The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
Karl Von Clausewitz

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.
Charles Babbage

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
Honore De Balzac

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
Hermann Hesse

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.
Chuck Close

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.
Graham Chapman

An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.
Queen Victoria

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.
William Ames

Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.
William Ames

The first one was quite cheap, but that was expensive for us. For my folks to buy on the Never Never. It was quite, you know, a rare object to have and I gained quite a lot of status by having this.
Eric Clapton

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
Laurence J. Peter

The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.
Simon Cowell

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
Alexander Solzehnitsyn

My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.
Les Dawson

As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am.
Alan Ladd

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
Robert Brault