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Object Quotes by Julian Barnes
- How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We…
- And if you had no tongue, no celebrating language, you’d do this: cross your hands at the wrist with palms facing towards you; place your…
- Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve?…
More Object Quotes
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing… — Margaret Atwood
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
- There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge,… — Charles Babbage
- A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely… — Honore de Balzac
- The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them. — Charles Barkley
- To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. — Simone de Beauvoir
- Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. — Joseph Addison
- We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting… — Arnold Bennett
- Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order… — Annie Besant
- Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by… — Annie Besant