Object Quotes

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

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.

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.

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

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!

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?

Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.

Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

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

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

That said, your values will not always be the object of public admiration. In fact, the more you live by your beliefs, the more you will endure the censure of the world.