Object Quotes

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 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.

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 mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

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.

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.