Inanimate Quotes
94 quotes by 89 authors
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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
— Russell Baker
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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
— Russell Baker
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our organs to those…
— Francois Magendie
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We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals.
— Linus Pauling
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Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far as is known,…
— Frederick Soddy
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Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ... Though to the layman, the world revealed by the chemist may…
— Henry Taube
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One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in other ways, too. Hoplophobia [fear…
— Jeff Cooper
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The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000).... It is big enough…
— Fred Hoyle
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A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its own; and it…
— Henry Van Dyke
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Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design and build a…
— Arthur Compton
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Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons. The possession of a good rifle,…
— Jeff Cooper
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Before I went to the Mess I made the excuse I wanted to get something out of my aeroplane, and climbed into the cockpit; I…
— Charles Rumney Samson
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My biggest fear? My biggest fear would be turning into an inanimate object.
— Darren Criss
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This is a slippery slope. In addition to that at what point are we going to be okay marrying inanimate objects? Can I marry this…
— Rebecca Kleefisch
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The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree that they are not even considered victims. They are not even considered at…
— Gary Yourofsky
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Inanimate objects are always correct and cannot, unfortunately, be reproached with anything. I have never observed a chair shift from one foot to another, or…
— Zbigniew Herbert
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The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they should…
— Ingrid Newkirk
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Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate rock and the…
— Toby Hemenway
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We take pleasure in truth and it amazes the eye of the viewer to see in stone, in canvas, or in wood an inanimate thing…
— Lodovico Dolce
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