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Quotes About Animate

Yawe—the animate to be. I am, you are, s/he is. To speak of those possessed with life and spirit we must say yawe. By what linguistic confluence do Yahweh of the Old Testament and yawe of the New World both fall from the mouths of the reverent?
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
The makers if the world understood.a world of being, full of unseen energies that animate everything
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.
~ allama iqbal
Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.
~ William Bernbach
How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.
~ Samuel Johnson
He became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it.
~ John Connolly
What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.
~ Dean Koontz, Dead and Alive
Things have a life of their own. It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The raising to life of all animate beings at the resurrection of the dead can be no more difficult for Divine Power than restoring to life a fly in the spring, heavy with the death-stained sleep of winter.
~ Said Nursi
Since it's clear then that what sets itself in motion is eternal, who could fail to attribute such a nature to the soul. Anything set in motion by external impetus is inanimate; what is animate moves by its own interior impulse. This is the nature and power of soul. And because it is the one thing out of all that sets itself in motion, then surely it was never born and will last forever.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.
~ Anne Rice
We must dedicate ourselves to the fundamental principles of liberty and justice that animate our laws and our governance.
~ Cori Bush
Lebendiges! Was nützt der tote Kram!
~ Georg Buchner
a novelist...we dream non-living characters and animate them with out words...
~ Marianne Wiggins
May the cheering contemplation of the glorious hope set before us—support and animate us to improve our short interval on earth, and fill us with a holy ambition of shining as lights in this evil world, to the praise and glory of His grace—who has called us out of darkness, into His glorious light!
~ John Newton
Q: What genres do you especially enjoy reading? And which do you avoid? A: I love reading anything about gigantic animate blobs of molten iron who secretly long to be concert pianists. It's not a particularly well-populated genre, but in particular I'd mention, "Grog, Who Loved Chopin," as well as the somewhat derivative "Clom, Big Fan of Mozart.
~ George Saunders
How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.
~ Markus Zusak
How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.
~ Markus Zusak
Woher weiß man, ob etwas lebendig ist? Man schaut nach, ob es atmet.
~ Markus Zusak
How do you tell if someone is alive? You check for breathing.
~ Markus Zusak
Nos habitat, non tartara, sed nee sider coeli: Spiritus, in nobis qui viget, illafacit.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
It's the ultimate theater. The stakes are money, the mother's milk of politics, great heaping mountains of it. And the actors are politicians, without a doubt the lowest form of animate life. Charlatans, mountebanks, liars, hypocrites—they'd cut off your nuts for another term in office, or even a favorable article in a hometown newspaper.
~ Stephen Coonts
became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley