(677 quotes found)
“She saw objectives, not obstacles.”
Wallace Stegner
“The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.”
William Beveridge
“My main objective is to be professional but to kill him [Lennox Lewis].”
Mike Tyson
“Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye.”
Cynthia Ozick
“A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.”
Karl von Clausewitz
“The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.”
Robert Brault
“My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.”
Casey Affleck
“A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel”
Heywood C. Broun
“The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected.”
Thomas Nagel
