#movable

They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions. ↗

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

#alone #away #being #carried #danger

I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move. ↗

— Coleman Young

#come #i #immovable #learned #move

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#innovations #inventions #language #me #million

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#force #irresistible #movable #temptation #work

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#being #contingent #eternal #fleeting #half

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#divided #immovable #into #mankind #movable

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#everyone #free #him #his #keep

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#find #immovable #log #power #rock

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#american #changed #child #force #immovable