Object Quotes

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.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

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 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.

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.

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

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

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard.

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.

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

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

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

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.

The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.

Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.

For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

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.