Colonel Cathcart was impervious to absolutes. He could measure his own progress only in relationship to others, and his idea of excellence was to do something at least as well as all the men his own age who were doing the same thing even better.
Quotes about impervious (16 Quotes)
No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.
DepthX will get its first test in 2007 at the source of its inspiration, Sistema Zacatn, which happens to be a neat analog for Europa. Clearly, the flooded limestone sinkhole isn't as cold as Europa's ocean, but it can be incredibly toxic, extends to unknown depths, and has proven impervious to humans. (The world's premier cave diver, Sheck Exley - who happened to be a friend of Stone's - died in Zacatn in 1994.) We know that life is there within the top 40 meters or so, ... Below that, no one knows what's there.
The impervious cover question somehow brings out the challenge to our water quality authority.
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.
With development, you get impervious surfaces like pavement and roofs of houses, ... This really relates to water quality because it increases the speed in which surface water (containing sediment) runs off and gets into the waterways.
It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
Harper has been able to make himself more or less impervious to the attack that we have seen to this point and has been able to defuse the notion that winning is somehow going to be horrendous for the nation.
The different sorts of creative legal challenges had already occurred, and so it was drafted in a way to make it impervious to those kinds of attacks.
What America has succeeded in creating is not an economy impervious to shocks, but merely one which enables their consequences to be postponed to a later date.
I think right now the players feel they're impervious, that they've got age on their side. But no matter how big and strong and fast they are, they can't outrun disease.
Perhaps this borrowing to create cash flow ... The personal 'savings' rate has fallen to a new all time record low of minus 6. Rather than curtailing consumption, Americans have merely responded to higher gas prices by borrowing more money. Therefore, the immediate damage isn't reduced consumption by increased debt. As a result, the actual damage is only being postponed, but with even greater consequences for future consumption, as not only will Americans be required to pay more for energy tomorrow, they will have to pay interest and principal associated with today's purchases as well. What America has succeeded in creating is not an economy impervious to 'shocks,' but merely one which enables their consequences to be postponed to a later date. Unfortunately, that date may have finally arrived.
Bush's aides made the point that not everyone reads the Washington Post and the New York Times. Rather, the Bush people were like antimatter rather than having the normal inclination to feed their egos by garnering attention, they had the opposite orientation and were nearly impervious to press criticism.
Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.