But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object. – Gabriel Marcel
A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object. – Howard Hodgkin
We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter. – Howard Rheingold
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction. – John Dewey
Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me. – Alberto Giacometti
If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself. – Max Stirner
I’m a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit. – Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
What I object to the current government intervention in so-called ‘solving the crisis’, they haven’t solved anything. They’ve just postponed it. – Marc Faber
Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. – Maya Angelou
Obsidian was caused by volcanoes, an eruption of steam and gas so furious that it melted the earth itself into this hard, shiny object. – Kathi Appelt
