Top 32 Object Lesson Quotes
#1. 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
#3. 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
#4. Exposure to a two-year-old boy was probably the best possible object lesson in the dangers of motherhood,
Diana Gabaldon
#5. 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
#6. The physical world is too good a gift to be reduced to an object lesson about 'spiritual things'.
Kenneth Myers
#7. Object lesson: in the world, everything is compensation. When you can't go fast, you push harder
Muriel Barbery
#8. 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
#9. In film schools of the future, professors will teach 'Tammy' as an object lesson in Making Everything Go Wrong.
Richard Corliss
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. It has always been an ambition of mine to serve as an object lesson for others.
Patricia Briggs
#13. A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.
Mahatma Gandhi
#14. 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
#15. She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things.
Diana Athill
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. These hearts of ours are curious and contrary things, and time and nature work their will in spite of us.
Louisa May Alcott
#22. The truth stinks.
Thus it's covered.
Toba Beta
#23. Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.
Anthony Bourdain
#24. 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
#25. Gratitude leads to happiness. Conversely, lack of gratitude is the curse of the unhappy.
Konosuke Matsushita
#26. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
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