Object Quotes

Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a species of enthusiasm in their pursuit of it. They have kept one object in view amidst all the vicissitudes of time and torture.

The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.

If a man wants to objectify a woman, he will do it even if she’s clad from head to toe.

Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.

In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn’t tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.

When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body — it will all get conquered like this.

The object of love is to serve, not to win.

Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature.

A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.