Quotes about immovable (16 Quotes)

Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force.

Those who seek to acquire steadiness of faith must first acquire the strength to bear grief and pain, insult and injury. The succession of joy and grief must help confirm the faith and make it immovable. That alone can evidence true devotion.

FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. In the Roman Catholic Church feasts are movable and immovable, but the celebrants are uniformly immovable until they are full. In their earliest development these entertainments took the form of feasts for the dead such were held by the Greeks, under the name Nemeseia, by the Aztecs and Peruvians, as in modern times they are popular with the Chinese though it is believed that the ancient dead, like the modern, were light eaters. Among the many feasts of the Romans was the Novemdiale, which was held, according to Livy, whenever stones fell from heaven.

As he watched, he had an immovable expression on his face, composed but alert, as if someone were giving him directions to an unknown destination.

When my external environment is clouded in doubt and despair ... when the tempests of destruction are making my dreams of success tremble like the topmost spar of a helpless shipwhen the skies seem to hold the closing ruin of all my fondest hopes, my mind, superior amid the outrages of this material world, rests upon the solid, immovable foundation of Faith. There is nothing in myself, but all is in my Master.

I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move.

A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire. Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd, At certain revolutions all the damn'd Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes,extremes by change more fierce From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round, Periods of time thence hurried back to fire.

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.

Discipline must come through liberty.... We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silentas a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

Over a century after the publication of the Copernican system, one of England's most renowned intellectual luminaries was still unconvinced 'Nevertheless, in the system of Copernicus there are found many and great inconveniences for both the loading of the earth with a triple motion is very incommodious, and the separation of the sun from the company of the planets, with which it has so many passions in common, is likewise a difficulty, and the introduction of so much immobility in nature, by representing the sun and stars as immovable, especially being of all bodies the highest and most radiant, and making the moon revolve about the earth in an epicycle, and some other assumptions of his, are the speculations of one who cares not what fictions he introduces into nature, provided his calculations answer.'

The rain water enlivens all living beings of the earth both movable (insects, animals, humans, etc.) and immovable (plants, trees, etc.), and then returns to the ocean it value multiplied a million fold.

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Snobbery exists in all areas of life, not least literary criticism. By snobbery I mean, any method of judging someone or something whereby you latch on to one or two features about themit, and use these to come to a definitive, immovable judgement. In intellectual matters, the snob will often take the external features of a work as a guide to its value.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.