Top 100 An Object Quotes
#1. If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as seems the case, they deserve to be called intelligent; for they act in nearly the same manner as would man under similar circumstances.
Charles Darwin
#2. Human beings place upon an object, or a person, this responsibility of being the obstacle when the obstacle lies always within one's self.
Anais Nin
#3. What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.
Miuccia Prada
#4. I'm not saying that I've cheated, being in an intense love with somebody while also feeling the pulls of being a young man, especially being an object of attention.
Penn Dayton Badgley
#5. Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.
Jose Rizal
#6. 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
#7. I've probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it's so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.
Biz Stone
#8. I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history.
Henry Petroski
#9. I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.
Bijou Phillips
#10. Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#11. Money should never be an object of love for people.
Sunday Adelaja
#12. I want to be able to work a piece of wood into an object that contributes something beautiful and useful to everyday life ...
Sam Maloof
#13. To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
Simone De Beauvoir
#14. We emphasize the transcendent worth of the human person. We insist that the human person must never be treated as an object; he must always be considered the subject. That is the basis for our teaching, the absolute standard.
Pope John Paul II
#15. When you begin to see that this assignment of extreme virtue or evil to a person or object is what makes them an object of lust or hatred, the emotion built on that exaggeration backs off; we
Dalai Lama XIV
#16. God cannot be an object. It is deepest depth of your own being. How can you see it.
Rajneesh
#17. Murana is the name of the mask I have designed for Venini: a volume to wear for filtering the reality through the glass of its surfaces, a face without sexual or racial connotations able to represent every kind of humanity, a soul for an object that could be casually perceived as a vase ...
Fabio Novembre
#18. This privilege, which he alone possesses, of being a sovereign and unique subject amidst a universe of objects, is what he shares with all his fellow-men. In turn an object for others, he is nothing more than an individual in the collectivity on which he depends.
Simone De Beauvoir
#19. You take anything you fear and cannot understand and make it an object of hate. So much easier to hate and destroy than to seek to understand.
Mainak Dhar
#20. Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
Fernand Leger
#21. I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.
Andy Goldsworthy
#22. [T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf
felt akin to an instance of religious grace.
Jonathan Franzen
#23. She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.
Jane Austen
#24. Love requires an Object
But this varies so much
Almost, I imagine
anything will do:
When I was a child I
Loved a pumping engine
Thought it every bit as
Beautiful as you
Wystan H. Auden,
#25. It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou relationship. God comes and goes in man's soul. And men come and go in each other's souls. Sometimes they come and go in each other's beds, too.
Saul Bellow
#26. I don't want to be the ingenue anymore. It's nice to be glamorous, but I don't want to always be an object of desire. Because it doesn't last.
Scarlett Johansson
#27. Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
Paul Cezanne
#28. Quantum mechanics extends this relativity in a radical way: all variable aspects of an object exist only in relation to other objects. It is only in interactions that nature draws the world.
Carlo Rovelli
#29. An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
Isaac Newton
#30. As a man is, so is his God; therefore God was so often an object of mockery.
[Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott,
Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#31. Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Elly Kleinman's Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.
Marianne Williamson
#32. The Divine glory is an object only worthy of attention; and to display his holy character, was the design of God in creation' as there were no after beings existing antecedent therto, to attract the mind of Jehovah; and we are sure that God is pursing the same thing still, and always will.
Lemuel Haynes
#33. If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.
Baruch Spinoza
#34. Sit down, keep your back straight, relax and have an object on which to concentrate; you might use a candle flame, a brightly colored rock, a yantra, which is a geometrical designed specifically for the practice of concentration.
Frederick Lenz
#35. We sense that the human body is a precious thing, worthy of our reverence. It is not a tool, not an object of consumption like a steak or a keg of beer, not an animate provider of pleasure. It is the outward expression of a profound mystery, that of another human being.
Anthony Esolen
#36. Whereas the complexity of an object measures how complicated it is to describe, its information content measures the extent to which it describes the rest of the world. In other words, information is a measure of how much meaning complexity has.
Max Tegmark
#37. People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.
Henry Ward Beecher
#38. The photograph ... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.
Robert Heinecken
#39. She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her
she was only an Object of Contempt
Jane Austen
#40. How do you describe that we are alive, but not a an object from a picture. What makes you to think that you are not an image?
Deyth Banger
#41. When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says "Do this", or "Do not do this", and this state of the ego-substance is what is called will
Swami Vivekananda
#42. Change the attitude toward errors. Think of an object's user as attempting to do a task, getting there by imperfect approximations. Don't think of the user as making errors; think of the actions as approximations of what is desired.
Donald A. Norman
#43. The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.
Edmund Burke
#44. I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#45. It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism.
Thomas De Quincey
#46. Pardon, gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that have dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object.
William Shakespeare
#47. Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me.
Jay Neugeboren
#48. If you borrowed the very moonbeams for your head-dress, if you were a hundred times more beautiful than my fancy can paint, you would be as nothing to me, - less than nothing, because an object of aversion.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#49. A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
Langston Hughes
#50. I am not a woman, I am a thing. An object, a servant for their needs. Sex is a tool.
Jasinda Wilder
#51. As often happens with passionate people, he was mastered by anger but was still seeking an object on which to vent it.
Leo Tolstoy
#52. Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
Sharon Salzberg
#53. How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself ... ?
Dalma Heyn
#54. It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem signifies that the underlying quality is being transformed into determinate distinctions of terms and relations or has become an object of articulate thought.
John Dewey
#55. The spiritual commitment is to make every situation an object of devotional connection.
Marianne Williamson
#56. To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.
William Sloane Coffin
#57. You may think of me as an object of desire and I'm going to tell you that I can be in front of you naked and not be erotic.
Emmanuelle Beart
#58. There may be room in government service for the altruist and the iconoclast, but I have yet to see one who was not treated as an oddity at best and at worst an object of suspicion and fear.
James Lee Burke
#59. 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.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#60. If God were an object to the bird, he would be a winged being[.]
Ludwig Feuerbach
#61. I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.
George Sand
#62. A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife's bed is a cause of the gravest concern.
Winston S. Churchill
#63. The edge of a black hole, the event horizon, is a boundary that marks the point of no return. Once an object crosses the event horizon, it cannot escape and will be ripped to pieces, atom by atom.
Kevin McCarthy
#64. Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.
Jerry Saltz
#65. Perception of an object costs
Precise the Object's loss -
Emily Dickinson
#66. Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.
Brian Eno
#68. In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view; the vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
Plotinus
#69. Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
Georges Braque
#70. Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.
Andre Bazin
#71. You cannot create a thing-not a thought, an object, an event-no experience of any kind-which is outside of God's plan. For God's plan is for you to create anything-everything-whatever you want.
Neale Donald Walsch
#72. You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.
Elias Canetti
#73. In film schools of the future, professors will teach 'Tammy' as an object lesson in Making Everything Go Wrong.
Richard Corliss
#74. But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.
William Carlos Williams
#75. The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.
Jean Piaget
#76. A woman may be looked upon as an object for sexual satisfaction but her multifarious roles and diversified approaches make her a complex being which man has not been able to understand.
Amit Abraham
#77. Drop the mind and the divine. God is not an object, it is a merger. The mind resists a merger, the mind is against surrender; the mind is very cunning and calculating.
Rajneesh
#78. When you see an object, it seems that you see it as an entire thing first, and only afterwards do its details follow on. But for people with autism, the details jump straight out at us first of all, and then only gradually, detail by detail, does the whole image float up into focus.
Naoki Higashida
#79. More than any expert Irene had met, Mr. Simms mastered the intricacies of dealing in art. He understood an object's worth, not solely its dollar value but how that value could be manipulated into emotional currency.
Kim Fay
#80. INERTIA: Unless an object is acted on by friction from an outside force, it will spiral through space, in the same direction at the same speed - indefinitely!
Karen Russell
#81. You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.
Melissa Bank
#82. Beautiful girls are not a decoration, arm candy, an object. They are, whether they know it or not, the very essence of our humanity.
Chloe Thurlow
#83. Sit in front of an object of concentration with the eyes open. Focus on a candle flame, or a yantra, a little dot, something small. Just look at it. Focus on it until there is nothing else in your mind. This develops willpower.
Frederick Lenz
#84. A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth. Its warped space whirls around the central singularity like air in a tornado.
Kip Thorne
#85. The exact orbit of Earth is controlled by the Sun's mass and the mass of all remaining planets. An object's mass and its distance is all we need to know to completely determine the effects of its gravity on Earth.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#86. You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
Dan Jenkins
#87. On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of a tree seen in the clear water under the boat was the only evidence of its existence; though a few hours ago it had formed so prominent an object.
George Grey
#88. I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it appears to me the doing what little we can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue.
Charles Darwin
#89. The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist.
Philip K. Dick
#90. Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.
Fernand Leger
#91. Anger is the ultimate troublemaker. I feel you can express a strong disapproval or dislike of an object without losing your temper.
Dalai Lama
#92. It is only God himself who brings Job joy in the end. And, when all is done, the mystery remains. God stands revealed in his hiddenness, an object of terror, adoration and love. And Job stands before him 'like a man' (38:3; 40:7), trusting and satisfied.
Francis I. Andersen
#93. Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don't actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn't the object?
Rainbow Rowell
#95. Man is pre-eminently a creative animal, predestined to strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering - that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#96. Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.
Alain De Botton
#97. The Nobel prize is unquestionably the most famous prize in the world, and very often, the prize is an object of prestige not only for a person but also for a research center, a country, or for a particular area of interest.
Klaus Von Klitzing
#98. PHP as an object oriented programming language should be judged by how well it does the job, not on a preconceived notion of what a scripting language should or shouldn't do.
Peter Lavin
#99. On one hand, to be able to go from one direction in the sky to study such an object to another direction to study another object, and on the other hand to be able to maintain accurately the position in space.
Claude Nicollier
#100. Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it.
Charles Elachi
