Quotes About Immutable

Truth is the daughter of God, and in all her attributes God-like and eternal. Truth never depreciates in value.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

And so it was, and so it ever shall be.

Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything.

Time is the only commodity in life that cannot be bought, sold, borrowed, given out as a gift and it cannot be inherited.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

But, Jimmy! What unnatural words. Always and forever! Those aren't human words, Jim. Not even stones are always and forever.

Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction.

The blue lake, the snow-clad mountains--they never change. And I think our placid home and contented hearts are regulated by the same immutable law.

Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed

It was a strong effort of the spirit of good, but it was ineffectual. Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction.

True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.

Some properties should not be changed. The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42, and you want it to stay that way. Error and status flags will often be hard-coded into your classes. Although they should be publicly and statically available, client code should not be able to change them.

Death and taxes are the only two certainties in life, as Mark Twain once said. Or was it Benjamin Franklin?

Principles are like lighthouses. They are natural laws that cannot be broken.

none shall be destroyed before the Lord of spirits, and none can be

Human nature is indeed indestructible.

Princes may make laws and repeal them, but they can neither make nor destroy virtue, and how indeed should they be able to do what is impossible to the Deity himself? Virtue being as immutable in its nature as the divine will which is the ground of it.

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

Wyrd bið ful ?ræd. Fate is inexorable.

Fate's sentence written on the brow no hand can e'er efface.

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. To be sure, theology is always yielding a little to the progress of knowledge, and only a Holy Roller in the mountains of Tennessee would dare to preach today what the popes preached in the thirteenth century.