Inanimate Quotes

94 quotes by 86 authors

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
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
I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life. — Mike Mills
Never fight an inanimate object. — P.J. O'Rourke
Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object. — Conor Oberst
When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life. — Mitt Romney
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
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
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
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
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
I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself. — David Sedaris
...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
When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. Iâ€™d like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that response… — Kelley Armstrong
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
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
Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them. — Cassandra Clare
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
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
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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