Object Quotes

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the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds. — B.F. Skinner
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. The tree that you are aware… — Robert M. Pirsig
No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the… — Alan Watts
There's nothing sweeter than a real friend: Not only is he prompt to lendâ€” An angler delicate, he fishes The very deepest of your wishes,… — Jean de La Fontaine
Our sadness wonâ€™t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us,… — Alain de Botton
She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man. — Jane Austen
I gave him a smile that I hoped was as dazzling as one of his. "I realized I'm in love." Marcus, startled, looked around as… — Richelle Mead
An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation — Steven Levitt
Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about;… — Alfred Korzybski
The creative mind plays with the object it loves. — Carl Jung
You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, that is what you are hunting for, that… — Soren Kierkegaard
In any society, order is the first need of all. Liberty and justice may be established only after order is tolerably secure. But the libertarians… — Russell Kirk
I love, because my love is not dependent on the object of love. My love is dependent on my state of being. So whether the… — Rajneesh
And it was kind of funny to see all these professional fighters unwilling to get within a mile of the female. Then again, if you… — J R Ward
...the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need. — Julian of Norwich
Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one… — Anthony Marra
Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the… — Sigmund Freud
I'm a big believer in the negligee, that nearly invisible screen standing between you and the object of your desire. — Marcus Samuelsson
I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past… — Jacques Lacan

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