Desire creates its own object.
The object is that which is objected against me.
I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.
The ultimate object of education should be, Gandhi said, to help create not only a balanced and harmonious individual but also a balanced and harmonious society where true justice prevails, where there is no unnatural division between the haves and the have-nots, and where everybody is assured of a living wage and the right to live and the right to freedom.
Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.
Increasingly, Christianity is the object of scorn and ridicule.
Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.
The object of powder is powder.
The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.
They say that when you’re really in love, the world becomes gossamer and gorgeous, but in my experience the world gets grimy, and the love object is in stark relief from the surroundings. This is love, a pretty thing on an ugly street.
A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
Falling in love was a solo act. I knew that, had learned that the hard way. You just jumped and hoped your parachute opened. Sometimes you looked up and saw you were falling by yourself, the object of your desire still on the plane, not interested in jumping, watching you descend into that scary place alone.
An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.
'Truly, truly, I tell you, if you ask anything of the Father in My Name, He will give it to you. Till now you have asked nothing in My Name; ask and you will receive, that your joy may be full' (Jn. 16:23). What a wonderful gift! It is a guarantee of unending, infinite blessings! It came from the lips of the unlimited God, clothed in limited humanity and called by the human name of Savior. The name by its exterior form is limited, but it represents an unlimited object, God, from Whom it borrows infinite, divine value or worth, the power and properties of God.
The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.
The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.
The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue
I end with a word on the new symbols which I have employed. Most writers on logic strongly object to all symbols. . . . I should advise the reader not to make up his mind on this point until he has well weighed two facts which nobody disputes, both separately and in connexion. First, logic is the only science which has made no progress since the revival of letters; secondly, logic is the only science which has produced no growth of symbols.
Sit down, keep your back straight, relax and have an object on which to concentrate; you might use a candle flame, a brightly colored rock, a yantra, which is a geometrical designed specifically for the practice of concentration.
Strange star-like object over Oslo right before Obama arrives. A gift of a golden medal given by a group of wise men. . . Nah.