Object Quotes

In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.

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

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

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

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

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

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God.

As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am.

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy.

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

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

My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.

In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?