Object Quotes

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.

My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.

I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.

On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of a tree seen in the clear water under the boat was the only evidence of its existence; though a few hours ago it had formed so prominent an object.