Quotes with objects

Quotes 21 till 40 of 72.

  • Ashley Montagu Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Walter Benjamin He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Tryon Edwards High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Albert Einstein I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Albert Einstein I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Anne Enright I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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    Anne Enright
    Irish writer (1962 - )
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  • Socrates I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Busy Philipps I'm in the middle of my own 'Project Runway' challenge given to me by my daughter's preschool. All the parents have to make an outfit for their kids, for school pictures, made entirely out of recycled objects. I can not believe I have homework.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • John Ruskin In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Richard Whately In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Russell Baker Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
    Russell Baker
    American journalist (1925 - )
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  • James Fenimore Cooper It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Blaise Pascal It is natural for the mind to believe, and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Algernon H. Blackwood It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
    Algernon H. Blackwood
    English broadcasting narrator, journalist and writer (1869 - 1951)
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  • Erich Fromm Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • James Madison Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
    James Madison
    American statesman, President (1751 - 1836)
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  • Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.
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  • Robert Bresson My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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  • F. L. Lucan Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
    F. L. Lucan
    Roman epic poet (39 - 65)
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  • Robert Warshow Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.
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