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I am, at this moment, what I have always been to him: an object of beauty. He has never loved me as a woman.
— Philippa Gregory
The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.
— Charles Darwin
The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.
— Simone Weil
The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.
— Alexander The Great
Lex's jaw dropped. She started to object, but the look Zara shot her could have silenced a pack of screech monkeys.
— Gina Damico
Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.
— E. O. Wilson
But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Under the vague dullness of the gray hours, dissatisfaction seeks a definite object and finds it in the privation of an untried good.
— George Eliot
Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
— Jasper Johns
What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.
— Miuccia Prada
When you play teams that are good defensively and teams that have been there with experience, the object is to keep the goals against down.
— Darren McCarty
Drink won his sword, meet with my hammer. That's more than my demon can object.
— George R R Martin
Hunger is not an object.
— Herta Muller
I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book.
— J.K. Rowling
The creative mind plays with the object it loves.
— C. G. Jung
Know thyself; this is the great object.
— Seneca The Younger
MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.
— Ambrose Bierce
What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.
— Margaret Deland
Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt.
— Anne Hathaway
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
— Thomas Jefferson
Object to that as well. The judge said,
— James Patterson
In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home.
— George Carlin
Consciousness is always drawn to the most distracting object: the bumped toe, the loud noise, or the hurting heart.
— Michael A. Singer
A warm body sighed in the darkness inside the little bright object balanced elegantly in the orbit of the moon.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Make God's glory your object in life; live in his sight; dwell close to him; seek for fellowship with him; and thou hast "godliness";
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Gwendolen would not have liked to be an object of disgust to this husband whom she hated: she liked all disgust to be on her side.
— George Eliot
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.
— Joel Salatin
By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.
— William Stanley Jevons
That we are both right. One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it.
— Michael Sullivan
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
— Thomas Jefferson
Don't object so much, you'll live longer.
— Michael Nesmith
The truth is that even if resentment is triggered by an external object, it is not located anywhere else but in our mind.
— Matthieu Ricard
I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history.
— Henry Petroski
If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
— Timothy Keller
Meditate. Look at the candle flame - or whatever object you have chosen to gaze upon - with intensity.
— Frederick Lenz
There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself.
— Rumi
Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.
— Georgette Heyer
With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.
— George Michael
It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.
— Flannery O'Connor
Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.
— Fernand Leger
It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.
— Thomas Paine
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
— Karl G. Maeser
The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.
— George Eliot
To Alderaan we fly on course direct, And to this feast of death I'll not object. [Exit Darth Vader.
— Ian Doescher
The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
We know that madness belongs to love,what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.
— Ann Radcliffe
An object is chiral if it cannot be brought into congruence with its mirror image by translation and rotation.
— Vladimir Prelog
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
— Marcus Aurelius
To perceive the aura of an object we look at means to invest it with the ability to look at us in return.
— Walter Benjamin
God created a universe where each object is dependent on the other. Nobody is independent. At least, human beings are not.
— Girdhar Joshi
I still like paper books. Like, book is a flammable object. After you read it, you could use it to get warm. Or it could become a pile of napkins.
— Demetri Martin
All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which.
— G. E. M. Anscombe
The object of art is to give life shape.
— Jean Anouilh
Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object.
— Anne Sullivan Macy
But, surely, if the mind is too long directed to one object only, it will get stiff and rigid, and unable to take in many interests.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.
— Henry David Thoreau
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
— Paul Cezanne
I am not without an object in life, but I feel lonely and deserted.
— Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger
A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.
— Howard Hodgkin
Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.
— Margaret Thatcher
Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.
— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
The object of religion is the imagination, that deep and inexhaustible font of our understanding and symbolizing our deepest possibilities.
— Eugene Kennedy
I object to conscription the way a lobster objects to boiling water: it may be his finest hour but it's not his choice.
— Robert A. Heinlein
With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.
— James Turrell
Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.
— James Madison
The spiritual commitment is to make every situation an object of devotional connection.
— Marianne Williamson
People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.
— Jaron Lanier
