Object Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.