| "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 |
| "Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "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 |
| "The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O." »Martin Mull |
| "Real programmers can write assembly code in any language." »Larry Wall |
| "Literature should not be surpressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor." »William Orville Douglas |
| "Sometimes it pays to stay in bed in Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debuging Monday's code." »Dan Salomon |
| "Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards -- the things we live by and teach our children -- are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings." »Walt Disney |
| "Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand." »Anonymous |
| "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 |
| "To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object." »Simone de Beauvoir |
| "Never fight an inanimate object." »P. J. O'Rourke |
| "The education of the will is the object of our existence." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be." »Jerry Seinfeld |
| "My object all sublime I shall achieve in time..." »W. S. Gilbert |
| "No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye." »Elizabeth Bowen |
| "The object of the superior man is truth." »Confucius |
| "Education has for its object the formation of character." »Herbert Spencer |
| "It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them." »Man Ray |
| "Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind." »George Washington Allston |
| "What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be" »Chauncey Wright |
| "The great object is, that every man be armed. ... Every one who is able may have a gun." »Patrick Henry |
| "When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object." »Milan Kundera |
| "Love becomes perfect only when it transcends itself --Becoming One with its object Producing Unity of Being." »Hakim Jami |
| "An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit." »Pliny the Younger |
| "The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives." »Robert Hutchins |
| "History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it." »Carl Sandburg |
| "It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon." »John Christian Bovee |
| "Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated." »Miguel de Unamuno |
| "The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions." »Bishop Creighton |
| Like Quotes.net? Why won't you tell a friend about us? |
