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Quotes About Unalterable

What's bred in the bone, Admits no hope of cure.
~ Philip Massinger
When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool
~ Sydney Smith
The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.
~ Charles Grandison Finney
Christ's lordship is a blessed hope for some & a terrifying nightmare for others. Regardless of our response, it is an unalterable reality.
~ Paul Washer
I believe no one else can correct our feelings; they are pure, incorrigible.
~ Edmund White
The important distinction so well understood in America, between a Constitution established by the people and unalterable by the government, and a law established by the government and alterable by the government, seems to have been little understood and less observed in any other country.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Essentialism' denotes the view that members of a group share one or more defining characteristics which are innate and unalterable.
~ Ali Rattansi
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.
~ Thomas Paine
wisdom lies in correctly discerning where we are free to mould reality according to our wishes and where we must accept the unalterable with tranquillity. The
~ Alain de Botton
Just as God's love to us believers, his children, is unalterably the same, whatever may be the manifestations of that love; and as his peace with us is the same, however much our peace may be disturbed; so it is also with regard to our being in fellowship or partnership with him: it remains unalterably the same so far as God is concerned.
~ George Muller
That was history, in his opinion: that sorrow was unalterable and ever present. That tears could be preserved in the hardest granite.
~ Alice Hoffman
You must not pay too much attention to opinions. The written word is unalterable, and opinions are often only an expression of despair.
~ Franz Kafka
But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
~ Origen
character is not cut in marble—it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
~ George Eliot
Right now it just felt . . . inevitable. And unalterable. She couldn't have changed her mind even if she wanted to. She'd fled, and there was no fleeing back. That would be worse than continuing to do nothing, than living with the status quo.
~ Sarah-Kate Lynch
Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history
~ Michel Foucault
He knew there were two kinds of truth in this world. The truth that was the unalterable bedrock of one's life and mission. And the other, malleable truth of politicians, charlatans, corrupt lawyers, and their clients, bent and molded to serve whatever purpose was at hand.
~ Michael Connelly
Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A trivial thing, for a teenage boy to be colour-blind, not uncommon or noteworthy, unless it simply, unalterably, thwarted everything.
~ Stephen Gregory
He was such a creature as civilized, domestic people in the temperate zone only see in their dreams, and that but dimly; but the like of whom now and then glide among the unchanging Asiatic communities, especially the Oriental isles to the east of the continent— those insulated, immemorial, unalterable countries, which even in these modern days still preserve much of the ghostly aboriginalness of earth's primal generations
~ Herman Melville
Upon the glazen shelves kept watchMatthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith,The army of unalterable law.
~ T. S. Eliot
I could not change his fate; I could not revive his wife. But in that moment I did succeed in changing his attitude toward his unalterable fate inasmuch as from that time on he could at least see a meaning in his suffering.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles he can only discover them.
~ Thomas Paine
The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and the friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.
~ Thomas Paine