Inanimate Quotes

94 Inanimate quotes by 86 unique authors

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
I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes… — Amy Sedaris
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There is no such thing as inanimate matter...there is God or divinity in all matter and it is all living energy. — Jay DeFeo
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
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. — William Dean Howells

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