Quotessence
Home / Topics / Impervious Quotes

Impervious Quotes

Browse 60 quotes about Impervious.

Related topics

MenPeople

Impervious Quotes

“Women emerging like aliens in a hesitant future, in a men’s world with impervious codes, may feel like dots in an uncharted territory. Discovering the crucial points, which don't line up with the unbearability of reality, may be a key to the right compass in life. ( "Terra incognita")”

LifeRealityWomenFutureAliensDiscoveringCompassEmergingFeelDotsKeyHesitantImperviousUncharted TerritoryCodesMen S WorldTerra IncognitaCrucial PointsLine UpUnbearability
Author:Erik Pevernagie
Create image

“That the machine of Heaven is not a hard and impervious body full of various real spheres, as up to now has been believed by most people. It will be proved that it extends everywhere, most fluid and simple, and nowhere presents obstacles as was formerly held, the circuits of the Planets being wholly free and without the labour and whirling round of any real spheres at all, being divinely governed under a given law.”

PeopleHas BeensRealHardBodyLawScienceGivenHeavenSimplePlanetsMachinesRoundsVariousObstaclesLabourSpheresFluidCircuitsImpervious
Author:Tycho Brahe
Create image

“Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words and thoughts into a language that was formed without and before him and which is impervious to his power. Entering the game, as it were, whether of belonging to a nation or of using a language, a man enters arrangements which it does not fall to him to determine, but only to learn and respect the rules.”

MenDoeFallGamesLanguageNationsSocialFitDetermineBelongingArrangementsEnteringSocial LifeImpervious
Author:Alain Finkielkraut
Create image

“However much the creationist leaders might hammer away at their scientific and philosophical points, they would be helpless and a laughing-stock if that were all they had. It is religion that recruits their squadrons. Tens of millions of Americans, who neither know nor understand the actual arguments for - of even against - evolution, march in the army of the night, their Bibles held high. And they are a strong and frightening force, impervious to, and immunized against, the feeble lance of mere reason.”

IfsKnowsReasonMightWould BeNightStrongForceLeaderMillionsLaughingEvolutionArgumentArmyPhilosophicalMereMarchFrighteningHelplessHammersRecruitImperviousCreationist
Author:Isaac Asimov
Create image

“It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered, before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide, and, apparently, an impervious boundary of forests, severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict.”

BookWarAmericaOpportunitySidesStruggleDangerMonthsConflictMountainEnglandPossessionWideBoundariesForestsFranceFeaturesStreamsWildernessPeculiarHostQuestsToilHostileRapidsExhibitsProvincesNorth AmericaAdverseHardyRuggedImperviousColonistsFrance And England
Author:James F. Cooper
Create image

“I think we've produced a stronger prohibition on real racism, while maintaining freedom of speech in ordinary public discussion. So I'm very comfortable with where we're at. We're not dogmatic or impervious to a further argument, that's why we released it as an exposure draft rather than simply releasing it straight into the parliament.”

ThinkingRealSpeechComfortableRacismOrdinaryArgumentStrongerDiscussionFreedom Of SpeechParliamentExposureMaintainingProhibitionDogmaticImpervious
Author:Tony Abbott
Create image

“Take a shot in front of D.L. Probing for a vein in my dirty bare foot... Junkies have no shame... They are impervious to the repugnance of others. It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido... The junky's shame disappears with his nonsexual sociability which is also dependent on libido.”

IfsFeetFrontsShotsShameDisappearAbsenceDirtyDependentVeinsDoubtfulJunkieSociabilityImperviousProbingBare FeetLibido
Book:Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Create image

“Why do people think the spiritual life demands withdrawal from the ordinary? Because they've been taught, at least by implication, that the physical is a block to the spiritual. When we assume that the spiritual, unlike the physical, is impervious to corrosion, then we assume that all things material are not to be honored. But the fact of the matter is, the material is the vehicle of the spiritual.”

PeopleThinkingMatterFactsSpiritualTaughtMaterialsDemandOrdinaryAll ThingsAssumingBlockSpiritual LifeVehicleHonoredImplicationsWithdrawalImpervious
Author:Joan D. Chittister
Create image

“Research at the subatomic quantum level reveals an invisible connection between all particles and all members of a given species. This oneness is being demonstrated in remarkable scientific discoveries. The findings show that physical distance, what we think of as empty space, does not preclude a connection by invisible forces. Obviously there exist invisible connections between our thoughts and our actions. We do not deny this, even though the connection is impervious to our senses.”

ThinkingDoeShowsActionGivenForceSpaceLevelsMembersFindingsResearchDiscoveryEmptyConnectionsDistanceSpeciesDenySensesInvisibleOnenessRemarkableQuantumOur ThoughtsOur ActionsParticlesEmpty SpaceScientific DiscoveryImpervious
Author:Wayne Dyer
Create image

“No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.”

MenPainWonderHabitSuperficialIncessantlyImpervious
Book:The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Create image

“And often the worst thing wasn't the victims--they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. The worst thing was those who loved them and survived them. Often the walking dead from now on, shell-shocked, hearts ruptured, stumbling through the remainder of their lives without anything left inside of them but blood and organs, impervious to pain, having learned nothing except that the worst things did, in fact, sometimes happen. (Mystic River)”

HeartSometimesFactsHappensPainLeftBloodWorstWalkingRiversVictimOrgansShellsSurvivedWorst ThingsShockedMysticStumblingImperviousWalking Dead
Author:Dennis Lehane
Create image

“God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.”

IfsMenWayHelpingScienceFatherTeacherTeachingSonGeniusFellowsRaysSensibilityLightingSkullsGod HelpInaccessibleFractureImpervious
Book:The Prose Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Letters and Correspondence, Literary and Critical, and Amatory Epistles Including Letters to Clarinda, &c., &c
Create image

“Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side! I mean those poets and painters, singers and musicians, novelists and playwrights who speak to the world in a way that is impervious to assault because they wage the battle for justice in a sphere which is unreachable by the dullness of ordinary political discourse.”

WorldWayMeanRememberPoliticalSpiritArtistThreeSpeakSidesJusticeFourPoetBattleMusicianOrdinarySingersPainterLiftsNovelistsSpheresDiscourseAssaultDiscouragedPlaywrightTuesdayDullnessImperviousPolitical DiscourseUnreachable
Book:The Historic Unfulfilled Promise
Create image

“If a trade deficit is determined solely by rates of savings and investment, then the U.S. trade deficit will be impervious to a get-tough trade policy. Slapping higher tariffs on imports will only deprive foreigners of the dollars they would have earned by selling in the U.S. market.”

IfsPolicyBalanceHigherToughTradeDollarsInvestmentRateDeterminedSellingSavingDeficitSavingsForeignersImportsImbalanceTariffsImperviousSlappingSavings And Investment
Author:Daniel T. Griswold
Create image