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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• 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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• 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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• 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. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

  Eric Hoffer

  Courage, Fear, Feelings

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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.

  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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• I'm impervious to logic.

  Stephen Colbert

  Logic

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• I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.

  Liev Schreiber

  People

  "Salt's Liev Schreiber On Getting Over His Sexual Tension With Angelina Jolie". Interview with Katey Rich, www.cinemablend.com. July 20, 2010.

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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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• 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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• I'm a five-seasons griller! Did you know I added a new season? Living in Cali, I'm cooking in the yard all the time. I don't care what the weather is like. My hair is impervious to any kind of dampness, so I don't have too much to worry about.

  Guy Fieri

  Weather, Hair, Worry

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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• Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.

  Connie Willis

  Cat, Threat, Knows

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.197, Bantam

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• 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)

  Dennis Lehane

  Pain, Heart, Blood

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

  Diana Gabaldon

  Pain, Men, Wonder

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “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”, p.256, Dell

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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 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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• 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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• No man's plenum, Mr. Quistgaard, is impervious to the awl of God's will.

  Donald Barthelme

  Men, God's Will

  Donald Barthelme (2013). “Snow White”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Alain Finkielkraut

  Fall, Men, Games

  "The Undoing of Thought". Book by Alain Finkielkraut, 1988.

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• 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.

  James F. Cooper

  War, Struggle, Book

  "The Last of the Mohicans". Book by James F. Cooper, 1826.

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• 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.

  Howard Zinn

  Mean, Artist, Justice

  Howard Zinn (2012). “The Historic Unfulfilled Promise”, p.65, City Lights Publishers

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