#object

U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East. ↗

— Richard Armitage

#critical #east #flexibility #foreign #foreign policy

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#goal #however #i #i think #objectivity

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#object #something #take

Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport. ↗

— David Millar

#background #days #going #i #know

Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#object #original #original sin #sign #sin

Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top. ↗

— Vernon Jordan

#company #every #goals #i #incentive

I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear? ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#dared #hear #i #i wonder #me

Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#becoming #completely #contempt #cut #felt

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#everything #made #many #may #necessity

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#anything #architect #because #begin #building