Quotes About Living And Nonliving Things

#1. She spoke Basque, which is a language which rarely makes any impression upon the brains of any other race, so that a man may hear it as often and as long as he likes, but never afterwards be able to recall a single syllable of it.

Susanna Clarke

#2. One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living.

Ayn Rand

#3. The guru is not someone who is confined to the body. When there is selfless love for the guru, we will be able to see him not only in his body but in every living and nonliving thing in this world. Learn to see everything as the guru's body and to serve them accordingly.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#4. Given the reality of limited time and resources, best practices provide a valuable, low risk, default starting point.

Chad White

#5. The seams, the laminae between the various worlds the past present and future as well as the living and the nonliving may not be as distinct and clear-cut as we have been taught or as our somewhat arbitrary clocks and calendars have led us to believe.

Rick Bass

#6. The mind gathers its grain in all fields, storing it against a time of need, then suddenly it bursts into awareness, which men call inspiration or second sight or a gift.

Louis L'Amour

#7. That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty - their impermanence.

Pamela Moore

#8. One of the best parts of a woman's body is that curve, and I go a little bit higher on all of my things to show off the best part of the hourglass.

Melissa McCarthy

#9. Escape
from the power of the hunting pack,
and to know that wisdom is best
and beauty
sheer holiness.

Hilda Doolittle

#10. God doesn't wait for us to get ourselves polished, shined, proper, and without blemish - God comes to us and meets us and blesses us while we are still in the middle of the mess we created.

Rob Bell

#11. Tektology was the first attempt in the history of science to arrive at a systematic formulation of the principles of organization operating in living and nonliving systems.

Fritjof Capra

#12. Nature draws no line between living and nonliving.

K. Eric Drexler

#13. There is no clear distinction anywhere on the Earth's surface between living and nonliving matter. There is merely a hierarchy of intensity going from the 'material' environment of the rocks and the atmosphere to the living cells.

James Lovelock

#14. I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

Anna Quindlen

#15. The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of a nonliving brain - although it may think it can - the finite mind cannot grasp the infinite.

Stephen King

#16. But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.

Leslie Marmon Silko

#17. The nonliving universe is as diverse and as dynamic as the living universe, and is also dominated by patterns of organization that are not yet understood.

Freeman Dyson

#18. We are all connected. The living to the nonliving, as the nonliving to the living. All things in all directions in all times. It is only in the physical dimension that we have limitations. (The membrane between us is thinner than you think.)

Garth Stein

#19. For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#20. Leaving the vehicle, its slaghtered passengers, and another small piece of my humanity behind.

Julie Kagawa