Inanimate Objects Quotes
No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.
Michael Polanyi (1974). “Scientific thought and social reality: essays”, Intl Universities Pr Inc
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.147
Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.
Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.172, Edith Wharton
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
William Dean Howells, Edwin Harrison Cady (1983). “A Selected Edition of W. D. Howells”
George Orwell (2016). “Fifty Essays (George Orwell) (Literary Thoughts Edition)”, p.502, epubli
Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.147, Simon and Schuster
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.149, Princeton University Press
"The Plot Against People," The New York Times, June 18, 1968.
David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”
Susan Hill (2010). “Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home”, p.2, Profile Books
Catherine Ponder “The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity”, Lulu.com
A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.
William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.58