Quotes of Immutable - somelinesforyou

“ War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim. ”

- Herman Melville

“ Change alone is unchanging. ”

- Heraclitus

“ There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way. ”

- Hugh Leonard

“ It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality. ”

- Harold Sydney Geneen

“ Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immutable law. ”

- James Baldwin

“ Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below. ”

- Bhagavad Gita

“ Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them. ”

- Owen Felltham

“ It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off. ”

- Ralph J. Cudworth

“ There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success. ”

- Philip Knight

“ The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this double nature of the visible and invisible world — to the profound longing for the latter, coupled with the feeling of the sweet necessity for the former, we owe all sound and logical systems of philosophy, truly based on the immutable principles of our nature, just as from the same source arise the most senseless enthusiasms. ”

- Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

“ From our earliest hour we have been taught that the thought of the heart, the shaping of the rain-cloud, the amount of wool that grows on a sheep's back, the length of a drought, and the growing of the corn, depend on nothing that moves immutable, at the heart of all things; but on the changeable will of a changeable being, whom our prayers can alter… ”

- Olive Schreiner

“ Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perhaps there are some other unchangeable differences; probably there are a number of irrelevant differences. But it is clear that until social expectations for men and women are equal, until we provide equal respect for both sexes, answers to this question will simply reflect our prejudices. ”

- Naomi Weisstein

“ After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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