T Quotes
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“The object of all who came to Oregon in early times was to avail themselves of the privilege of a donation claim, and my opinion to-day is that every man and woman fully earned and merited all they got, but we have a small class of very small people here now who have no good word for the old settler that so bravely met every danger and privation, and by hard toil acquired, and careful economy, saved the means to make them comfortable during the decline of life. These, however are degenerate scrubs, too cowardly to face the same dangers that our pioneer men and women did, and too lazy to perform an honest day’s work if it would procure them a homestead in paradise. They would want the day reduced to eight hours and board thrown in.”
Source: Pioneer Days on Puget Sound
“The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.”
“The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.”
“The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.
The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces.
There is no special trick about writing or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it....
The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.
The point of being an artist is that you may live....
You won't arrive. It is an endless search.”
“The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.”
Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout
“The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.”
Source: Alberto Giacometti
“The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.”
“The object of Art is to give life a shape.”
“The object of art is to give life shape.”
Source: The rehearsal: a play in three acts
“The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.”
“The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.”
Source: Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy
“The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.”
“The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!”
“The object of defense is preservation; and since it is easier to hold ground than to take it, defense is easier than attack. But defense has a passive purpose: preservation; and attack a positive one: conquest.... If defense is the stronger form of war, yet has a negative object, it follows that it should be used only so long as weakness compels, and be abandoned as soon as we are strong enough to pursue a positive object.”
“The object of education is not merely to enable our children to gain their daily bread and to acquire pleasant means of recreation, but that they should know God and serve Him with earnestness and devotion.”
“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”
“The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government, is the happiness and aggrandizement of one, or a few, and to this the public felicity, and every other interest must submit.”
“The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction.”
Source: On Writing
“The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil of material forms, and disclose the thoughts which lie beneath them? When our researches are successful, and when a generous and heaven-eyed inspiration has elevated us above humanity, and raised us triumphantly into the very presence, as it were, of the divine intellect, how instantly and entirely are human pride and vanity repressed, and, by a single glance at the glories of the infinite mind, are we humbled to the dust.”
“The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.”
“The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.”
“The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.”
“The object of government is the welfare of the people.”
Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations
“The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens.”
Source: The New Nationalism
“The object of jihad is to bring the whole world under Islamic Law.”
Source: The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years
“The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.”
“The object of leadership may be stated as having a system whereby a leader recognizes what is good for the good of the government, for the good of the nation, for the good of humanity, and recognizes the qualities he has and what he can do within his own limitations. He cannot do, and should not attempt to do, the impossible, but he should not fail to attempt something that might be extremely difficult and may be possible.”
“The object of life is not happiness, but to serve God or the Grail. All of the Grail quests are to serve God. If one understands this and drops his idiotic notion that the meaning of life is personal happiness, then one will find that elusive quality immediately at hand.”
Source: He: Understanding Masculine Psychology
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
“The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.”
Source: The Principles of Success in Literature
“The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.”
Source: The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set
“The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.”
“The object of love is to serve, not to win”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence
“The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time; but to assure for ever, the way of his future desires.”
Source: The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition
“The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.”
Source: The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence
“The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it.”
“The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.”
“The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.”
“The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.”
“The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.”
“The object of my researches is the brain. The cranium is only a faithful cast of the external surface of the brain, and is consequently but a minor part of the principal object.”
“The object of my worship lies beyond perceptions reach. For those who see, the Ka'ba is a compass, nothing more.”
“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”
“The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.”
“The object of our forest policy is not to preserve the forests because they are beautiful-or because they are refuges for the wild creatures of the wilderness-but the making of prosperous homes-every other consideration becomes secondary.”
“The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity.”
Source: Zen in English literature and oriental classics
“The object of our serch is the fire of grace which enters into the heart.”
“The object of our sojourns on earth, as apart from the gaining of experience, is but one. The loosing of ourselves from the coil of reincarnation, which, over and over again, brings us back to earth as on a coiled spring, until, having learned the last lesson of matter, leaped the last barrier, we are freed for ever from earth.”
“The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.”
Source: Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait