Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
I object to every single thing you just said.
The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed in measuring the earth. Euclid is perpetually in their hands. Aristotle and Theophrastus are the objects of their admiration; and they express an uncommon reverence for the works of Galen. Their errors are derived from the abuse of the arts and sciences of the infidels, and they corrupt the simplicity of the gospel by the refinements of human reason.
Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
Oh each successive night that comes has something in it of an abandoned ember that is slowly burning out, and it falls swathed in ruins, surrounded by funereal objects.
A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.
The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.
It was the peculiar artifice of Habit not to suffer her power to be felt at first. Those whom she led, she had the address of appearing only to attend, but was continually doubling her chains upon her companions; which were so slender in themselves, and so silently fastened, that while the attention was engaged by other objects, they were not easily perceived. Each link grew tighter as it had been longer worn; and when by continual additions they became so heavy as to be felt, they were very frequently too strong to be broken.
The present eye praises the present object.
The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant.
Mankind will discover objects in space sent to us by the watchers.
Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.
Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new, And all is lovely.
I can move objects with my mind. . . . . if I use my hands!
They think I'm silly. I do silly things. I fall down and run into things. I talk to inanimate objects. I'll hold a pickup stick to my ear and say, "What? What's that? I can't hear you
I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary.
Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.
. . . with a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object.
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.