Best objects & wish Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.”

Men Government Wish Enjoy Objects Produce Ought Safety Property Fruit Every Man Pursue Accomplished Labour Expenses Occupation

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Iconography becomes even more revealing when processes or concepts, rather than objects, must be depicted for the constraint of a definite "thing" cedes directly to the imagination. How can we draw "evolution" or "social organization," not to mention the more mundane "digestion" or "self-interest," without portraying more of a mental structure than a physical reality? If we wish to trace the history of ideas, iconography becomes a candid camera trained upon the scholar's mind.”

Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history

“Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed from being the slave of his wishes, of his abilities, of his necessities; he stands far above social ethics; he is alone. Thus he becomes one and all.”

Men World Wish Social Ability Objects Eternal Ethics Slave Isolation

Book:Sex & Character

Source: Sex & Character

“All my plans in private life; all my pursuits; all my designs, wishes, and thoughts, have this one great object in view: the overthrow of the ruffian Boroughmongers. If I write grammars; if I write on agriculture; if I sow, plant, or deal in seeds; whatever I do has first in view the destruction of those infamous tyrants.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Wish Views Deals Plans Design Objects Destruction Plant Seeds Pursuit Tyrants Agriculture Grammar Private Life Infamous Ruffian

Author:William Cobbett

“I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.”

Knows Mean Use Individual Wish Decision Objects Reverence

Book:Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

“Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.”

Want Feels Persons Life Is Wish Emotion Objects Prejudice Victim Release Unhappiness Irrelevant Subjective Dissatisfaction

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.”

Wells Said Wish Forget Destiny Objects Birth Painful Ties Recalls Our Destiny Absent Birthplace Birth Place Painful Thoughts

Book:Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

“The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.”

Ifs Giving Doe Pain Wish Pleasure Objects Friends Please Latter True Friend Flatterer Shunning

Book:Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays

Source: Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays

“You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.”

Children Wish Grows Parent Growing Up Objects Disappointment Bitter Bitter Disappointment

Author:Queen Victoria

“Everything in your world is filled with intelligence, even the so-called inanimate objects. Treat them intelligently if you wish to obtain intelligent, harmonious results.”

Ifs World Wish Results Objects Treats Intelligent Filled Harmonious Inanimate Objects

Book:The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity

Source: The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity

“If you wish to find Love, don't look for the object of love but rather for the source of love. There you will find the Beloved.”

Ifs Looks Wish Objects Source Beloved Finding Love

Author:Mooji

“As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.”

Firsts Kind I Can Use Political Certain Politics Wish Money Objects Bases Rings Can Not Indispensable Contests

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence.”

Life Life Is Wish Grief Objects Consequence Disappointment Petty Incidents

Book:The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous

Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous

“We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.”

Ifs Want Should Desire Wish Objects Eagerness

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.”

Looks Art Helping Wish Objects Window Sells Stores Devotional

Author:W. H. Auden

“So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing issues in sleep and stomachy comfort, then need, ache, message, object, act, and satisfaction are soon associated like charms on a chain; shortly our wants begin to envision the things which well reduce them, and the organism is finally said to wish.”

Ifs Want Needs Wells Said Desire Wish Sleep Issues Objects Comfort Messages Hunger Satisfaction Chains Charm Breasts Permit Milk Provoking Organisms Ache Infancy Swallowing Wailing

Author:William H. Gass

“If you wish to behold God, you may see Him in every object around; search in your breast, and you will find Him there. And if you do not yet perceive where He dwells, confute me, if you can, and say where He is not.”

Ifs May God Wish Objects Perceive Breasts

Author:Pietro Metastasio

“If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.”

Ifs Use Wish Liberty Economy Economic Objects Particular Essentials Preserves Sufficient Justification Coercion Free Society Desirability

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit!”

Source: An Address Delivered at the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843

“It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.”

Wish Doubt Objects Acquire Facility

Book:The Metaphysics

Source: The Metaphysics

“I wish my life and decisions to depend upon myself, not on external forces of whatever kind. I wish to be the instrument of my own, not other men's, acts of will. I wish to be the subject, not an object...I wish to be somebody, not nobody; a doer - deciding, not being decided for, slef-directed and not acted upon by external nature or by other men as if I were a thing, or an animal, or a slave incapable of playing a human role, that is, of conceiving goals and policies of my own and realizing them.”

Ifs Men Humans Kind Force Wish Goal Realizing My Own Decision Animal Roles Subjects Policy Objects Depends Decided Instruments Slave Incapable Doers Conceiving External Forces

Author:Isaiah Berlin

“I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J.J. Abrams is.”

Wish Objects Directors Cameras Abram

Author:Joseph Gatt

“The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express a wish. And their wish would then be brought to a priest, who would find a ritual object, and the appropriate sacrifices would be made, and the shrine would be built for the god.”

Made Would Be Together Used Wish Community Sacrifice Objects Built Appropriate Priests Ritual Shrines

Author:Chris Abani

“In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some attributes, rejection of other attributes, creation or distortion of still others. We make of it what we wish. We create it.”

Mean Stills Wish Creation Objects Aspect Perceive Rejection Attributes Selection Distortion

Book:Toward a Psychology of Being

Source: Toward a Psychology of Being

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