(677 quotes found)
“A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.”
John McDonald
“The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.”
Marshall McLuhan
“I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.”
Samuel Goldwyn
“Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos-novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes-you are beyond doubt the strangest?”
Walker Percy
“Never fight an inanimate object.”
P. J. O'Rourke
“Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.”
Dan Millman
“As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.”
Clarence Darrow
“To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.”
Simone de Beauvoir
“The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.”
William S. Burroughs
“We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things and yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy for us”
Mark Twain