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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

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. — Walt Whitman

She touched his shoulder, very lightly, like a child fingering a forbidden object. — Ross Macdonald

The quality of beauty lies on
how beholder values an object. — Toba Beta

The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject. — Amiri Baraka

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

Every object and event must have a plausible chain of causality that leads to it. — S.F. Chapman

Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself. — E. O. Wilson

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one. — George Sand

The object of jihad is to bring the whole world under Islamic Law. — Bernard Lewis

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

All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn;
Object of my implacable disgust. — William Cowper

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

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it. — Boris Pasternak

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

I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom. — Samuel Goldwyn

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

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. — Lucian Freud

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

You're not an object. I don't want you to think that I own you."
"Why not? I'm yours. — Jay McLean

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

If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly. — Sean Lennon

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

I conceived at least one great love in my life, of which I was always the object. — Albert Camus

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

It's my object to be stared at like a dog that's just been shown a card trick. — Bill Hicks

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction. — Thomas Jefferson

I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy. — Eric Allman

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

That's the object of going to a gym, having fun. — Joe Gold

Within the reigning social order, the general public must remain an object of manipulation, not a participant in thought, debate, and decision. — Noam Chomsky

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

I want to be able to work a piece of wood into an object that contributes something beautiful and useful to everyday life ... — Sam Maloof

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

It has always been an ambition of mine to serve as an object lesson for others. — Patricia Briggs

The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one's interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you. — Iris Murdoch

An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which. — G. E. M. Anscombe

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. — Oscar Wilde

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

That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object. — Hosea Ballou

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

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing. — Rob Pike

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

A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.) — Virgil

My object is to mystify and entertain. I wouldn't deceive you for the world. — Howard Thurston

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

It is good practice to provide width and height measurements for every object element. — Anonymous

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

I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object. — Thomas Jefferson

Let the main object ... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more. — John Amos Comenius