Quotes About Object

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.

All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.

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

I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.

In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home.

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

Inspiration is being motivated by a person or idea. Motivation is being inspired by an object. When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honorable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.

People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.

A revelação do receio dá ideias a quem atemoriza ou a quem pode atemorizar, a prevenção perante o que não aconteceu atrai o acontecimento, as suspeitas decidem o que ainda estava por resolver e desencadeiam-no, a apreensão e a expectativa obrigam a preencher os vazios que criam e vão aprofundando, algo tem de acontecer se queremos que o medo se dissipe, e o melhor é concretizar o objecto do medo.

The unconscious compulsion to enhance one's identity through association with an object is built into the very structure of the egoic mind.

The unconscious compulsion to enhance one's identity through association with an object is built into the very structure of the egoic mind.

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness.

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 . However, he attempted it.

Their united reigns are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.

It was the aim of the one to disguise, and the object of the other to display, the unbounded power which the emperors possessed over the Roman world.

Bigotry and national aversion are powerful magnifiers of every object of dispute;

The thing or person you trust in is actually the object of your worship. Look

I believe the British government forms the best model the world ever produced…. This government has for its object public strength and individual security.

A good government implies two things: first, fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained.

Here, then, are three sources of vague and incorrect definitions: indistinctness of the object, imperfection of the organ of conception, inadequateness of the vehicle of ideas. Any one of these must produce a certain degree of obscurity.

In order to lift a certain object from the ground, we have to use energy. But then to sustain it at that level, we have to keep on adding energy, or otherwise, the object falls to the ground. It's exactly the same thing with the sound.