Quotes with object

  • It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
  • The first three men in the world were a gardener, a ploughman, and a grazier; and if any man object that the second of these was a murderer, I desire he would consider that as soon as he was so, he quitted our profession and turned builder.
  • How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty,
  • My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.
  • Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be.
  • By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
  • We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.
  • Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.
  • But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.
  • Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.
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  • Confucius Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Mandell Creighton The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
    Mandell Creighton
    British historian and bishop (1843 - 1901)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Baruch Spinoza All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Edmund Burke He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Charles Lamb How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty,
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Man Ray It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
    Man Ray
    American visual artist (1890 - 1976)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • B. R. Ambedkar One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales...
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Philip Roth A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ben Hecht A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • William Hazlitt A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Marcel Proust A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Albert Pike Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Joseph Addison Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Joel Hawes Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
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