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Quotes About Incorruptible

a ti también, en otras playas de oro, te aguarda incorruptible tu tesoro: la vasta y vaga y necesaria muerte.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I suspect that the human species - the unique species - is about to be extinguished, but the Library will endure: illuminated, solitary, infinite, perfectly motionless, equipped with precious volumes, useless, incorruptible, secret.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
For almost every peculiar attribute of material nature becomes apparent from the peculiarities of its motion from place to place. [Thus one can distinguish] the corruptible from the incorruptible by [whether it undergoes] motion in a straight line or in a circle, and heavy from light, and passive from active, by [whether it moves] towards the centre or move away from the centre.
~ Ptolemy
Dicho de otra forma. Yo tenía diecinueve años y sabía que el amor era incorruptible, a prueba del tiempo y del deterioro.
~ Julian Barnes
Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often.
~ Craig Ferguson
Too often privilege in Massachusetts was bolstered by class-conscious arrogance tempered only when necessary by corruption. Coolidge was not corrupt. His personal ideals were high. But he was serene in the presence of this corruptible body in Boston even though he put on the incorruptible—a quickening spirit. He played a clean game with the run of the dirty cards!
~ William Allen White
I dream of a Digital India where technology ensures the Citizen-Government interface is incorruptible.
~ Narendra Modi
The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, our perceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday the body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.
~ Ellen Bass
And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Maximilien R. Peters! Incorruptible, ineluctable, and indestructable! It's time to start a revolution, baby
~ Jennifer Donnelly
We must put our trust in Robespierre; he is incorruptible.
~ Anatole France
Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.
~ Dick Gregory
For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
~ Lactantius
Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
~ Anonymous
The incorruptible things are all within the narrow gate. The peace of God which passed all understanding - the bright hope of good things to come - the sense of the Spirit dwelling in us - the consciousness that we are forgiven, safe, insured, provided for in time and eternity, whatever may happen - these are true gold, and lasting riches.
~ John Charles Ryle
And as for those parts that came from the earth, they shall return unto the earth again; and those that came from heaven, they also shall return unto those heavenly places. Whether it be a mere dissolution and unbinding of the manifold intricacies and entanglements of the confused atoms; or some such dispersion of the simple and incorruptible elements...
~ Marcus Aurelius
The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.
~ Aristotle
Glancing round the spacious library, where the handsome sets of books were never taken out of the formidable modern yet still Jacobean bookcases, he sighed regretfully because possessions, like the spirit of the possessor, are not incorruptible.
~ Ellen Glasgow
I seek to cast an incorruptible gaze on women, especially where they are the accomplices of men.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.
~ Henry Fielding
The houses of Heaven are God-built and are as enduring and incorruptible as their builder. We will have bodies after the resurrection; transfigured they will be after the model of Christ's glorious body.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
The titanic difference between God's affections and ours is that His are incorruptible. We process information about Him as if His emotions were created in our image rather than ours in His image. The original source of all emotion is utterly undefiled.
~ Beth Moore
In our resurrection bodies we will know nothing of physical weakness. Limitations imposed on us on this earth are not known in heaven. We will have a habitation from God that is incorruptible, immortal, and powerful.
~ Billy Graham
How to remain free? How to preserve the incorruptible lucidity of my spirit faced with all the threats and dangers of sectarian turmoil?
~ Stefan Zweig