Objects Quotes
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We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery - by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press - their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.
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It is evident that the right of acquiring and possessing property, and having it protected, is one of the natural, inherent, and unalienable rights of man. Men have a sense of property: Property is necessary to their subsistence, and correspondent to their natural wants and desires; its security was one of the objects, that induced them to unite in society. No man would become a member of a community, in which he could not enjoy the fruits of his honest labour and industry.
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I think women have always been considered objects, especially in the genre of westerns.
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By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.
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The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
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When scandals proliferate, human beings become so obsessed with their rivals that they lose sight of the objects for which they compete and begin to focus angrily on one another.
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What makes worship amazing is the object of our worship.
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It is impossible to unite Christ and Baal -- their spirits cannot unite, their objects and purposes are entirely different; the one leads to eternal life and exaltation, the other to death and final destruction.
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The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.
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To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.
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Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
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“The only value objects have is what people are willing to pay to own them.”
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The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.
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Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being.
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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.
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The sabbath is God's special present to the working man, and one of its chief objects is to prolong his life, and preserve efficient his working tone. The savings bank of human existence is the weekly sabbath.
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All knowledge is oriented toward some object and is influenced in its approach by the nature of the object with which it is pre-occupied. But the mode of approach to the object to be known is dependent upon the nature of the knower.
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"Is Art worth dying for?" Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.
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And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.
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How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself...?
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I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.
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No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
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Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
