I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Joseph Addison
An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
Samuel Alexander
Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the... →
An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being... →
For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or... →
Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly... →
People who are pierced should not be snickered at, should not become the object of ridicule, should not be singled out for special and uneven and... →
Gloria Allred
In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.
Chris Van Allsburg
Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.
Washington Allston