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My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.
This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.
We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.
An object should elicit desire, and often it happens not because people need it but because they love it.
An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.
I often think about what love can inspire in the world, not just in the eyes of the object of your affection.
I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.
If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.
An object is chiral if it cannot be brought into congruence with its mirror image by translation and rotation.
I think those who object to my characterizing man as simple want somehow to retain a deep mystery at his core.
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard.
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
I don't mind it. My friends think it's kind of rude of the people to come up to me and treat me like an object.
I had everything that you want. Every material object. Everything. But inside my core I still wasn't satisfied.
The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it.
In film schools of the future, professors will teach 'Tammy' as an object lesson in Making Everything Go Wrong.
The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.
In anger-management training, they teach you never to hit a person - hit an object. That's what they teach you.
For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
I always liked the challenge of that, how to take an inanimate object and build something around it that's scary.
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.
I don't object to AA at all - only the programs that insist that it's the only way to get clean and to stay clean.
If laws are just properties of objects, how can those laws continue to operate when the object is not really there?
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Real luxury is a balance between quality and the affection you feel for an object that cannot be easily replicated.
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
An exquisitely complex shape now known as the Mandlebrot set has been called the most complex object in mathematics.
A door handle is very symbolic to me. It is the first object that one will interact with before entering a new space.
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.