#inanimate

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#exercise #inanimate #matter #war #will

Never fight an inanimate object. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#fight #inanimate #never #object

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#inanimate #me #mortality #most #terrible

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#egg #goes #inanimate #life #something

Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #inanimate #inanimate-objects #interpretation #literature

I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything. ↗

— Peter Benchley

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Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material. ↗

— Michael Behe

#easily #inanimate #life #material #produced

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#animate #clouds #crystal #every #existence

No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#determined #ever #fully #inanimate #laws

I sat at a table in my shadowy kitchen, staring down a bottle of Boone's Farm Hard Lemonade, when a magic fluctuation hit. My wards shivered and died, leaving my home stripped of its defenses. The TV flared into life, unnaturally loud in the empty house. I raised my eyebrow at the bottle and bet it that another urgent bulletin was on. The bottle lost. "Urgent bulletin!" Margaret Chang announced. "The Attorney General advises all citizens that any attempt at summoning or other activities resulting in the appearance of a supernaturally powerful being can be hazardous to yourself and to other citizens." "No shit," I told the bottle. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#change