Object Quotes

• To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Money
  • Debt
  • Payment

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

  

  Confucius
  • Learn
  • Object
  • Apprehensive

• Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and further deconstructs this by negating the presence of a representative objective viewer.

  

  Arnold Aronson
  • Object
  • Spectator
  • Postmodernism

• There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object.

  

  Charlotte Dacre
  • Wish
  • Resist
  • Accomplishes

• The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.

  

  Sara Coleridge
  • Attention
  • Desire
  • Public

• An object is chiral if it cannot be brought into congruence with its mirror image by translation and rotation.

  

  Vladimir Prelog
  • Mirror
  • Translation
  • Rotation

• The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

  

  Aristotle
  • Wishes
  • Suffer
  • Hatred

• There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Man
  • Satisfaction
  • Object

• We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • War
  • Object

• The object of our being placed upon this earth is that we may work out an exaltation, that we may prepare ourselves to go back and dwell with our Heavenly Father; and our Father, knowing the faults and failings of men has given us certain commandments to obey, and if we will examine those requirements and the things that devolve upon us we will find that they are all for our individual benefit and advancement. The school of life in which we are placed and the lessons that are given to us by our Father will make of us exactly what He desires, so that we may be prepared to dwell with Him.

  

  Heber J. Grant
  • Earth
  • Heavenly Father
  • Exaltation

• Whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object.

  

  Darius I
  • Same
  • Object
  • Whether

• Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object.... this isn't so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change their state are objects. And then there are things that are not objects. A binary search is not an object. It is an algorithm.

  

  Alexander Stepanov
  • Things
  • Object
  • Algorithm

• Is not about creating an object. It is about creating a perspective.

  

  Albert Paley
  • Perspective
  • Creating
  • Object

• If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Object

• I believe that we can accomplish any object that we make up our minds to, and no boy or girl ought to sit down and say, because they cannot do as well as somebody else, that they will not do anything. God has given to some people ten talents; to others, he has given one; but they who improve the one talent will live to see the day when they will far outshine those who have ten talents but fail to improve them.

  

  Heber J. Grant
  • People
  • God
  • Girl

• Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Happiness
  • Talent
  • Object

• Life in the ultimate analysis has taught me one enduring lesson. The subject should always disappear in the object.

  

  Aga Khan III
  • Disappear
  • Subject
  • Object

• ..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Mind
  • Newspapers
  • Bear

• 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
  • Know
  • Wishes
  • Sake

• As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.

  

  Akiva Goldsman
  • Relationship
  • Object
  • Frivolous

• Know thyself; this is the great object.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Know
  • Object

• When I was in college I thought of making up a fictive artist and giving him a name and a body of work. Eventually I came around to the idea of using my own name, which had this strange distancing effect, similar to using a found object. Being a Turk was quite interesting because in a sense it was like being a foreigner.

  

  Gavin Turk
  • Work
  • Artist
  • Object

• To find health should be the object of the doctor. Any one can find disease.

  

  Andrew Taylor Still
  • Health
  • Disease
  • Doctor

• However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process.

  

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum
  • Process
  • Reverse
  • Fragments

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