Immutable Character Quotes

#1. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.

Judith Butler

#2. Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.

Lawrence Lessig

#3. Derek Bok's most recent book, Our Underachieving Colleges, is worth scrutinizing ... Bok is ... on solid ground in pointing out that our colleges underachieve in preparing students for citizenship.

George Leef

#4. As a woman with strong opinions talking about technology and politics is not always welcome in Germany. Nope, it's more like having a great cheerleader team behind me. People who follow my journey know I have a slightly colorful personality. The rest skipped out long ago.

Angela Merkel

#5. Regarding the accusations of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, deplorable and disgusting as those abuses are, they are not so harmful to the children as the grievous mental harm in bringing up the child Catholic in the first place.

Richard Dawkins

#6. The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare.

John Moody

#7. In times as turbulent as these, but also in the seeming humdrum of daily life, which always proved to be more meaningful and consequential in retrospect, each of us needed to rely on people of constant character and truths that were immutable.

Dean Koontz

#8. The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#9. No athlete, no scientist, no musician ever got better without focused practice, and there is no program you can download for that. It has to come from within.

Thomas L. Friedman

#10. My stomach aches a new. blasted inconvenience. What do young men have to mark their entry into adulthood? Trousers, that's what. Fine, new trousers. I despise absolutely everyone just now.

Libba Bray

#11. The winds are out of breath.

John Dryden

#12. Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.

Celine Dion

#13. When you're an assistant, you're executing the wishes of your boss.

Brad Goreski

#14. I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.

Aaron Eckhart

#15. He spoke about Africa in an unusual way. He spoke of Africa as though Africa was a sick child and he was the parent.

V.S. Naipaul

#16. If you take care of everything inside of you, God will take care of everything outside of you.

Kate McGahan

#17. Nor is the Gita a collection of do's and dont's. What is lawful for one may be unlawful for another. What may be permissible at one time, or in one place, may not be so at another time, and in another place. Desire for fruit is the only universal prohibition. Desirelessness is obligatory.

Mahatma Gandhi