Quotations
Quotes:
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
View quotes by Simone De Beauvoir
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
View quotes by Elizabeth Bowen
Every beloved object is the centre of a paradise.
View quotes by Novalis
I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
View quotes by Samuel Goldwyn
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his
View quotes by George Patton
The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
View quotes by Thomas Babington
We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
View quotes by Thomas Carlyle
Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.
View quotes by Margaret Thatcher
Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.
View quotes by Washington Allston
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
View quotes by Karl Marx
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives
View quotes by Robert Hutchins
The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions
View quotes by Bishop Creighton
The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
View quotes by Robert Brault
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
View quotes by Pliny The Younger
An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.
View quotes by Queen Victoria
There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.
View quotes by Sydney Smith
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
View quotes by Charles Kettering
Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creatures.
View quotes by Donald Davidson
The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search
View quotes by Ernest Dimnet
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
View quotes by Benedict Spinoza
