Objects Quotes

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Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as… — Blaise Pascal
In Terezaâ€™s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her:… — Milan Kundera
Where do vanished objects go?" "Into nonbeing, which is to say, everything," replied Professor McGonagall. "Nicely phrased," replied the eagle door knocker, and the door… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Grover started to sniffle and I figured if I didn't cheer him up he'd either start bawling or chewing up my mattress. He tends to… — Rick Riordan
So many objects, so many memories. Each was being labelled and packed away in bags just as it was in her mind. To be stored… — Cecelia Ahern
For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them… — Stefan Zweig
I wonder sometimes what the memory of God looks like. Is it a palace of infinite rooms, a chest of many jeweled objects, a long,… — Catherynne M. Valente
Sonnet XXV Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own: I wavered through the streets, among Objects: Nothing mattered or had a name: The… — Pablo Neruda
For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space ;… — Virginia Woolf
The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects. — Pierre Bourdieu
The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning… — C.S. Lewis
When people learn to master their feelings, they can soon learn to master their reflections and thoughts in the degree requisite for attaining the objects… — Brigham Young
What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of… — Annie Dillard
we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things. — Sherry Turkle
In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the… — Suzanne Collins
I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics. — Karen Marie Moning
I don't know many rules to live by,' he'd said. 'But here's one. It's simple. Don't put anything unnecessary into yourself. No poisons or chemicals,… — Laini Taylor
Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up. — Stephen King
What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and… — Elizabeth von Arnim
...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as though… — Alberto Moravia

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