Top 1200 Small Objects Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Objects and their manufacture are inseparable, you understand a product if you understand how it's made.

Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

Every small wrong, every minor act of cruelty, every act of petty bullying was symbolic of a greater wrong. And if we ignored these small things, then did it not blunt our outrage over the larger wrongs?

When illiberal feminists aren't delegitimizing female dissenters from their worldview as fake women, they are portraying them in such a hyper-sexualized way that they are reduced to nonhuman objects.

Smart property might be created by embedding smart contracts in physical objects.

I have a bias, and I don't deny that. But it's not so much an emotional attachment with objects that we study: it's a point of view based on the evidence. We simply know more about Enceladus.

The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.

The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history

We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.

I did a small, small thing in Quiz Show, where I was really just a glorified extra. But, you know, New York actor, few days on a film set: Great! I was probably making subway fare on the play that I was doing at the time. I always think of The Underneath as the first film that I ever did.

The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.

Rich dad said it this way, 'Big people have big dreams and small people have small dreams. If you want to change who you are, begin by changing the size of your dreams.'

I look at ordinary objects, and I see things that other people don't see. That's why I'm a photographer.

One cannot create happiness with beautiful objects, but one can spoil quite a lot of happiness with bad ones

If you and I got on an airplane, you're going to L.A., Los Angeles, and I'm going to Senegal, we get there about the same time. The world is just that small. So a world that is so tightly bound by science and technology and now Internet and the web page, that world is too small for bullies. It has no room in that world for arrogance.

I optioned a book called "Rare Objects" by Kathleen Tessaro and I'm adapting it . It takes place in the 1930s and it's about two women and that's what I'm working on to direct.

My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.

He was weeping. Although 'weeping' really is to small a word for the activity the kind had undertaken. Tears were cascading from his eyes. A small puddle had formed at his feet. I am not exaggerating. The king, it seemed, was intent on crying himself a river.

Our solar system is actually a wild frontier, teeming with different, diverse places: planets and moons, millions of objects of ice and rock.

When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in chaos - as it does for a dog.

My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history.

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

Objects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values.

For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my time were small formerly.

I love being part of huge mega blockbusters, and I love being a part of small independent films and small stage.

I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism, that's corporate welfare.

Think of the universal substance, of which thou has a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has been assigned to thee; and of that which is fixed by destiny, and how small a part of it thou art

I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning.

If you're a devoted collector of design, you seek out objects you can love to live with but also live in.

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

You can pray while you work. Work doesn't stop prayer and prayer doesn't stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers.

It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us.

I don't only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.

Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

Whenever I organize or participate in public protest I get really worried that it will just suck, be really small, embarrassing, and the media will laugh at me. Oftentimes, it is really small and most of the time the media laughs at us.

Women run the small country called Home, millions of us do it in our spare time, and no one who doesn't run that small country really knows what it feels like in the dead of night when task lists jitter like tickertape through your seething brain.

she’s not pretty, that word is too small. She is not like the girls I used to stare at, all bend and curve and softness. She is small but strong, and her bright eyes demand attention. Looking at her is like waking up.

The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.

I love grand scale. One of the things that everybody mentions is that my novels are beautiful objects in the sense that the elements of the actual book are being extruded and re-contextualized.

When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. I’d like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that response in living things, let alone inanimate objects.

Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful we project meaning onto it in daily life.

Objects always meet your obsession. Once you have an obsession, you step on it at every corner.

There is no conclusive proof of Unidentified Flying Objects flying over India-China border.

In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.

It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects.

I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.

For a house to be successful, the objects in it must communicate with one another, respond to and balance one another

The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.

You step forward and make it real for a start. You choose a sensible moment in history. Funnily enough, England was bankrupt and the moment is the death of Richard The Lionheart... Richard takes an arrow in the neck collecting a small debt from a small castle on his way home from the Crusades because he's penniless.

Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design.

Air Force interceptors still pursue Unidentified Flying Objects as a matter of national security to this country and to determine technical aspects involved.

I believe the best way to help our small businesses is not only through small-business loans, which we have increased since I've been the president of the United States, but to unbundle government contracts so people have a chance to be able to bid and receive a contract to help get their business going.

Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at the same small stove, squeezing past each other on the narrow stairs, shaving in front of the same small bathroom mirror, constantly jogging, jostling, bumping against each other’s bodies by mistake or on purpose, sensually, aggressively, awkwardly, impatiently, in rage or in love – think what deep though invisible tracks they must leave, everywhere, behind them!

Let your personality and passions shine through in the objects you choose to display in your home.