Objects Quotes - Page 37

• It lies upon the people's shoulders to prepare for the war, but it lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the fight with the ultimate object of erecting the Israeli Empire.

  Moshe Dayan

  War, Lying, Fighting

  Radio "Israel", February 12, 1952.

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• We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all.

  Rene Magritte

  Order, Needs, World

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• The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects, most deserving to be known.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

  "On the revolutions".

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• Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Change, Work, People

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.314

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• Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from before them, to magnify nothing but what is great indeed, and to talk of God to them, and of His works and ways. before they can either speak or go.

  Thomas Traherne

  Christian, Children, Silly

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.160, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Beautiful, Crush, Greed

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.507, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Vision

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Fashion, Art, Thinking

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• When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. The arts are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible.

  Emile Chartier

  Fashion, Song, Art

  "The Gods". Book by Emile Chartier, 1934.

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• You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.

  Frederick Franck

  Copying, Way, Awareness

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• Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Oneness, Awareness

  "Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence".

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• Look around in the world, and you may see some in every place who are objects of pity, bereaved by sad accidents of all the comforts of life, while in the meantime Providence has tenderly preserved you.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Comfort, Looks

  John Flavel (2013). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.68, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Faith is only as valid as its object. You could have tremendous faith in very thin ice and drown. . . . You could have very little faith in very thick ice and be perfectly secure.

  Stuart Briscoe

  Christian, Ice, Littles

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• As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration, and in ancient times the two antagonistic streams, which one finds throughout in the estimates of dream life, were already noticeable. They distinguished between true and valuable dreams, sent to the dreamer to warn him or to foretell the future, and vain, fraudulent, and empty dreams, the object of which was to misguide or lead him to destruction.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Inspiration, Two

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• I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business, pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore.

  William Melmoth

  Art, Men, Mind

  William Melmoth (1805). “Fitzosborne's Letters on Several Subjects”, p.1

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• When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable.

  Charles Dickens

  Faith, Men, Moral

  Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.539

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• In fact, even the current administration now is releasing recent reports indicating that climate change is real, that global warming is occurring, that it is heavily influenced by man-made objects and that it is something we cannot ignore any longer.

  Ron Kind

  Real, Men, Climate

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• To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

  Paul Cezanne

  Relationship, Harmony, Paint

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• I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.

  George Washington

  Sweet, Retirement, Freedom

  George Washington (1851). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.337

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• I was never the sort of child who believed in "monsters under the bed" or vampires, or who needed a night-light in his bedroom; on the contrary, my father...once laughingly told my mother that he thought I might suffer from a type of benign psychosis called "antiparanoia," in which I seemed to believe that I was the object of an intricate universal conspiracy to make me so happy I could hardly stand it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Mother, Children, Father

  "All That" by David Foster Wallace, www.newyorker.com. December 14, 2009.

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• We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.

  Vincent de Paul

  Love, Christian, Saint

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• When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.

  Edmund Burke

  Motivational, Time, Men

  Edmund Burke (1853). “The speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: with memoir and historical introductions”, p.213

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• Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Government, Soul, Economics

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Wise, Spiritual, Evil

  Anne Bradstreet, Adrienne Rich, Jeannine Hensley (2010). “The works of Anne Bradstreet”, Belknap Pr

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• The object of war is to survive it.

  John Irving

  War

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