One Object Quotes
30 quotes by 25 authors
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Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by man that is…
— Annie Besant
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Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the…
— David Hume
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The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.
— George Henry Lewes
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The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects;…
— William Stanley Jevons
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Let the one great aim and ideal be to lift up and universalize our affection, so that while it is as deep and intimate as…
— Nilakanta Sri Ram
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That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities.
— Jonathan Ive
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A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through…
— George Orwell
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The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to…
— Edmund Burke
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He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.
— Ignatius of Antioch
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No earthly pleasures, no kingdoms of this world can benefit me in any way. I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a…
— John Knox
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The fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight forward in order…
— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such…
— Arthur E Waite
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Constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centered…
— P T Barnum
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The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it…
— Ad Reinhardt
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The mind generally takes up various objects, runs into all sorts of things. That is the lower state. There is a higher state of the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world…
— Cecil Rhodes
Who Wrote These One Object Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 30 One Object Quotes as follows: