Top 70 Objected Quotes
#2. No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected ... to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.
Carl L. Becker
#3. But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora.
"Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy ...
Gene Stratton-Porter
#4. It has been objected that I am a boy," said Roosevelt wearily - he had been hearing the charge for years - "but I can only offer the time-honored reply, that years will cure me of that." He
Edmund Morris
#5. Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.
Salman Rushdie
#6. Mr. Dennis received this part of the scheme with a wry face, observing that as a general principle he objected to women altogether, as being unsafe and slippery persons on whom there was no calculating with any certainty, and who were never in the same mind for four-and-twenty hours at a stretch.
Charles Dickens
#7. What Mencken most strongly objected to in religion was not the expression of nonsensical views - these could easily be combated by rebuttal from the other side - but the inveterate tendency of religion to seek the enforcement of its views by the power of the government.
H.L. Mencken
#8. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.
Aldous Huxley
#9. Evanlyn smiled grimly as she thought how once she might have objected to the cruelty of the bird's death. Now, all she felt was a sense of satisfaction as she realized that they would eat well today.
Amazing how an empty belly could change your perspective, she thought.
John Flanagan
#10. A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a hundred years. "In that case," said the wise man, "plant it immediately." [On the importance of fundamental research.]
John Charles Polanyi
#11. But there is a sign!" objected Primrose in semi-shock. "A sign indicating pets aren't permitted. Really, some people.
Gail Carriger
#12. Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those.
Eric Cantor
#14. Oh no, Papa, Kitty objected warmly. Varenka adores her. And besides, she does so much good! Ask anyone you like! Everybody knows her and Aline Stah. Perhaps, he said, pressing her arm with his elbow. But it is better to do good so that, ask whom you will, no one knows anything about it.
Leo Tolstoy
#15. It was his shoes, he noticed to his pleasure, that she most objected to; and he thought: bloody good, that's what shoes are for.
John Le Carre
#16. Both my parents, grandmother and all close relatives who met Diana liked her very much, and my parents and grandmother never objected to our relationship. They were very much happy for us to make a decision ourselves and made it clear they would support it 100 per cent. We both had their blessing.
Hasnat Khan
#17. An unpleasant odour would not be objected to, it is not objected to now in many continental hotels.
H.G.Wells
#18. But if they have a flashlight, it means they're human and not some kind of monsters from the surface,' objected Artyom.
"I don't know what's worse," said Melnik, cutting off Artyom.
Dmitry Glukhovsky
#19. But men don't dry up, Melena objected; they can father to the death. Ah, we're slow learners, Nanny countered. But they can't learn at all.
Gregory Maguire
#20. Isn't that dangerous?" I objected. "What if somebody used it on people - what if they put it on replace and turned us all into fictional characters?"
"How do you know they haven't?" asked Marc.
Polly Shulman
#21. The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!
John F. Kennedy
#22. Lord Worth: 'I think you may be quite useful to me. The heiress has a brother.'
Captain Audley: 'I am not the least interested in her brother,' objected the Captain.
Georgette Heyer
#23. I've changed a great deal. I used to be vicious to my parents, just because they objected to me going full-time with a group. Now I can see that all they wanted was the best for me. And we get on great.
Peter Ham
#24. I did not want to worship gods as cruel as this - gods cruel enough to rape my mother after she objected to being deceived, or willing to waste the lives of hundreds, perhaps thousands of men in a useless war. I did not want to believe we could not be free.
Amalia Carosella
#25. If only I had objected harder, or ordered him or something. It could have been different. It should have been different. None of this was meant to happen this way ...
Steve Merrick
#26. Mrs March knew that experience was an excellent teacher, and, when it was possible, she left her children to learn alone the lessons which she would gladly have made easier, if they had not objected to taking advice as much as they did salts and senna.*
Louisa May Alcott
#27. The beaver dam had been constructed on the ruins of a man-made one, built by the CCC back in the thirties and later dynamited by an irate Finn who'd objected to the government's meddling with nature.
Philip Caputo
#28. He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read.
Pyotr Kropotkin
#29. The object is that which is objected against me.
Julien Torma
#30. That's a very murky position," objected Felix.
"So's the weather. But this is England, we must learn to live with uncertainty.
Gail Carriger
#31. Dr. Yei," Bannerji objected, "if you're trying to knock a man out you've got to hit him a lot harder than that." Yei recoiled fearfully as Van Atta surged up out of his seat. "I didn't want to risk killing him . . ." "Why not?" muttered Bannerji under his breath. Furiously,
Lois McMaster Bujold
#32. But he's nice," Barby objected.
Tom Bishop smiled without humor. "Most pleasant and interesting man I ever knew was a burglar.
John Blaine
#33. I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.
Stan Brakhage
#34. No proper princess would come out looking for dragons," Woraug objected.
"Well I'm not a proper princess then!" Cimorene snapped. "I make cherries jubillee and I volunteer for dragons, and I conjugate Latin verbs
or at least I would if anyone would let me. So there!
Patricia C. Wrede
#35. You can't tell me anything about family life. I've had plenty to last me.' 'But it's not all like that,' I objected. 'Near enough. It's all being under somebody's thumb.
Willa Cather
#36. In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.
Derek Bailey
#37. Nobody objected to live in prison
if already felt comfortable living in it.
Toba Beta
#38. What the hell?" Helena objected. "And would someone please flick a Bic or rub two sticks together? I want to die knowing exactly what killed me.
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#39. Hollow then produced Kobel's tax returns for the past three years.
When Ringling objected, Hollow said to Judge Rollins, "Your Honor, a man who files a tax return is of sound mind."
"That's debatable," said the ultraconservative judge, drawing laughter from the courtroom.
Jeffery Deaver
#40. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
G.K. Chesterton
#41. Let's ask D. L. Moody." Another objected and said, "D. L. Moody does not have a monopoly of the Holy Spirit." "No, he does not," was the reply, "but the Holy Spirit has a monopoly on him.
William Thrasher
#42. The ties of blood," said Spider, "are stronger than water."
Water's not strong," objected Fat Charlie.
Neil Gaiman
#43. Then the animals began to sing. First the crocodiles.
But crocodiles can't sing, I objected at this point every evening.
Sure they can, answers my father very quietly. Crocodiles sing, if only you let them. You just have to be quiet to hear them.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#44. Imogenia's temper flared. "I was to become queen when you died, Father! He will pay," she snarled. "Honey," the king objected, "I'm not going to say I understand how you feel, but not forgiving someone hurts you, not the one you hate.
L.R.W. Lee
#45. When I arrived in America, I had these very dark red nails which some people objected to, but then some people object to absolutely everything.
Diana Vreeland
#46. I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.
Robert Smith
#47. Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it's realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy.
Ron Paul
#48. It was possible to find someone, somewhere, who objected to anything.
Terry Pratchett
#49. Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.
Jean Rhys
#50. ...The conversation had become unreal since Christianity had entered it. Ronny approved of religion as long as it endorsed the National Anthem, but he objected when it attempted to influence his life.
E. M. Forster
#51. Envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.
Ada Leverson
#52. He'd never said a single thing anyone objected to. Tapioca in a suit.
Ruth Cardello
#53. Oh Lord, we thank Thee for this thy gift of lobster Newburg. And grant us also, if it be Thy will, control of the Hudson Ohio Railroad.'
'But we ain't wanting control of the Hudson Ohio, Sean softly objected.
'True,' said Gabriel Love, 'but the Almighty doesn't need to know that yet.
Edward Rutherfurd
#54. He had to comfort himself with the firm conviction that most of what he objected to in Mohawk and the world at large was not the result of people reading the wrong books, but rather of not reading any at all.
Richard Russo
#55. Google's library plan was staggering and exciting - it wasn't the idea I objected to, but the method.
Nick Harkaway
#56. If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#57. A vice is merely a pleasure that someone else has objected to.
Robin Skelton
#58. You're so sweet, Gregori, Savannah purred, her voice strong in his mind.
I am not sweet, he objected strenuously.
Christine Feehan
#59. Moreover, he objected, "I have never done an official act with a view to promote my own personal aggrandizement, and I don't like to begin now.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#60. It's not that we didn't get along, it's just that my mother-in-law is very objective. She objected to everything I did.
Beverly D'Angelo
#61. My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure.
Charles Bukowski
#62. Do you trust me, Pidge?"
"Yeah, why?"
"C'mere," he said, pulling me against him. I stiffened for a second or two before resting my head on his chest. Whatever was going on with him, he needed me near him, and I couldn't have objected even if I'd wanted to. It felt right lying next to him.
Jamie McGuire
#63. Your breasts are alabaster orbs.' "What?" Rufus objected. "That's stupid. I'm not saying that."
"Do you have some better suggestion?"
"Why can't you just say she's got a fair set of titties?
Tessa Dare
#64. I am held to answer for the crime of color when I was not consulted in the matter. Had I been consulted in the matter and my future fully described, I think I should have objected to being born in this gospel land.
James T. Rapier
#65. A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.
Robin Skelton
#66. As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and if no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
Clarence Darrow
#67. Oh, but a real princess would know that hard work ennobles the soul,' Rose objected. 'That would be one of the signs.
Regina Doman
#68. That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example, for continental drift when it was proposed by Wegener. Nevertheless, we see that Wegener was right, and those who objected on the grounds of unavailable mechanism were wrong.
Carl Sagan
#69. If it be objected that God must give every man an opportunity to be saved, we reply that the outward call does give every man who hears it an opportunity to be saved. The message is: 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.'
Loraine Boettner
#70. You've written three lines"
"Three carefully considered lines,"Xavier objected. "Quality over quantity, remember
Alexandra Adornetto
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