Object Quotes

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.

It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.

I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.

We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.

'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.

That's the object of going to a gym, having fun.

Desire creates its own object.

To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible.

Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

The object of the law of value is to elucidate the actual exchange relations of commodities.

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.

Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.

To be honest, I really don't like being the sex object.

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.

The seed is a household object but at the same time it is a revolutionary symbol.

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.