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• For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

  Warren Farrell

  Tags in Object, Treated

• In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it’s a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.

  Tadao Ando

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Building, Object, Attempt

• The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Object, Pursue, Characteristic, Choice

• Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Object, Aesthetic, Literary, Literature

• Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

  Coco Chanel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Boredom, Object, Window, Flee, Jump, Passion, Feel

• I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Creation, God

  Tags in Object, Cannot, Reflection, Imagination

• Never fight an inanimate object.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Object, Never

• The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

  Thomas Babington Macaulay

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Object

• To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Object

• It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

  T. S. Eliot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Object, Space, World, Time

• 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 Alva Edison

  Topics in Intelligence, Work

  Tags in Always, Object, Production, Honest, Purpose, Being

• My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

  Thomas Arnold

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Object, Christian, Possible, Make

• The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

  Richard Steele

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Object, Within, Pity, Until

• The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Least, Object, World

• The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

  Robert Brault

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Object, Good, Prayer, Intention

• A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

  Richard Schickel

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Object, Artist

• If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

  Mason Cooley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Object, Rest, Hate

• I’m being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

  Mason Cooley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Object, Time, Like, Matter

• Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

  Napoleon Hill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Object, Price

• Not a single piece of material culture – not a single object – has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.

  Zahi Hawass

  Tags in Object, Interpreted