The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.
In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.
Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.
The campaign of character assassination waged [against President Clinton] by the right was a singular, unprecedented effort. Nothing like it exists on the left. What I object to on the right is the obsessive hatred, the bigotry, and the personal savaging of their opponents, all achieved through an echo chamber of talk radio, the Internet and Rupert Murdoch's media outlets. That kind of well-funded disinformation campaign has no analog on the left.
I don't want any minister to pray for me. But if you want a minister there to pray for the crowd, I won't object.
The only object of liberty is life.
The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than they are dependent upon our thoughts about geometry or physics!
You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.
What makes worship amazing is the object of our worship.
The object of living is work, experience, happiness.
I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.
For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power. . . is an act of perilous presumption.
Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear.
The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself.
There is a primacy of each individual object. And we'll see! That's the whole point of making sculpture, to present a question in a physical form to people.
The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.
It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.