Top 17 Object Constancy Quotes
#1. I never, till now, had a friend who could give me repose; all have disturbed me, and, whether for pleasure or pain, it was still disturbance. But peace overflows from your heart into mine.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#2. (Title: To the Moon)
Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,
And ever-changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#4. She could count three vessels - one small, one medium and one large as in the Goldilocks story - and
Neil D'Silva
#5. They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
Francis Bacon
#6. The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of man.
Jacob Bronowski
#7. You don't know if he's pissed or just laughing at you.
Graham McNamee
#8. The fact is, it was a big show. We were a part of that show. Everybody watches for different reasons. There were some people who were tuning in that day to see what was going on with other characters.
Matthew Ashford
#9. Grief is a killer, isn't it?" he said. "Brings you right up to the truth.
Nicole Mones
#10. Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#11. A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things.
[Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]
Horace
#12. While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.
Billy Collins
#13. That he was actually born into a giant fortune, all his life hadn't had any use for this giant fortune, had always been unhappy with this giant fortune, I thought. That his parents had been unable, as they say, to open his eyes, that they were the ones who depressed the child, I thought.
Thomas Bernhard
#14. His lips rise. "I usually dumb down around the intellectually deficient so I don't come off like a complete prick." I think he just called me stupid.
Krista Ritchie
#15. I've always been in a rush. Ever since I was a child I always thought that there was somewhere else I ought to be even though there was nowhere else I had to go.
Donal O'Callaghan
#16. And she would not hold back his limbs when his heart was gone to the woods, for it is ever the way of witches with any two things to care for the more mysterious of the two.
Lord Dunsany
#17. The pains and pleasures of the body, howsoever important to ourselves, are an indelicate subject of conversation
Edward Gibbon
