Plaything Quotes

27 Plaything quotes by 26 unique authors

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events… — Andre Breton
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything. — Thomas Love Peacock
From that night on, the electron-up to that time largely the plaything of the scientist-had clearly entered the field as a potent agent in the… — Robert Andrews Millikan
To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to… — Denis Diderot
I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of the whole house.… — John Brown
Chance makes a plaything of a man's life. — Seneca the Younger
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder,… — Alexander Pope
What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance,… — Plutarch
My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book,—it is… — Thomas Love Peacock
An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything. — W. Somerset Maugham
A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here… — Ralph Vaughan Williams
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. — Friedrich Nietzsche
She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything,… — Milan Kundera
Her butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, 'Boredom, fetch me a plaything.' He said 'Very good ma'am,' and putting on… — Jeanette Winterson
Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera -… — Rudyard Kipling
I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought;… — Jacques Lacan
I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for me, it started up as a… — John Collison
In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism should have been nothing if not a celebration of… — Marianne Williamson
I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and was there to protect principles and… — David Lange
Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in… — Stephen Baker
To me, film right now is dormant. It's a sleeping giant. It's the plaything of corporations. The people who determine what American film is today… — William Friedkin
The first reason for mans inner slavery is his ignorance, and above all, his ignorance of himself. Without self-knowledge, without understanding the working and functions… — George Gurdjieff
God's most beloved plaything are Humans — Mak_786

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