#object

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#feelings #good #good music #motivated #mysterious

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#day #getting #late #little #little bit

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#always #being #being busy #busy #does

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#cannot #creation #frailty #god #his

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ↗

— George Eliot

#bear #jealousy #lose #love #more

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort. ↗

— Epictetus

#conducive #dangerous #dangerous thing #difficult #effort

People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let's say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK? ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#always #am #art #artist #clearly

I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians. ↗

— James Welch

#always #being #called #happened #i

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us. ↗

— Richard Whately

#close #human #judgment #law #most

If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay. ↗

— Wayne White

#because #deadline #draft #essentially #hell