object Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about object.
“The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.”
- Thomas B. Macaulay
“Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.”
- John Portman
“It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.”
- Man Ray
“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”
- Robert M. Hutchins
“Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.”
- John Portman
“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”
- John Keats
“The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.”
- Simone Weil
“Never fight an inanimate object.”
- P. J. O'Rourke
“Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.”
- Laurence J. Peter
“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent.”
- Mahatma Gandhi