Objects Quotes

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My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups… — Russell Page
All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors, but seem to… — Italo Calvino
A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete… — Alexander Hamilton
No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day. — Jack Smith
As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them.… — Maurice Sendak
Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable… — John Ruskin
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered. — Winston Churchill
All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them. — William Wordsworth
Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself. — Thomas Carlyle
Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with… — Joseph Addison
Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects. — William Hazlitt
Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp… — Sigmund Freud
Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The… — Karl Marx
Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to… — Brenda Ueland
I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I… — Krista Allen
What can it be about low temperatures that sharpens the edges of objects? — Ian Mcewan
The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an… — Jean Piaget
Space and time are not objects of perception, but qualities of awareness — Deepak Chopra
If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to exist even though… — Martin Gardner

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