Object Lesson Quotes

#1. When I was a teenager, the biggest heartthrob was Tab Hunter. He was in every movie out of Warner Bros. until he was exposed as gay, and his career faded. That was an object lesson. I knew I must protect my sexual orientation.

George Takei

#2. Our visions begin with our desires.

Audre Lorde

#3. He was a good fellow, but his rejoicing at the one little part, in which he was officially interested, of so great a tragedy, was an object-lesson in the limitations of sympathetic understanding. He

Bram Stoker

#4. We're trapped in linguistic constructs ... all that is is metaphor.

Robert Anton Wilson

#5. Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers, an object lesson in the foul contingency of life: the talkative fellow-traveller, the possibility of children.

Iris Murdoch

#6. 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 Bernard Shaw

#7. He adores you, you know. You're very lucky to have a brother like that."
I fall into step with her. "Yeah, right, I'm the luckiest guy in the universe." I heave a sigh. "But in my next life I'd prefer a puppy, okay?

Bart Yates

#8. She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things.

Diana Athill

#9. The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. We are all fundamentally equal souls, and if you make a zillion dollars, you're not any better than anybody else spiritually. You're still an equal soul.

David Brooks

#12. In an amusement park, you can go on a roller coaster that carries you up and down, or you can go on another kind of ride that whirls you around in a circle. Similarly, there are different sorts of entertaining experiences in the theater.

Wallace Shawn

#13. It has always been an ambition of mine to serve as an object lesson for others.

Patricia Briggs

#14. Bill eventually became Mr Tottenham Hotspur, and produced such a dazzling team at White Hart Lane that they won the double and played the game in a way that was an object lesson to everybody.

Brian Clough

#15. The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

Mary Antin

#16. A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.

Jayne Mansfield

#17. You must be accommodating with your teacher. You must have a sense of humor about your teacher and the impossible things they ask you to do.

Frederick Lenz

#18. Gratitude leads to happiness. Conversely, lack of gratitude is the curse of the unhappy.

Konosuke Matsushita

#19. Purity, we see in the object-lesson, is NOT the one thing needful; and it is better that a life should contract many a dirt-mark, than forfeit usefulness in its efforts to remain unspotted.

William James

#20. In film schools of the future, professors will teach 'Tammy' as an object lesson in Making Everything Go Wrong.

Richard Corliss

#21. I mean, in a way, I feel that one of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson in how not to set up our values and social lives.

Richard Dawkins

#22. Nobody here wants Competition,' Ives LeSpark re-entering, shaking his head gravely. 'All wish but to name their Price, and maintain it, without the extra work and worry all these damn'd Up-starts require.

Thomas Pynchon

#23. Object lesson: in the world, everything is compensation. When you can't go fast, you push harder

Muriel Barbery

#24. Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

Anthony Bourdain

#25. The physical world is too good a gift to be reduced to an object lesson about 'spiritual things'.

Kenneth Myers

#26. The truth stinks.
Thus it's covered.

Toba Beta

#27. These hearts of ours are curious and contrary things, and time and nature work their will in spite of us.

Louisa May Alcott

#28. Aging teaches us to follow our life force inward. It is an object lesson in how awareness is gradually drawn towards the center ...

Stephen Levine

#29. Exposure to a two-year-old boy was probably the best possible object lesson in the dangers of motherhood,

Diana Gabaldon

#30. What was the point of giving children freedom to experiment and fail, if one then turned it all into a tiresome object lesson?

Laura Lippman

#31. You've gotten so caught up in being alone that you're afraid of what might happen if you actually find someone else that can take you away from it.

Nicholas Sparks

#32. Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.

Karl G. Maeser