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Letter "O" » objects
«Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
attaching, inner world, objects
«Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.»
Author: Herbert Spencer
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
ardently, gained, objects, pursue, sources, unexpected
«My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.»
Author: Les Dawson
| About:
Men,
Sex,
Women
| Keywords:
My Wife, object, objects, sex, sex object, wife
«Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive»
Author: Leslie McIntyre
| About:
Being a Woman,
Women
| Keywords:
better-looking, geneticist, good-tempered, Good Looking, good temper, groom, groomed, grooming, grooms, manages, objects, Sculptor, sculptors, tempered, unaggressive
«Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.»
Author: Tom Stoppard
(Playwright)
| About:
Imagination,
Skill
| Keywords:
baskets, craftsmanship, modern art, objects, picnic, picnicking, picnics, skill, such as, wickerwork
«That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.»
Author: Denis Waitley
(Author, Speaker)
| Keywords:
accumulates, accumulating, all-time, dust, goodness, material, objects, time to come, turn to
«There are some minds like either convex or concave mirrors, which represent objects such as they receive them, but never receive them as they are»
«Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.»
«The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
accomplished, acting, Creative minds, instinct, objects, plays, The Creation, the play
«My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.»
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