Object

Famous quotes containing the word object:

“though mean
Our object and inglorious, yet the end
Was not ignoble.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

“To quarrel with the uncertainty that besets us in intellectual affairs would be about as reasonable as to object to live one’s life with due thought for the morrow because no man can be sure he will alive an hour hence.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)