Objects Quotes - Page 7

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.

Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively civilised weapon. 'Normal' or 'legitimate' warfare is just as destructive of inanimate objects and enormously so of human lives.

When I was in college I thought of making up a fictive artist and giving him a name and a body of work. Eventually I came around to the idea of using my own name, which had this strange distancing effect, similar to using a found object. Being a Turk was quite interesting because in a sense it was like being a foreigner.

If the mind be fixed on the acquirement of any object, that object will be attained.

In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.

The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one's thing the Revolution.

Passion is the energy that love creates with no object other than itself.

By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about.

Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

From inanimate object, to microorganism, to plant, to insect, to animal, to human, there is an evolving level of intelligence.

All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.

It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.

Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.

I conceived at least one great love in my life, of which I was always the object.

What would you do if money was no object?

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

Neither object nor time off, put up with what comes.

True love is not selfish. In time it accustoms itself to anything which secures happiness for its object.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately to defeat him, and the three major classifications are based on the method each object uses to achieve its purpose. As a general rule, any object capable of breaking down at the moment when it is most needed will do so.

There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself.