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As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives. — Philibert Joseph Roux

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

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 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

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

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

Will Sumner was Jensen's college best friend, Dad's former intern, and the object of every one of my teenage fantasies. — Christina Lauren

I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately insignificant object. — Robertson Davies

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon — Oscar Wilde

Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing. — Sanford Meisner

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

You are to me an object so intensely desirable that the air I breathe in a room empty of you is unhealthy — John Keats

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

Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere. — Rupert Spira

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

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life. — Miuccia Prada

Then when [ISIS] moved into Iraq, the Sunni Muslims didn't object to their being there and about a third of the territory in Iraq was abandoned. — Jimmy Carter

The journalist, whose main duty is speed, is likely sometimes to get an advantage over the diplomatist whose main object is accuracy. — George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon Of Kedleston

I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more. — Tabitha Suzuma

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

The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings. — Eugene Delacroix

MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration. — Ambrose Bierce

The object in being on the spiritual path is not to have just a little influx of energy, but to be the energy itself - consciously. — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

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

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object. — Colin Greenwood

And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object. — Robertson Davies

To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible. — Tippi Hedren

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it. — Aristotle.

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object. — C.S. Lewis

The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object. — Samuel Smiles

There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

A man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole human horizon and the horizon of an object-glass. — George Eliot

A square object was visible at a greater distance than a round object of the same area. — Kim Stanley Robinson

The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated. — Simon Cowell

Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter. — Gilles Deleuze

In democratic society each citizen is habitually busy with the contemplation of a very petty object, which is himself. — Alexis De Tocqueville

In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant. — Thomas Jefferson

The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the work of photographing could go on forever. — Berenice Abbott

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world. — Robert Smithson

Women were considered the snare of the Devil, while at the same time the cult of the Virgin made one woman the central object of love and adoration. — Barbara W. Tuchman

The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. — Gore Vidal

The object of words is to conceal thoughts. — Adrian Barnes

It's one of those magical acts that is so poly-sensorial and culturally enriching that as a designer one is naturally drawn to the cult of the object — Ross Lovegrove

In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone. — Albert Renger-Patzsch

Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it. — Confucius

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word. — Willard Van Orman Quine

Today each of you is the object of the other's reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story. — Italo Calvino

My decision (for Christ) was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair. I was decided upon. — C.S. Lewis

Of course I want to, but I would look like a bad person if I didn't object at all. — Tarryn Fisher

Exposure to a two-year-old boy was probably the best possible object lesson in the dangers of motherhood, — Diana Gabaldon

Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world. — Ludwig Boltzmann

I don't object to the proliferation of the 'f-bomb' in screenplays because the adjective is vulgar but because it is unimaginative. — Ron Brackin

A devotee has no agenda of his own. For him, the object of devotion is everything. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

The object of religion is the imagination, that deep and inexhaustible font of our understanding and symbolizing our deepest possibilities. — Eugene Kennedy

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

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

It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object. — Thomas Paine

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

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

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

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

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

The object of art is to give life shape. — Jean Anouilh

Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice. — Georgette Heyer

All duties depend as regards the kind of obligation (not the object of their action) upon the one principle. — Immanuel Kant

The only object which ought to be enjoyed is the triune God, who is our highest good and our true happiness. — Augustine Of Hippo

Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God. — Joel Salatin

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

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

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

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

If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations. — Timothy Keller

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

My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure. — Adelaide Crapsey

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

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

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

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

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

A warm body sighed in the darkness inside the little bright object balanced elegantly in the orbit of the moon. — Ursula K. Le Guin

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