Object Quotes

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Baruch Spinoza

LoveHappinessQualityObjectWhich

In America, business is the first object in view at all times, and rightly it should be so.

John James Audubon

BusinessViewAmericaFirstObject

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Simone de Beauvoir

BeingDifferentMakePassiveObject

I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object.

Martin Puryear

SpiritMoreWholeMakeThanObject

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

Christian Nestell Bovee

WorshipInvisibleSeenHeObject

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

Phil Mickelson

WinGentlemanGolfPlayJustObject

To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible.

Tippi Hedren

SomeoneObsessionHorribleObject

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

Montesquieu

WarVictoryPreservationObject

When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.

Jami Attenberg

YouKnowBecomeForceCannotObject

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.

Henry Charles Carey

PowerMenExerciseProtectionObject

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

Friedrich August von Hayek

SocietyFreeWishObjectPreserve

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Alexander Pope

WorkArtPriceLeftBeenObject

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

TruthAlonePersuasionObject

The power of 'Madame Bovary' stems from Flaubert's determination to render each object of his scrutiny exactly as it looks, or sounds or smells or feels or tastes.

Kathryn Harrison

DeterminationPowerLooksObjectHis

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

Washington Allston

GreatMindNeverObjectDistinction

Never fight an inanimate object.

P. J. O'Rourke

FunnyFightNeverObjectInanimate

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Gaston Bachelard

ImaginationAestheticBooksObject

The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

Barbara W. Tuchman

AttentionHoldWriterObjectShould

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