“In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable to certain laws of conventional propriety and honor, has for its object simply the gratification of its appetites, and frowns with quite a conservative air on all new inventions, all untried experiments in iniquity.” LawCertainCommunityCommonAirObjectsHonorConservativeVicesExperimentsInventionCommon SenseSensualityAppetiteConventionalGratificationProprietyIniquityNew InventionsAmenable Book:Character and characteristic men Source: Character and characteristic men
“Speaking of opinions, the charming woman does not air hers very freely. The crude woman is eager to let you know what she thinks of every matter, person or object that bobs up. She comments on every passing item - even in public, as you may have noticed. Not only is it bad taste for her to be so desperately interested in her own reactions and opinions - but she throws away the precious aura of reserve and mystery that makes a woman attractive.” ThinkingKnowsMayPersonsDoeMatterOpinionAirMysteryObjectsTasteReactionsPassingPassingsAttractiveCommentBobReservesCharmingItemsCrudeAurasBad TasteCharming Woman Author:Margery Wilson
“I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode. Interest in the land and concern about how we are polluting the air and water of the planet are what make me want to travel back in geologic time-to witness the shaping of the earth before man.” MenWantEarthInterestWaterSawsCuttingAirLandObjectsPlanetsConcernWitnessVietnamVeteranMemorialPolishedWant To TravelAir And WaterVietnam VeteranGeologic Time Author:Maya Lin
“A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth. Its warped space whirls around the central singularity like air in a tornado.” EarthBlackSpaceRichAirObjectsMountainOceanStructureHolesValleysSingularityBlack HoleTornadoes Author:Kip Thorne
“There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.” MovingAirObjectsReflectionChairsFurniturePeacefulnessRocking Chairs Author:Wallis Simpson
“Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation sole - a creature of ecclesiastical law - is an acceptable adversary, and large fortunes ride on its cases... So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland, or even air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern life.” FeelsShouldSometimesWaterPartyCasesTechnologyAirTreeModernObjectsPersonalityPressureFortuneEnvironmentalShipsCorporationsDestructiveValleysAcceptableModern LifeAdversariesGroveRidgesInanimate ObjectsModern Technology Author:William O. Douglas
“The character of the landscape changes from hour to hour, day to day, season to season. Nothing of the earth can be taken for granted; you feel that Creation is going on in your sight. You see things in the high air that you do not see farther down in the lowlands. In the high country all objects bear upon you, and you touch hard upon the earth. From my home I can see the huge, billowing clouds; they draw close upon me and merge with my life.” FeelsI CanCountryHardCharacterHomeEarthHoursTakenAirCreationObjectsHugeBearsDrawsSeasonsSightCloudsGrantedLandscapeDay To DayTaken For Granted Author:N. Scott Momaday
“Velázquez, past the age of fifty, no longer painted specific objects. He drifted around things like the air, like twilight, catching unawares in the shimmering shadows the nuances of color that he transformed into the invisible core of his silent symphony.” AgePastAirObjectsColorShadowSilentCoreInvisibleFiftyTransformedTwilightSymphonyCatchingNuance Author:Elie Faure
“Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was held up by air. The loss of confidence that affected banks and financial instruments was not affecting cherubs, cupids and flattened popes. The objects hadn't changed: what was there before was there after. But a vacancy was created with the clamoring crowds deserted and retrenched.” YearsArtLossPrinciplesAirObjectsChangedInstrumentsRewardsFinancialCrowdsAffectedAestheticPopeCommodityPsychicsDiscernmentDesertedCupidVacancyCherubs Author:Steve Martin
“If we clear the air of the fog of catchwords which surround the conduct of war, and grasp that in the human will lies the source and mainspring of all conflict, as of all other activities of man's life, it becomes clear that our object in war can only be attained by the subjugation of the opposing will. All acts, such as defeat in the field, propaganda, blockade, diplomacy, or attack on the centres of government and population, are seen to be but means to that end.” IfsMenHumansMeanWarEndsGovernmentLyingClearAirFieldsObjectsSourceActivityConflictDefeatPopulationPropagandaSurroundCentreFogDiplomacyOpposingSubjugationHuman WillBlockades Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“You would carpet bomb where ISIS is, not a city, but the location of the troops. You use air power directed - and you have embedded special forces to direction the air power. But the object isn't to level a city. The object is to kill the ISIS terrorists.” UseForceLevelsCitiesAirSpecialObjectsTerroristBombsTroopsLocationCarpetIsisEmbeddedAir PowerSpecial Forces Author:Ted Cruz
“My definition of fake news is a content-like object that is a story, an article, a video, a tweet that has been fabricated, completely invented out of thin air, intentionally for the purpose of misleading.” Has BeensStoriesPurposeAirObjectsNewsDefinitionsVideoFakeArticlesMisleadTweetThin Air Author:Vivian Schiller