Objects Quotes
1197 quotes by 854 authors
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The Photograph belongs to that class of laminated objects whose two leaves cannot be separated without destroying them both: the windowpane and the landscape, and…
— Roland Barthes
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As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to perceive the things…
— Wynn Bullock
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We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done…
— Charles Dickens
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
— Ludwig von Mises
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When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases-perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies-for which there is no…
— Margaret Mead
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The type of UFO reports that are most intriguing are close-range sightings of machinelike objects of unconventional nature and unconventional performance characteristics, seen at low…
— James E. McDonald
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It is time for the truth to be brought out... Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through…
— Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter
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There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.
— Adi Shankara
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Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have within his reach, in himself…
— Arthur Balfour
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The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were…
— Sinclair Lewis
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All that is limited by form, semblance, sound, color is called object. Among them all, man alone is more than an object. Though, like objects,…
— Zhuangzi
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The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.
— Thomas Berry
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My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the…
— Martin Van Buren
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If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and…
— Thomas Browne
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Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.
— James Madison
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There will be calmness, tranquility, when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.
— Bruce Lee
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Comparing objects like cars, houses, clothes, and defining life according to those comparisons, instead of trying to discover the real reason for being alive.
— Paulo Coelho
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Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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