Immovable Quotes

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

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. - Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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. - Ethan A. Hitchcock

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. - Chanakya

The mind is uncontrollable; how rare are those who subdue it. Those who move the immovable become pure. - Atharva Veda

The duration of life is uncertain, and the place of habitation is uncertain; but in all this inconsistent world religious merit alone is immovable. - Chanakya

That's the Tank Dog. The Big Tank. The immovable object, running people over, bowling them over. - Hollis Thomas

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. - Laurence J. Peter

Stroud and Henderson, thank god I don't have to go up against them. They're just huge. They're big and they're immovable objects in there. They spill everything to the linebackers. Mike Peterson leads the team in tackles because he's a great player. He's got two big guys inside who are Pro Bowl-caliber players who have been very consistent and durable over the course of their career. - Tom Brady

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 them/it, 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. - Alain De Botton