Quotes of: Objections Keyword

There is great danger in this Golden Mean, one of whose main objects is to steer clear of shipwreck, Scylla being as fatal as Charybdis. No, this lofty and equable attitude is worse than wrong unless it derives from striking the balance between two v...

Magick Without Tears

Sir, — Whether women are the equals of men has been endlessly debated; whether they have souls has been a moot point; but can it be too much to ask [for a definitive acknowledgement that at least they are animals?… Many hon. members may object to...

What It Means To Be Human

Life isn't about having, it's about being. You could surround yourself with all that money can buy, and you'd still be as miserable as a human can be. I know people with perfect bodies who don't have half the happiness I've found. On my journeys I've...

Nick Vujicic

As soon as jealousy is discovered, it is regarded by the person who is its object as a challenge which justifies deception.

The Captive & The Fugitive

It is an empirical judgement [to say] that I perceive and judge an object with pleasure. But it is an a priori judgement [to say] that I find it beautiful, i.e. I attribute this satisfaction necessarily to every one.

Critique of Judgment

Ah,” said Magnus. “Nerd love. It is a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated.

City of Lost Souls

How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself...?

Drama Kings: The Men Who Drive Strong Women Crazy

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.

Davita's Harp

He copulated with a number of girls, but copulation was not the joy it ought to be. It was a mere relief of need, like evacuating, and he felt ashamed of it afterward because it involved another person as object.

The Dispossessed

A second advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they are not required to create a new object each time they're invoked.

Effective Java

The task is not to turn the world upside down but in a given place to do what, from the perspecive of reality, is necessary objectively and to really carry it out.

Ethics

Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.

The Force of Kindness: Change Your Life with Love & Compassion

I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed.

Frankenstein

MacKinnon captures this is in her succinct lesson on the grammar of pornography and male dominance: 'Man fucks woman; subject verb object.

Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

The Guermantes Way

What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by love. "Without love there would be no contemplation." Contemplation is a loving attainment of awareness. It is intuition of the belo...

Happiness and Contemplation

There is adventure in finding compelling stories and exploring complex issues in challenging environments, but there is also a responsibility to tell those stories accurately and objectively.

Human Geography: People and the Environment

A brick is a mythical object that empowers its handler and enables them to conquer the world and control the globe through secret occult knowledge. Just ask the Masons.


Brick and Blanket

A brick could be an object to measure your life against. Are you square, rigid, and inflexible? If yes, are you in the military? If no, why are you acting like a brick?


Brick and Blanket

Hannah: What's your plan? Claire: Go get him Hannah: Honey, that is not a plan. That's what we in the military call an objective.

Black Dawn

A brick could be used to cut things. The duller the object, the sharper the user has to be to make it work.


Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida