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The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.
Alexander the Great
The ultimate aim of conquest is to stay clear of replicating the defeated.
2.
Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.
Charles Stanley
Our patience in anticipation demonstrates the worth we attach to the item we are yearning for.
3.
Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.
Averroes
Understanding is the union of the subject and the intellect.
4.
The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.
Juvenal
The bride price, not the bride, is the focus of appeal.
5.
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
Sri Aurobindo
One who cherishes God discovers the focus of their adoration in every place.
6.
With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.
James Turrell
'Without a goal, vision, or concentration, what are you gazing at? You are observing yourself examining.'
7.
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
Bobby Jones
8.
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
Thomas Merton
9.
The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.
Piet Mondrian
10.
Mankind will discover objects in space sent to us by the watchers.
Nostradamus
11.
It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us.
Tilopa
12.
Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold
Aristotle
13.
The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied
Confucius
14.
Love is the experience that others are not others. Beauty is the experience that objects are not objects.
Rupert Spira
16.
You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
Wislawa Szymborska
17.
Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.
Jose Rizal
18.
Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness.
Paola Antonelli
19.
My biggest fear? My biggest fear would be turning into an inanimate object.
Darren Criss
21.
True love has no object. It is a state of being.
John McAfee
22.
An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
Isaac Newton
23.
Objects always meet your obsession. Once you have an obsession, you step on it at every corner.
Sophie Calle
24.
The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception.
George Boole
25.
It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
Timothy Keller
26.
If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.
Wayne Thiebaud
27.
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
Margaret Fuller
28.
What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?
Alan Watts
29.
The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
Dorothea Lange
30.
Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.
Andre Bazin
31.
Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.
Andre Breton
32.
Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
Jasper Johns
33.
Through life let your principal object be the discharge of duty.
Stonewall Jackson
34.
The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.
Claes Oldenburg
35.
I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
Walt Whitman
36.
It's not the elements of our worship that are awesome. It's the object of our worship Who is awesome.
Louie Giglio
37.
Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself.
Peter Rollins
39.
But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
Gabriel Marcel
40.
I am never afraid to serve the society. And if someone objects, I will send them a garland.
Mayawati
41.
Nirvana is where you are, provided you don't object to it.
Alan Watts
42.
I wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas.
Sol LeWitt
43.
A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)
Virgil
44.
You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule.
Peter Dinklage
45.
There are places, just as there are people and objects... whose relationship of parts creates a mystery.
Paul Nash
46.
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
Brian Eno
47.
I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.
Andrew Wyeth
49.
An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.
Chris Marker
50.
If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects?
John Zorn