I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably… — Soren Kierkegaard
The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy talesâ€™ concern is… — Bruno Bettelheim
No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to… — Paul Goodman
What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I donâ€™t know. Likewise, I donâ€™t know why I go on living, most… — M. John Harrison
That all oppositesâ€”such as mass and energy, subject and object, life and deathâ€”are so much each other that they are perfectly inseparable, still strikes most… — Ken Wilber
A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
There are certain truths which stand out so openly on the roadsides of life, as it were, that every passer-by may see them. Yet, because… — Adolf Hitler
The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good. — Dwight L. Moody
Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is a great mistake to regard a certain object as pleasurable in itself and to store the idea of it in the mind in… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve?… — Julian Barnes
If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo,… — Milan Kundera
Nothing you will object to," James replied in a soothing tone. I cannot think how he came to imagine that he would know what I… — Patricia C. Wrede
Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love. That is no metaphor, but the actual truth. Love does not cling to the I… — Martin Buber
It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's the funeral, family… — Barbara Taylor Bradford
Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections… — Bette Davis
For the first time, the object of what I want is more important than fulfilling my desires. — Abbi Glines
A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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