Inanimate Quotes

94 quotes by 89 authors

Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring — Nelly Furtado
People say to you, 'you've changed', or something like that, well, I hope, for the sake of God, that you have changed, because I don't… — Hamza Yusuf
A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential… — Susan Hill
When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its… — C.S. Lewis
Bottom line: Outbursts of anger - including screaming, throwing things, banging inanimate objects, slamming doors, squealing tires, stomping around, making threats, shoving, restraining, cornering, or… — Paul the Apostle
I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything. — Peter Benchley
No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry. — Michael Polanyi
Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material. — Michael Behe
English is so hierarchical. In Cree, we don't have animate-inanimate comparisons between things. Animals have souls that are equal to ours. Rocks have souls, trees… — Tomson Highway
A culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, and can be manipulated by whatever creative design humans can foist… — Joel Salatin
The State is not, as many political scientists would make it, an inanimate thing; it consists of people, human beings, each of whom operates under… — Frank Chodorov
Farm animals are just as interesting and intelligent as the dogs and cats who we know a bit betterYet they are treated by the meat… — Emily Deschanel
I wasn't into Tolkien at school really. But the story is timeless, the themes that it touches on are contained in cultures all around the… — Billy Boyd
Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather an inanimate vegetable, draws in aethereal breath for its dayly refreshment and vitall ferment and transpires… — Isaac Newton
We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any sense unreal, insubstantial,… — Medard Boss
The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes in programs or… — Richard E. Pattis
There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each… — Aristotle
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur;… — Orison Swett Marden
The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces… — Richard Reti
Iâ€™ve named everything that Iâ€™ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes… — Amy Sedaris

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