Object Quotes
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See also Core English Vocabulary (O) List :: Top 1,000 UK English Words (#3) List :: Top 3,000 American English Words (#07) List-
Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.
Robin G. Collingwood
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Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.
Robin G. Collingwood
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A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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 perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.
Joseph Addison
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Joseph Addison
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A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Keywords: almost :: chair :: chippendale :: difficult :: easier :: famous :: is :: object :: skyscraper :: that :: very :: whySubject: Art QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.
Confucius
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love
Baruch Spinoza
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In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
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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.
Arnold Bennett
Keywords: all :: always :: and :: concentrate :: even :: going :: had :: have :: in :: is :: keep :: more :: never :: next :: no :: object :: on :: or :: served :: shall :: something :: the :: there :: time :: tomorrow :: until :: useful :: waiting :: we :: weekSubject: Procrastination Quotes :: Time QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends
Arabian Proverb
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Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.
Alfred Korzybski
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Alexander Pope
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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
George S. Patton
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Never fight an inanimate object.
P.J. O`Rourke
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The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul
G.K. Chesterton
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Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.
Ambrose Bierce
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It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Paul Gauguin
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The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
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The object of art is to give life a shape.
William Shakespeare
Subject: Art QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
George Shaw
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Oscar Wilde
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A good government implies two things: 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
James Madison
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A good government implies two things: 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
James Madison
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Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
Ernest Hemingway
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Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
Ernest Hemingway
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I was seen as an outsider in the beginning and then an object of great envy. All the national directors wanted to be international. They would come up to me and say, If I cast Michael Caine and Sean Connery, do you think this will make it?" There was this...
Mira Nair
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People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don`t have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
Candice Bergen
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I was embarrassed by the director, Blake Edwards, who looked at me and said, `what am I supposed to do with THAT?`. I was a little hurt to be referred to as an inanimate object at an audition. I was told by my agent that a number of big stars won`t work w...
James Cromwell
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