Object Quotes

Desire creates its own object.

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.

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

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.