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War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing. -- Rob Pike
Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software -- Erich Gamma
All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust. -- William Cowper
If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary. -- Robert Delaunay
I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay
Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise. -- Novalis
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. -- Robert M. Hutchins
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. -- George Orwell
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force. -- Isaac Newton
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- George S. Patton
The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging. -- Margaret Heffernan
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function. -- Moshe Safdie
Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly. -- Elizabeth Hurley
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. -- David Hume
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large. -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones. -- Nancy Gibbs
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. -- Dale Carnegie
Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye. -- Vidal Sassoon
This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice. -- Adam Weishaupt
I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. -- Walt Whitman
Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple. -- Jonathan Ive
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted. -- Erich Fromm
Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. -- Stan Brakhage
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. -- Thomas A. Edison
Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by man that is not beautiful, for God's manifestation is beauty. It shines through all His works, and not only in those that may give pleasure to man. -- Annie Besant
Every kid has a toy that they believe is their best friend, that they believe communicates with them, and they imagine it being alive, their toy horse or car or whatever it is. Stop-motion is the only medium where we literally can make a toy come to life, an actual object. -- Henry Selick
Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object. -- Ram Dass
The object is freedom. -- Anne Bogart
Their object is disunion. -- Andrew Jackson
poetry's object is truth ... -- Christine de Pizan
Purpose is stronger than object. -- Jim Rohn
Desire creates its own object. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Morality is the object of government. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love does not analyze its object. -- Henry David Thoreau
The object of powder is powder. -- George Orwell
The object of power is power. -- George Orwell
In every object there is inexhaustible meaning. -- Thomas Carlyle
Victory is the main object in war. -- Sun Tzu
The irresistible force meets the immovable object. -- Gorilla Monsoon
Know thyself; this is the great object. -- Seneca the Younger
Theology is a subject without an object -- Dan Barker
Character is the main object of education. -- Mary Wooley
Don't object so much, you'll live longer. -- Michael Nesmith
The Text is not a definitive object. -- Roland Barthes
Art is an experience, not an object. -- Robert Motherwell
The present eye praises the present object. -- William Shakespeare
The only object of liberty is life. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The book. Calming object. Held in the hand. -- Maira Kalman
The object of living is work, experience, happiness. -- Henry Ford
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others. -- Karl G. Maeser
I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons. -- Junot Diaz
The natural object is always the adequate symbol. -- Ezra Pound
The idea is more important than the object. -- Damien Hirst
I love bringing the inanimate object to life. -- John Lasseter
Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object. -- Plotinus
The object of the superior man is truth. -- Confucius
No better love than love with no object -- Rumi
The true object of human life is play. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The coward is an object to be pitied. -- Swami Vivekananda
To model an object is to possess it. -- Pablo Picasso
The object of war is to survive it. -- John Irving
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. -- Elizabeth Bowen
The creative mind plays with the object it loves. -- Carl Jung
The object is that which is objected against me. -- Julien Torma
I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to. -- Mark Twain
The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion. -- Washington Irving
Public instruction should be the first object of government. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Between the subject and the object lies the value. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject. -- Andre Breton
Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Happiness is the object and design of our existence. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible. -- Tippi Hedren
An object, after all, is what makes infinity private. -- Joseph Brodsky
Education has for its object the formation of character. -- Herbert Spencer
Kindness isn't so difficult, when the object is worthy. -- Brenda Hiatt
Hope does not necessarily have to take an object ... -- Gail Godwin
What would you do if money was no object? -- Alan Watts
Increasingly, Christianity is the object of scorn and ridicule. -- David R. Mains
Joy needs no object; it is our own nature. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. -- George Meredith
The ocean is an object of no small terror. -- Edmund Burke
The object of your desire is not an object. -- Jack Gardner
To beautify life is to give it an object. -- Jose Marti
The great object is that every man be armed. -- Patrick Henry
I object to every single thing you just said. -- Rainbow Rowell
If you're not a sex object, you're in trouble. -- Helen Gurley Brown
A fetish is a story masquerading as an object. -- Robert Stoller
The object of art is to give life shape. -- Jean Anouilh
I warn you, I refuse to be an object. -- Leonora Carrington
Those who object to wit are envious of it. -- William Hazlitt
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Making an object means imbuing it with its own spirit. -- Kenji Ekuan
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
The self is too small an object for perpetual enthusiasm. -- Huston Smith
What makes worship amazing is the object of our worship. -- Francis Chan
All the basic information should be in the object itself. -- Michael Craig-Martin
Settle for nothing less than the object of your desire. -- Alma Luz Villanueva
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility. -- Karl Marx
The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant. -- Joseph Campbell
Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong. -- Julia Cameron
Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect. -- Averroes
Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object. -- Peter Schjeldahl
The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs. -- Winston Churchill
Color... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes. -- Charles Baudelaire
Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin. -- Saadi
Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The object of government is the welfare of the people. -- Theodore Roosevelt
What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be -- Chauncey Wright
That's the object of going to a gym, having fun. -- Joe Gold
You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort. -- Terence McKenna
My means are sane, my motives and my object mad. -- Herman Melville
Beauty is the love that we devote to an object. -- Paul Serusier

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