Reserve is the truest expression of respect towards those who are its objects

It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind, which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Hope does not necessarily have to take an object.

Have you ever seen any member of radiohead aside from me in public? Do they interact or ‘lift’ objects? Holograms, all of them. I created them in 1991 using my massive brainpower. Even pitchforkmedia is a product of my brilliant imagination

My objective has been to empower jointness, to push individuals to consider affiliations as opposed to working as solo business visionaries.

There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure

I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake

It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf

Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.

Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love’s sake.

You wouldn’t know it had claimed so many hopeful, thrashing, gasping lives, but that’s the thing with the sea, it never looks guilty.

More often than not, an exhibition is merely a misplaced object

In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing

To dwell in the here and now does not mean you never think about the past or responsibly plan for the future. The idea is simply not to allow yourself to get lost in regrets about the past or worries about the future. If you are firmly grounded in the present moment, the past can be an object of inquiry, the object of your mindfulness and concentration. You can attain many insights by looking into the past. But you are still grounded in the present moment

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn’t control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps in evidence, errors in interpretation, in objects, far from his own.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher

Every object is a mixture of lots of things, so we can deal with it only as a series of approximations and idealizations.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

The object of defense is preservation; and since it is easier to hold ground than to take it, defense is easier than attack. But defense has a passive purpose: preservation; and attack a positive one: conquest…. If defense is the stronger form of war, yet has a negative object, it follows that it should be used only so long as weakness compels, and be abandoned as soon as we are strong enough to pursue a positive object.

The objects of philosophy, it is true, are upon the whole the same as those of religion. In both the object is Truth, in that supreme sense in which God and God only is the Truth.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

We are not objects or prizes. We are queens.

The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body.

The value is in the worth, not in the number

People who love thus always love for life; for, the more, they love, the more they know the beloved object, and the easier it is for them to love; that is, to satisfy his desires.