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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

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”

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

"'This film is unmarketable'". Interview with Pascal Wyse, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2005.

Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.

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

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