Inanimate Quotes
94 quotes by 86 authors
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Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the…
— Charles Krauthammer
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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its…
— Orison Swett Marden
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I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.
— Mike Mills
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Never fight an inanimate object.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.
— Conor Oberst
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When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.
— Mitt Romney
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I panicked when my son, Jett, stopped eating baby food. He's only two, but his food vocabulary is fantastic. He likes my baked tilapia and…
— Jill Scott
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No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact…
— Tom Wolfe
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After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the…
— Wallace Stevens
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Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations,…
— Joseph Conrad
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The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the…
— Erich Fromm
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I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.
— David Sedaris
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...I also know - and this won't alter the course of history or your personal view of me - that you will die with a…
— Che Guevara
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When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. I’d like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that response…
— Kelley Armstrong
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Vitamins ruined my life. Not that there was much left to ruin, but still. I know that blaming vitamins for my horrible life sounds strange.…
— Elizabeth Scott
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It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became…
— Virginia Woolf
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Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.
— Cassandra Clare
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I've got the Mark of Cain," said Simon. "That means nothing can kill me, right?" "You can kill yourself," Magnus said, somewhat unhelpfully. "As far…
— Cassandra Clare
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I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get…
— Frederick Douglass
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A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie…
— Bertrand Russell
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