Object Quotations | Page 4

Everyone looked at him like he was their ... savior, ... everywhere he went he was an object of admiration and adoration -- and yet he couldn't muffle the growing discontent, the helplessness he felt at his inability to control not so much the world around him as his private world, the inner world that was revealed to no one but him.

Each object had to transcend the outcome of the equation of its form and function by displaying meaning -- to an individual, to a community, to the world at large -- and last but not least, ingenious beauty.

The object has not been co-operative at all. It is an incredibly nasty place to land,

The object is jobs, Apple would be in Coyote Valley instead of Cupertino.

The object is only a million years old. If the planet formed within the million years that it took between star formation and when we're seeing it now, that probably makes it the youngest planet we have ever seen.

The object is to keep on playing, and we will do that. We struggled tonight, but we did enough things right to come out with a win.

The object is to learn how to deaden the ball. We're not so much concerned with manipulating it line to line as much as we are just killing the ball.

The object is to standardize the test across the state, and the easiest way for the state to do that is to set guidelines for what kids can and can't do. It's as though you had all the fourth-graders in the state in the same room, taking the same test.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

The object of the game is to maintain healthy or low levels of cholesterol in your heart.

The object of the game is to out-perform our peers.

The object of the game is to score runs and reach the total set by the other team ... or even better it.

The object of the law of value is to elucidate the actual exchange relations of commodities.

The object of the patrol method is not so much having the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.

The object of this first trip is to listen to the parties, collect impressions,

The object of (Tuesday's) demonstration is repealing the law. There needs to be a lot of us, and we must go for the long haul since the parliamentary debate will take time.

The object was lodged in the window and cracked it.

The object was to get to (Allen) early and he kind of got rattled a little bit.

It's not gonna knock your socks off, and it certainly won't be the brightest object in the sky, but it'll be easily observable with the naked eye .

Eventually you get to the point where you won't be able to grip anything. Your ability to grip an object depends very much on the thumb the thumb is the most powerful of the digits, so when movement of the thumb becomes painful you can't hold on to things.

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.

It's just the best way to start your day. People who surf, they know the object is to have fun. You work hard, but you work hard to have fun.

it's a sex object if you're pretty and no love or love and no sex if you're fat

To have had a religious upbringing at least assures that in your own mind you are a Jew first, and the object of other people's dislike second

We simply object to any attempt by the Socialists to sneak into the transition government some of the party's most heavily compromised people.

We simply thought that the technology was not ready and was in need of additional work toward better and more complete integration with the document object model and with HTML.

What the FAA says is that within a 500-foot radius of that wind sensor, the maximum object height has to be 15 feet below that wind sensor.

We will object if the economy is being looted. The question is what type of reforms. If the reforms are pro-people, we are pro-reform. If the reforms are anti-people, we are anti-reform.

It's a deep, irregular cut and it was cut by some sharp, jagged object ... a jagged piece of glass or a knife. My opinion is it was most likely broken glass.

If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search.I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.

I don't object because the whole purpose of creating them in gymnastics was to save teams. It gives the opportunity to girls who otherwise would not have a team to be a part of.

If formless meditation is difficult, then think of my form just as you see it here. With such meditation, the difference between subject and object is lost and the mind dissolves in unity.

I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking. But I strongly object when they start shaking them to make sure they are still going.

I do not object to retouching, dodging. or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.

Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought; it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.

The detainees received injuries described as bruises and contusions caused by striking with a closed and open hand, kicking, and hitting with an object described as a broomstick.

The light of all lights, He is said to be beyond darkness. He is the knowledge, the object of knowledge, and seated in the hearts of all beings, He is to be realized by the knowledge.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men

We can look upon a road from two different points of view. One regards it as dividing us from the object of desire; in that case we count every step of our journey over it as something attained by force in the face of obstruction. The other sees it a

My object in living is to uniteMy avocation and my vocationAs my two eyes make one in sight

It is easy to fly into a passion - anybody can do that - but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time with the right object and in the right way - that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it

Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness

You don't object to an aged parent, I hope?

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheel'd universe.

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. The Picture of Dorian Gray

Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.

In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge.

The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

The object of education is to give man the unity of truth. Formerly, when life was simple, all the different elements of man were in complete harmony. But when there came the separation of the intellect from the spiritual and the physical, the school

The object of our lives is won. Henceforth let us wear it silently. My lips are closed upon the past from this hour. I forgive you your part in to-morrow's wickedness. May God forgive my own!

As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.