You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.
Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.
The sense of ownership is one reason why abuse tends to get worse as relationships get more serious. The more history and commitment that develop in the couple, the more the abuser comes to think of his partner as a prized object. Possessiveness is at the core of the abuser's mindset, the spring from which all the other streams spout; on some level he feels that he owns you and therefore has the right to treat you as he sees fit.
I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.
There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.
To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible.
Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.
Devotion is about you. Maybe you use another object as inspiration, but you change your quality; you walk more joyfully, gently upon this planet.
She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt
At the end of your life, you cannot take a penny with you. So what is the object of money if you can't take it with you?
Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life.
What I mean by love. . . is this. A sympathetic liking--excited by fancy, directed by judgment--and to which is joined also a most sincere desire of the good and happiness of its object.
Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object. . . . this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change their state are objects. And then there are things that are not objects. A binary search is not an object. It is an algorithm
Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.
The object of our serch is the fire of grace which enters into the heart.
I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then I realized that no kite is gonna fly that high.
PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.
I don't know if you have ever been the object of someone's obsession - but if it's not of your desire, it is horrible. It is really awful.
In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued.
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.