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Alien eyes watched the strange metal object as it floated upward. There was blood in the water. Their home had been invaded. They would respond. — Mira Grant

At first, I was grateful to be the object of such intense desire. Yet what's flattering in the first year can be suffocating in the eighth. — Padma Lakshmi

I liked Live and Let Die, where money was no object. — Julie Harris

If you don't know how to use an object properly, it is possible that you will use it for something other than the purpose it was intended for — Sunday Adelaja

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

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state. — Thomas Jefferson

What if every seemingly isolated object was actually just where the continuous wave of that object poked through into our world? — Reuben Heyday Margolin

She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things. — Diana Athill

What would you do if money was no object? — Alan Watts

Mimi was a human bulldozer, and when she met a seemingly immovable object, she just lowered her blade and revved her engine higher. — Stephen King

Here was a chimpanzee using a tool... That was object modification-- the crude beginning of tool making. — Jane Goodall

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

It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The unprecedented rise of the Christian Social Party ... was to assume the deepest significance for me as a classical object of study. — Adolf Hitler

More wine?" Tyrion asked him. "I should not object," Lord Janos said, holding out his cup. He was built like a keg, and had a similar capacity. — George R R Martin

The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search. — Ernest Dimnet

Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life. — Tippi Hedren

Eureka didn't voice her perverse enjoyment at dressing as an object with a second life when it was dead. — Lauren Kate

We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy. — Johann Heinrich Lambert

Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture. — Wassily Kandinsky

What the pen was doing for Rohit right now, the paper
mobile phone did for Prabhu. — Pankaj Suneja

But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules. — James Dashner

My fear wasn't some kind of rare artisanal object; it was just a mass-produced item, available on the shelves of any generic box store. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question. — Julius Lester

And I stood there and took it because I was an object. We were all objects to Marcus McCoy. — Shaun David Hutchinson

Perhaps being named "black" was just someone's name for being at the bottom, a human turned to object, object turned to pariah. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it. — Jacques Hadamard

She was jealous not of any particular woman but of the decrease of his love. Not having an object for her jealousy, she was on the lookout for it. — Leo Tolstoy

'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at. — Richard Eyre

But if the object was not to stay alive but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make? — George Orwell

As often happens with passionate people, he was mastered by anger but was still seeking an object on which to vent it. — Leo Tolstoy

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt. — Maimonides

When the American Spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different; Liberty, sir, was then the primary object. — Patrick Henry

It was as if God had become not only the object of my praise and thanksgiving but my creative partner as well. — David Brazzeal

My love is of a birth as rare
As 'tis, for object, strange and high;
It was begotten by Despair
Upon Impossibility. — Andrew Marvell

Going from the written, flat word to the three-dimensional object, that was one of the more enriching things that I've done. — James Sanborn

In Nature everything has a meaning; that is, every object is exactly adapted to the place it occupies, and to the purpose for which it was made. — Solomon Caesar Malan

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

You entered into a Socratic dialogue in order to change; the object of the exercise was to create a new, more authentic self. — Karen Armstrong

He had always known that he was the lover and she was the object of love. — Francoise Sagan

The releasing of attachment to object and certain beliefs was already indelibly written as a very necessary step in my human progress toward being. — Marlo Morgan

The society had a vast number of ceremonies and observances, but it had no history and no object; that was where it was so very aristocratic. — G.K. Chesterton

In no other place had I ever seen female purity celebrated by a 355-foot phallic object. But maybe that was me. — Anne Fortier

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object. — Isabella Rossellini

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

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

There was a child went forth every day,
And the first object he looked upon, that object he became ... — Walt Whitman

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

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

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

Shelley's love was deep, sincere, passionate, indeed everlasting-but it was always changing its object. — Paul Johnson

She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it. — Ayn Rand

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object. — Cindy Sherman

I was just wondering why you stabbed him. Not that I object. — Stephenie Meyer

I was his comfort object, and what he asked for, I did. — Annabel Joseph

Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding. — Sarah Fielding

Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof. — Mahatma Gandhi

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object. — William Wilberforce

Clothes became my attraction and obsession early. I wasn't so interested in dressing myself because I was not my object of desire. — Jean Paul Gaultier

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow. — Margaret Fuller

I was in love. With a two-dimensional object. A mute in love with a painting. Lovely. Just lovely. — Leanna Renee Hieber

For him (LBJ) food was not an indulgence but and intoxicant, an object he reached for to fill a gaping void, one he could never fill up. — Jonathan Darman

An object - any object - was worth whatever you could get somebody to pay for it. — Donna Tartt

To say this, however, is not to claim that it was the object of theoretical study. — Aristotle.

He wasn't constituted to hate himself subjectively, but he did hate the object he was in the world. — Jonathan Franzen

I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman. — Carine Roitfeld

Prophet was just happy to be out of any moving object, and insisted they walk there. They did so hand in hand. He — S.E. Jakes

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others. — Tacitus

The object was not to stay alive but to stay human. — Leah Wilson

It wasn't awful to be a man's sex object if you wanted to be, if it made you feel good, if everyone was happy in the end. — Lacey Alexander

What was the point of giving children freedom to experiment and fail, if one then turned it all into a tiresome object lesson? — Laura Lippman

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights. — James K. Polk

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

Reason was nowhere, time was an immovable object nailed high on the wall, except where the world kept shop. — Mae West

My way of viewing the talking filibuster was as a way of doing unanimous consent with your feet. You object by going down and talking. — Jeff Merkley