Inanimate Quotes
94 quotes by 86 authors
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Encompass with your mercy and compassion all animals and creatures. Do not say, "this is inanimate and has no awareness." Indeed, it does; it is…
— Ibn Ata Allah
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Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively civilised…
— George Orwell
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The great controversy is ended. Sin and sinners are no more. The entire universe is clean. One pulse of harmony and gladness beats through the…
— Ellen G. White
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My paintings are loosely based on meta narratives. The pictures float in and out of pictorial genres. Still life's become personified, portraits become events, and…
— Dana Schutz
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The similarities among animals that are on the surface very different are no coincidence. In fact, animal locomotion is no different than other flows, animate…
— Adrian Bejan
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That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs.…
— Pema Chodron
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As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly “inert†letters on the page now speak to…
— David Abram
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There is no such thing as inanimate matter...there is God or divinity in all matter and it is all living energy.
— Jay DeFeo
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We Indians do not teach that there is only one god. We know that everything has power, including the most inanimate, inconsequential things. Stones have…
— Russell Means
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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
— William Dean Howells
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I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the stones, the stars, was enveloped…
— Hayden Carruth
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I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.
— Philip Treacy
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The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root.
— Loren Eiseley
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If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man…
— William Jennings Bryan
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In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their…
— Joseph de Maistre
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The animate and inanimate creation all contribute to the true worship of God. All of creation must worship at whatever level of sentience they possess.…
— Ed Buckner
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We learn that those around us are an extension of ourselves, both animate and inanimate. All things have a life and form. We learn to…
— Frederick Lenz
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What really matters when facing a challenge? What matters is learning. You want to test yourself, throw yourself into something outside your comfort zone and…
— Arno Hintjens
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Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature, that you…
— John Galt
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