Objected To Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. I never, ever objected to hard work.

Dominique Moceanu

#7. 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

#8. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

Aldous Huxley

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.

Stan Brakhage

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. Google's library plan was staggering and exciting - it wasn't the idea I objected to, but the method.

Nick Harkaway

#19. An unpleasant odour would not be objected to, it is not objected to now in many continental hotels.

H.G.Wells

#20. He'd never said a single thing anyone objected to. Tapioca in a suit.

Ruth Cardello

#21. Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

Jean Rhys

#22. It was possible to find someone, somewhere, who objected to anything.

Terry Pratchett

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

G.K. Chesterton

#26. Nobody objected to live in prison
if already felt comfortable living in it.

Toba Beta

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. A vice is merely a pleasure that someone else has objected to.

Robin Skelton

#32. If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora.
"Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy ...

Gene Stratton-Porter

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read.

Pyotr Kropotkin

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.

Robin Skelton

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. ...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

#54. 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