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Quotes About Object

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
~ Walt Whitman
In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.
~ Jean Paul Gaultier
The first one was quite cheap, but that was expensive for us. For my folks to buy on the Never Never. It was quite, you know, a rare object to have and I gained quite a lot of status by having this.
~ Eric Clapton
Because of this high status of the object in our culture, something has to be a thing. Live efforts are almost marginal. I think dance, for example, is just as much a thing, and I want for it to have the same status. I don't want it to be the thing that comes in the evening and is, like, the happy music.
~ Tino Sehgal
Obsidian was caused by volcanoes, an eruption of steam and gas so furious that it melted the earth itself into this hard, shiny object.
~ Kathi Appelt
The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.
~ Joyce Cary
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The happiness and prosperity of our citizens is the only legitimate object of government.
~ Thomas Jefferson
So you'll never guess who I heard from," said Kelly. "Who would that be?" "Not 'whom'?" asked Kelly, her face momentarily clouded by doubt. "No, my dear. It's a subject, not an object. At least in my question.
~ Thomas Mallon
It is the object only of war that makes it honorable. And if there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
~ Thomas Paine
Those who knew Benjaman Franklin will recollect, that his mind was ever young; his temper ever serene; science, that never grows grey, was always his mistress. He was never without an object; for when we cease to have an object we become like an invalid in an hospital waiting for death.
~ Thomas Paine
Love can forbear, and Love can forgive...but Love can never be reconciled to an unlovely object... He can never therefore be reconciled to your sin, because sin itself is incapable of being altered; but He may be reconciled to your person because that may be restored and Loved.
~ Thomas Traherne
When you're the object of everyone's affection, make no mistake about it: you are an object. People don't have any interest in loving you for you. Their love for you is for who they think you are.
~ Jennette McCurdy
Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.
~ Maya Angelou
An object should elicit desire, and often it happens not because people need it but because they love it.
~ Marcel Wanders
I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.
~ Nolan Bushnell
The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose of the activity is an aesthetic response. The museum is actually about the object that lets you get into somebody else's life.
~ Neil MacGregor
And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.
~ Friedrich Schleiermacher
There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
~ Rachel Cusk
I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.
~ Meg Tilly
I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.
~ Courtney Love
In America, business is the first object in view at all times, and rightly it should be so.
~ John James Audubon
What all emotions have in common, and what distinguishes them from bodily appetites, is a focus on an object and a view of that object as salient for one's life.
~ Martha Nussbaum
It's incredibly hypocritical of Eddie to object to filming around my children, especially given how public he lives his life.
~ Brandi Glanville