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The island of Bali is littered with prayers. Sacred words, yes, but also sacred objects. — Jeremy Grimshaw

The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to. — Studs Terkel

Ah! you wish us to be only objects of sensuality? All right; by the aid of sensuality we will bend you beneath our yoke,' say the woman. — Leo Tolstoy

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life. — Mike Mills

The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered. — Alexander The Great

Unknown objects are operating under intelligent control ... It is imperative that we learn where UFOs come from and what their purpose is ... — Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter

I want industrial design to be a public subject. I want people to love objects the way they love clothing. — Karim Rashid

For me, all the materials and objects I employ come from a specific space that's very personal. — Rashid Johnson

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. — Pablo Picasso

I'm interested in how a lot of people pull objects together to form an environment that we feel reflects ourselves or makes us feel comfortable. — Matt Smith

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. — Thomas Carlyle

Just Detach From False Mental Objects And Be Enlightened To Being-As-Is — Baizhang Huaihai

Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen. — Wayne Thiebaud

There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination. — William S. Burroughs

The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, feeds upon itself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories
those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost — Russell Baker

With composition, parts can't be shared with other objects. The life of the part is completely within the life span of the whole. — Michael Jesse Chonoles

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation. — Samuel Alexander

Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light. — Edwin Percy Whipple

I'm more materialistic about myself than I am about objects — Patti Smith

Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions. — Gloria Steinem

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects. — Raoul Vaneigem

Beauty is an inner phenomenon. Beauty is not in objects, not in people, not even in the eyes of the beholder. It lies in the heart of every person — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Know thyself; this is the great object. — Seneca The Younger

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects. — Piet Mondrian

It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us. - Tilopa — Lama Surya Das

Pay close attention to objects, events and natural phenomenon that would otherwise get chewed up in the daily grind. — Kathleen Norris

Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy. — John Herschel

The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession. — Thorstein Veblen

I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics. — Karen Marie Moning

Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things. — William H Gass

Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes? — Pope Paul VI

Their object is disunion. — Andrew Jackson

I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand — Andrew Solomon

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

God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others. — Paul David Tripp

Thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged. — Henri Poincare

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value? — Bernard Berenson

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. — Johannes Stark

With magic almost anything was possible; all objects had energy, and energy could be manipulated. — Stacia Kane

I wouldn't be comfortable, but at least I'd have marginal protection against pointy steel objects that went stab in the night. — Lisa Shearin

The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed. — James Madison

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. — T. S. Eliot

Before parting that night we agreed that the objects of life were to produce good people and good books. — Virginia Woolf

A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc. — Francesca Woodman

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger. — Rumi

Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them. — Cassandra Clare

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects. — William Shenstone

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. — Tryon Edwards

If there is anyone present here today who objects to this union, please take it up with the two armed federal agents who are getting hitched. — Abigail Roux

Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong. — Julia Cameron

Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful we project meaning onto it in daily life. — Karim Rashid

When you were in least of need, people or objects turned up but when you were in a fraught situation, you would never find them. — Deepika Kumaaraguru

Do not underestimate objects. — David Foster Wallace

All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Objects are better than text at conveying narrative — Neil MacGregor

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se. — Charles Eames

There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects. — William Hazlitt

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

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

True beings are lived in the present, the life of objects is lived in the past. — Martin Buber

For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere). — Bill Bryson

We see no objects in our universe that could become wormholes as they age. — Kip Thorne

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition. — William Blake

Renunciation of objects, without the renunciation of desires, is short-lived, however hard you may try. — Mahatma Gandhi

Preservation of human life generally outweighs some stupid code about returning objects on time. — Stephen Bier Jr.

The pervasion of image has so deeply altered our very relationships to ourselves that even men have become objects
if never erotic objects. — Shulamith Firestone

Even the sparrows on the house-tops are objects of suspicion. — Emmuska Orczy

Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough. — Jeffrey Eugenides

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts. — Patricia Briggs

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects. — Wislawa Szymborska

There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself. — Rumi

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

Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that. — Andy Warhol

In the case of archery, the hitter and the hit are no longer two opposing objects, but are one reality. — Eugen Herrigel

In real life, that's how we're moving around. We look at things while we're walking and moving and turning around. We stare at objects in the world. — Brendan Iribe

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

For a house to be successful, the objects in it must communicate with one another, respond to and balance one another — Andree Putman

Don't object so much, you'll live longer. — Michael Nesmith

The thought of his mind wandering while long sharp objects were trying to knock him off his horse alarmed me. — Courtney Cole

Kill every dog, every cat, she said slowly. Kill every mouse, every bird. Kill every fish. Anyone objects, kill them too. — George Saunders

Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

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

We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire. — Saul Bellow

Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible. — Jeanette Winterson

I believe there are unidentified flying objects, I'm just not sure who's driving. — Peter Jennings

Everyday objects shriek aloud. — Rene Magritte

The only names of objects which connote nothing are proper names; and these have, strictly speaking, no signification. — John Stuart Mill

Inanimate objects were often so much nicer than people. — Barbara Pym

When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity. — Oliver Goldsmith

Give the incantation, and b) describe the wand movement required to make objects fly. . . — J.K. Rowling

Intangible assets are real, identifiable assets that are not physical objects. — Mike Piper

God Almighty has set before me two Great Objects: the supression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners. — William Wilberforce

The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects. — Elie Wiesel

The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Objects always meet your obsession. Once you have an obsession, you step on it at every corner. — Sophie Calle