Sentence examples for object of life from inspiring English sources

The great object of life is sensation - to feel that we exist, even if in pain.

Possessions may not be the object of life, but life without objects would be a lot less interesting.

Orwell suspected Koestler of believing that happiness is the object of life (not something that Orwell ever thought), and he concluded that this made him, despite his anti-totalitarianism, a utopian.

For those of us who love dogs in the same way other people love people (only we love dogs a bit more), the object of life is simple: a dog of one's own.

At a reception in his honour in his later years he summed up his philosophy: "I have endeavoured to remember that the object of life is to do good".

"Dr. Bharucha exemplifies Peter Cooper's mandate that 'The object of life is to do good,' " said Mark L. Epstein, chairman of the Cooper Union board of trustees, referring to the founder of the college.

They're looking for the usual stuff: secret messages, hidden passageways, an object of life-or-death importance.

Delivering the Warhol homily, he said the artist could "take the very simple and ordinary objects of life and make them truly extraordinary".

Stopping points in craggy foothills are littered with the objects of life on the move: hundreds of empty water bottles; shirts and pants and underwear, discarded in the summer heat; teddy bears and and other toys dropped to the ground.

A Texas Confederate officer wrote to his wife in 1864: "I am sick of war" and of "the separation from the dearest objects of life," his wife and children, but "were the contest again just commenced I would willingly undergo it again for the sake of … our country's independence and [our children's] liberty".

All the "partial objects" of life sciences research (chromosomes, ribosomes, membrane, lipids, and so on) are allocated a functional place within the synthetic cell as a holistic, all-encompassing, pantheon-like assembly.