Objects Quotes

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Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone. — Lisa Alther
People, when they are frustrated with worldly desires, start changing the object: they start making otherworldly objects of desire - heaven, paradise, and all the… — Rajneesh
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife,… — Marya Mannes
I suddenly became strangely inebriated. The external world became changed as in a dream. Objects appeared to gain in relief; they assumed unusual dimensions; and… — Albert Hofmann
Air Force interceptors still pursue Unidentified Flying Objects as a matter of national security to this country and to determine technical aspects involved. — Joe W. Kelly
The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. There are objects approximating the shape of a disc, some of which appear flat on… — Nathan Farragut Twining
Our thoughts ought by instinct to fly upwards from animals, men and natural objects to their creator. If created things are so utterly lovely, how… — Anthony of Padua
Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of… — Alain de Botton
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like… — Leigh Hunt
Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a… — Donna J. Haraway
Knowing all objects to be impermanent, let not their contact blind you, resolve again and again to be aware of the Self that is permanent. — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum… — Bernard d'Espagnat
It is no small advantage to the holy life to "begin the day with God." The saints are wont to leave their hearts with Him… — Thomas Case
Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside our laboratories, up… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
His [Henry Cavendish's] Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered,… — George Wilson
The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist… — Antoine Lavoisier
We stand for a use of color free from the imitation of things as colored objects. We stand for an aerial vision in which the… — Carlo Carra
The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found… — Rudolf Virchow
And when with excellent Microscopes I discern in otherwise invisible Objects the Inimitable Subtlety of Nature's Curious Workmanship; And when, in a word, by the… — Robert Boyle
The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not… — John N. Bahcall

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