Object Quotes

Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

Desire creates its own object.

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

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.

It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present because, even when related to this or that object, it does not cling to it by reflection and thus lose its original mobility.

In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

You know, we were worried that in the UK, there's no anarchy on kids TV. When we grew up kids TV was very anarchic and it was about stuff that your parents would probably object to, if they got to object. And it's gotten very safe.

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.