Top 91 Immovable Quotes
#1. How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself ... ?
Dalma Heyn
#2. This Fudo Myo-o, whose name means "Immovable Wisdom King," is represented with a sword to cut through our ignorance and a rope to bind up our emotions
Miyamoto Musashi
#3. 58 b Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in c the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord d your labor is not in vain.
Anonymous
#4. Being steadfast and immovable with our heels in tar on the Lord's side of the line is the only strategy that works long-term against Lucifer.
Sheri L. Dew
#5. If you start embracing life's storms instead of hiding away from them, you'll stop fearing them all together; it is this way one becomes immovable.
Stefanie Schneider
#6. The system of consumerism may seem like an immovable fact of modern life. But it is not. That the system was manufactured suggests that we can reshape those forces to create healthier, more sustainable system with a more fulfilling goal than 'more stuff
Rachel Botsman
#7. A positive mental attitude is an irresistible force that knows no such thing as an immovable body.
Napoleon Hill
#8. She felt hot liquid anger suddenly cool and harden into something powerful and immovable.
Liane Moriarty
#9. The Spirit is like the steady axis of a wheel. If our attention reaches the immovable firm axis at the very centre of the wheel of our existence (which is constantly moving), we become enlightened by the Spirit, the source of inner peace, and reach a state of complete calm and self-knowledge.
Nirmala Srivastava
#10. As we become more spiritually mature and increasingly steadfast and immovable, we focus upon and strive to understand the fundamental and foundational doctrines of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.
David A. Bednar
#11. The awful pleasure of hurling himself against something so immovable.
Hanya Yanagihara
#12. There are three sorts of people in the world: Those who are immovable, people who don't get it, or don't want to do anything about it; there are people who are movable, people who see the need for change and are prepared to listen to it; and there are people who move, people who make things happen.
Benjamin Franklin
#13. But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win.
Melody Carlson
#14. It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.
Isaac Newton
#15. For the first time, we saw our world, not as a solid, immovable, kind of indestructible place, but as a very small, fragile-looking world just hanging against the blackness of space.
Brian Cox
#16. Daughters of the South were to their mothers what tributaries were to the main rivers they flowed into: their source of immovable strength.
Sarah Addison Allen
#17. You can stick to your immovable zero-tolerance rules, but I'm going to stick to the motto "There's hope until the last second'!
Mary Lindsey
#18. You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.
Nicolas Malebranche
#19. Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition ... Yet change is life's only constant.
Laurie Beth Jones
#20. Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.
Victor Hugo
#21. You could look through the windows at any one of these people, but you would only ever see what was there, not what wasn't. The losses and absences didn't show, despite so often being the immovable facts around which a life orbited.
Alice Adams
#22. An immovable object and an unstoppable force
don't exist in universe which ruled by single ruler.
Toba Beta
#23. Irresistible force. Immovable object. Choose the one you want to be, and do it.
Chloe Neill
#24. Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.
Isaac Newton
#25. The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.
Mahatma Gandhi
#26. There are three kinds of people: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those who move.
Benjamin Franklin
#27. The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.
Mick Ebeling
#28. I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only believe in poetry.
Anais Nin
#29. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
Jaimal Yogis
#30. How do you remain - steadfast and immovable during a trial of faith? You immerse yourself in the very thing that helped your core of faith: you exercise faith in Christ, you pray, you ponder the scriptures, you repent, you keep the commandments, and you serve others.
Neil L. Andersen
#31. The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable, behind and beyond the movable, the silent witness of all that happens.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#32. It's exhausting being cynical. You are trying to be an immovable, angry rock in the middle of a stream. But the stream will not move. It is you that will be worn down to dull silt.
Caitlin Moran
#33. What has pleased and continues to please, is likely to please again; hence are derived the rules of art, and on this immovable foundation they must ever stand.
Joshua Reynolds
#34. Perseverance is pushing against the immovable and the impossible until it breaks. The energy used to push is not physical, but spiritual, emotional and mental! Add pressure. Push! It will move.
Manuela George-Izunwa
#35. He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion.
A thick round wall of glass.
John Fowles
#36. Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#37. Faith in the atonement and intercession of Christ will keep us steadfast and immovable amid the temptations that press upon us in the church militant.
Ellen G. White
#38. Freemasonry is an institution founded on eternal reason and truth; whose deep basis is the civilization of mankind, and whose everlasting glory it is to have the immovable support of those two mighty pillars, science and morality.
George Washington
#39. Real patriotism embraces the wholly immovable belief that without freedom, the essence of the human soul and the life-breath of the human spirit is doomed to perish for lack of space and absence of light.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#40. We are enemies. Opposites. An immovable object and an unstoppable force.
Pippa DaCosta
#41. I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful and immovable - individual psychology.
George Packer
#42. When one practices discipline and moves from the beginner's territory to immovable wisdom, one makes a return and falls back to the level of the beginner.
Takuan Soho
#43. The Goddess of wealth is unsteady, and so is the life breath. 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
#44. The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
Isaac Newton
#45. I love you with an awful intensity. Sometimes when I just sit in a trance staring at a piece of paper, pen poised and immovable, longing for you and remembering you and imagining you. I love you horribly and beautifully.
Marlene Wagman-Geller
#47. Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.
Gustave Flaubert
#48. For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.
Plutarch
#49. Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal; the shock of beauty is when the irresistible force hits the immovable post.
G.K. Chesterton
#50. Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
Charles Baudelaire
#51. Archimedes, that he might transport the entire globe ... demanded only a point that was firm and immovable; so also, I shall be entitled to entertain the highest expectations, if I am fortunate enough to discover only one thing that is certain and indubitable.
Rene Descartes
#52. Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to one side to let the serious business of living proceed without distraction.
Robin Boyd
#53. I longed for release from whatever it was I was. But whatever I was lay hard and immovable in me, like bone; I would never be free of my own weight.
Steven Millhauser
#54. Today, he saw the true cost of two men's immovable wills. He saw what happened when men were forced to fight each other for months on end. It was not merely sickness of the body that plagued sieges, but sickness of the soul that turned men into monsters.
Kiersten White
#55. Disciples who are steadfast and immovable do not become fanatics or extremists, are not overzealous, and are not preoccupied with misguided gospel hobbies.
David A. Bednar
#56. The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on so immovable a basis.
Thomas Jefferson
#57. Seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armor, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency.
Raymond Chandler
#58. Someone asked: What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?
and i said(object): i give up..!!!
Paradox
#59. The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith.
Galileo Galilei
#60. A few years hence and he will be beneath the sod; but those cliffs will stand, as now, facing the ocean, incessantly lashed by its waves, yet unshaken, immovable; and other eyes will gaze on them for their brief day of life, and then they, too, will close.
Henry Parry Liddon
#61. Coagulate, v.: It is a dangerous thing, this thickening of affection; you want it to have weight, but not to be an immovable burden.
David Levithan
#62. Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?
Nicholas Sparks
#63. There are no immovable barriers to education.
Irina Bokova
#64. 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
#65. Finn regarded pesky little things like wedding bands, engagement rings, and jealous, hulking menfolk more as amusing challenges than immovable obstacles that could be hazardous to his health.
Jennifer Estep
#66. In this breaking-through, I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for I am then an immovable cause that moves all things.
Meister Eckhart
#67. Let your promises be few, and let them be immovable.
Ilya Atani
#68. The emotion of sex is an "irresistible force," against which there can be no such opposition as an "immovable body." When driven by this emotion, men become gifted with a super power for action.
Napoleon Hill
#69. Discipline must come through liberty ... We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.
Maria Montessori
#70. Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force.
Ogden Nash
#71. But time was a beast, a big, indolent immovable beast that wasn't interested in my efforts at hastening it in any direction.
Piper Kerman
#72. Mere physical sitting is not enough. You have to sit carefully and attentively. Let your body and breathing sit. Let your mind and emotions sit. Let your blood circulation sit. Let everything sit. Then your sitting becomes indestructible, immovable.
Taizan Maezumi
#73. 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
#74. All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Benjamin Franklin
#75. Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
Laurence J. Peter
#77. Mimi was a human bulldozer, and when she met a seemingly immovable object, she just lowered her blade and revved her engine higher.
Stephen King
#78. Dudjom Rinpoche has said, "The point of patience is to train so that our altruistic attitude is immovable and irrepressible in the face of those who hurt us with their ingratitude and so forth.
Lodro Rinzler
#79. Visigoth and Gaul, politics and plague. She fought on, struggling in tandem with antiquated interpretations and outmoded explanations, wondering at the senselessness of something so strong, so powerful, so immovable fading from history, disappearing, once and for all time, into shadow and dust.
Fiddles McMonkeypants
#80. Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not, With the slightest push - in just the right place - it can be tipped.
Malcolm Gladwell
#81. When you decide to be the immovable object standing in front of the unstoppable force, you'd better pray that you're right about being immovable, and they're wrong about being unstoppable.' 'Otherwise, you'll wind up like a bug on a windshield.
Seanan McGuire
#82. Being like a rock wall" is when a master of martial arts suddenly becomes like a rock wall, inaccessible to anything at all, immovable.
Miyamoto Musashi
#83. Reason was nowhere, time was an immovable object nailed high on the wall, except where the world kept shop.
Mae West
#84. No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.
Walter Savage Landor
#85. What has been is immovable and unchanging; what will be is full of infinite possibilities - some more likely than others. Nothing is certain until it happens.
Laura Thalassa
#86. It appeared that his sister, usually an irresistible force, had finally met a sufficiently immovable object.
Stephanie Laurens
#87. A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation
H.L. Mencken
#88. 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.
Coleman Young
#89. To analyze or assess a person's failings or deficiencies,' he declared to himself, 'is useless, not because such blemishes are immovable, but because they affect the mass of beholders in diverse ways. Different minds perceive utterly variant figures in the same being.
A.E. Coppard
#90. In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be an irrepressible optimist because of his immovable faith in the ultimate victory of Truth, which is God.
Mahatma Gandhi
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