Impervious Quotes

• Simplicity is an enduring habit within a soul that has grown impervious to evil thoughts.

  John Climacus

  Simple, Evil, Simplicity

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.215, Paulist Press

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• Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  Discipline, Mind, Influence

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• Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

  Eric Hoffer

  Courage, Fear, Feelings

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• Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.

  Patrick MacGill

  Night, Goal, Monsters

  MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.31, Read Books Ltd

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• Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

  William Congreve

  Inspirational, Fear, War

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• It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.

  Barney Frank

  Party, Taken, Yale

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• Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cities, Swamps, Fields

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.403, Penguin

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• I'm impervious to logic.

  Stephen Colbert

  Logic

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• We must, with God's help, eradicate the deadly poison of the demon of anger from the depths of our souls. So long as he dwells in our hearts and blinds the eyes of the heart with his somber disorders, we can neither discriminate what is for our good, nor achieve spiritual knowledge, nor fulfill our good intentions, nor participate in true life; and our intellect will remain impervious to the contemplation of the true, divine light; for it is written, 'Man's anger does not bring about the righteousness of God' (Jms. 1:20).

  John Cassian

  Christian, Spiritual, Eye

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• Good thoughts are an impervious armor; clad therewith you are completely shielded from the attacks of error of every sort. And not only yourselves are safe, but all whom your thoughts rest upon are thereby benefited.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Errors, Armor, Safe

  Mary Baker Eddy (1964). “The Christian Science Journal”

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• 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.

  Isaac Asimov

  Strong, Philosophical, Army

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• The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Firsts, Consciousness, Structure

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.26, Penguin

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• We unified, we looked past and we're impervious to the constant criticism of naysayer.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Past, Criticism, Naysayers

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I'm not saying I'm impervious to criticism.

  Barack Obama

  Criticism

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I gloomily came to the ironic conclusion that if you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then you will most likely wind up with an academic who is completely impervious to reality.

  Halton Arp

  Intelligent, Reality, Wind

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• Anorexia and bulimia seem to be getting much more common in boys, men, and women of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds; they are also becoming more common in racial groups previously thought to be impervious to the problem.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Boys, Men, Anorexia

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• And at points in the movie, John Cena is actually impervious to bullets!

  John Cena

  Wwe, Bullets

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• Obama is clearly a narcissist in the non-scientific use of the word. He is so self-involved, you see it from his rise.There’s not anyone of independent stature around him. There was in the first term, because he needed them to prop him up. But now that he entered a second term, he’s the master of the universe, so there’s nobody around him. He is impervious to outside advice, real advice that he takes.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Real, Independent, Self

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• I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney, of Upstairs, Downstairs, perished on the Titanic, I wept so convulsively and developed such anorexia that I had to be force-fed.

  S. J. Perelman

  Pride, Anorexia, Television

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• There is no social evil, no form of injustice whether of the feudal or the capitalist order which has not been sanctified in some way or other by religious sentiment and thereby rendered more impervious to change.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Religious, Order, Evil

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• 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.

  Tycho Brahe

  Real, Science, Simple

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• 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.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Spiritual, Block, Thinking

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• 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.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dirty, Feet, Veins

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Mind, Wicked

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• E-books are impervious to analogy.

  Scott Adams

  Book, Library, Analogies

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