Objects Quotes

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They who love to inform themselves, are never idle. Though I have no business of consequence to take care of, I am nevertheless continually employed.… — Baron de Montesquieu
But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of… — Terence McKenna
Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and the animals. They… — Leslie Marmon Silko
I was a hundred-percent sick, I felt as if I had no further use for my legs, they just hung over the edge of my… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important,… — Sheila Heti
For many years, Sierra had compared the Holy Spirit to the wind, as it said the the Bible, noting that it was always there, no… — Robin Jones Gunn
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
So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time.… — Amy Tan
Little soul, gentle and drifting, guest and companion of my body, now you will dwell below in pallid places, stark and bare; there you will… — Marguerite Yourcenar
I am certain that over the course of your own life, you have noticed that people's rooms reflect their personalities. In my room, for instance,… — Daniel Handler
In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for a moment Nicholas could not help admiring them again.… — Trenton Lee Stewart
Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for… — Franz Kafka
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular… — Anne Carson
Gene told me the next day that I got it wrong. But he was not in a taxi, after an evening of total sensory overload,… — Graeme Simsion
From Ronan's room, he heard Noah's laugh. He and Ronan were throwing various objects from the second-story window to the parking low below. There was… — Maggie Stiefvater
Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Onlyâ€”if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesnâ€™t it?… — Donna Tartt
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. — Marcus Aurelius
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we labour to investigate… — Joseph Paxton
What must be the knowledge of Him, from whom all created minds have derived both their power of knowledge, and the innumerable objects of their… — Timothy Dwight IV

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