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"The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers." »Earl Nightingale
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"One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to." »Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
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"I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good." »Peter Cooper
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"Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"The real object of those who resorted to Secession, as well as those who sustained it, was not to overthrow the Government of the United States but to perpetuate the principles upon which it was founded. The object in quitting the Union was not to destroy, but to save the principles of the Constitution." »Alexander Hamilton Stephens
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." »Charles Dickens
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"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." »George Orwell, 1984 Book 3, Chapter 3
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"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." »George Orwell, 1984
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"It was no Insurrection or Rebellion, or even Civil War in any proper sense of these terms... The war... was a war between States regularly organized into two separate Federal Republics... In the beginning, and throughout the contest, the object of the 'Confederates' was to maintain the separate Sovereignty of each State, and the right of self-government, which that necessarily carries with it. The object of the 'Federals,' on the contrary, was to maintain a Centralized Sovereignty over all the States on both sides. This was the fundamental principle involved in the Conflict, which must be kept continually in mind." »Alexander Hamilton Stephens
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"Reason should direct and appetite obey." »Cicero
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"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails." »Bertha Calloway
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"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity." »Plutarch
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"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem." »John Galsworthy
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"The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity." »Marcel Proust
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"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming." »John Wooden
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"To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object." »Simone de Beauvoir
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"Many a man that couldn't direct you to the drug store on the corner when he was 3 will get a respectful hearing when age has further impaired his mind." »Finley Peter Dunne
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"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses." »William Arthur Ward
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"The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it." »Jeanne-Marie Roland
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"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy." »Henry David Thoreau
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"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses." »William Arthur Ward
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"We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides." »Saint Thomas Aquinas
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"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." »Vince Lombardi
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"A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain." »Author Unknown
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"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace." »Andr Gide
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"Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for." »Terry Lynn Taylor
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"Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous." »Leonardo DaVinci
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"Shall ignorance of good and ill
Dare to direct the eternal will?
Seek virtue, and of that possest,
To Providence resign the rest." »Gay
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"In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight." »Henry Watton
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"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations." »David Friedman
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