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To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
By unswerving devotion to Me, a man crosses over three Gunas - I am the Abode of Brahman , Eternal and Immutable , of everlasting Dharma and Absolute Bliss . -- Chinmayananda Saraswati
I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it's over, it's over. -- Anne Lamott
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them. -- Owen Feltham
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. -- James A. Baldwin
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality. -- Harold S. Geneen
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. -- Charles Baudelaire
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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. -- Nicholas A. Christakis
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better. -- E. M. Forster
One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes. -- Stephen Kinzer
Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world. -- Tom Chatfield
Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God. -- Ralph Cudworth
As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains. -- Nicolas Malebranche
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected. -- Charles Baudelaire
There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success. -- Phil Knight
There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it. -- Larry Poons
You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works. -- Kurt Loder
I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - the study of the human condition - needs to broaden its definition of the human condition. Because the human condition isn't immutable and doomed to remain uniform forever. -- Charles Stross
The stars look the same from night to night. Nebulae and galaxies are dully immutable, maintaining the same overall appearance for thousands or millions of years. Indeed, only the sun, moon and planets - together with the occasional comet, asteroid or meteor - seem dynamic. -- Seth Shostak
I think obviously there's a core of who you are, and as you get older, you become more aware of what behavior is immutable. For a long time, I felt there was a deep separation between the person I was as a teenager and the person I was in my 20s and early 30s . -- Seth
If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell. -- Dan Brown
Being gay is immutable. -- Andrew Solomon
Passions change, politics are immutable. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
God made thee perfect, not immutable. -- John Milton
Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order. -- Pierre-Simon Laplace
Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order. -- Baruch Spinoza
In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's. -- William James
The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable. -- Patrick Henry
We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones. -- Paul Eldridge
An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws. -- Ambrose Bierce
No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality. -- Barbara Goldsmith
Since changing interfaces breaks clients you should consider them as immutable once you've published them. -- Erich Gamma
The laws of physics that we regard as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything but. -- John Archibald Wheeler
Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'. -- Mark Gatiss
History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
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If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die. -- Sharon Shinn
All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws. -- Pierre-Simon Laplace
The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality. -- George Washington
In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated. -- Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world. -- Ralph Cudworth
How we look - though it is superficial and immutable - has a huge impact on our lives. -- Cameron Russell
Roy: The immutable heart of what we are that bleeds through whatever we might become. All else is vanity. -- Tony Kushner
Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable. -- Karl Marx
the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute -- Amartya Sen
Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way. -- Hugh Leonard
One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right. -- Washington Irving
... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65] -- Anne Lamott
Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block. -- Annie Dillard
The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution. -- Pope Pius X
Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country -- Umberto Eco
I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. -- Charles Darwin
As much as we have free choice, absolute destiny is immutable. What is meant to happen does, through one measure or another. -- J.R. Ward
Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable. -- Susan Sontag
It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Because God that is immutable changes what He willed, He is said to repent, although what changes is a thing and not His counsel. -- Pope Gregory I
Our first and immutable commitment must be to the security of Israel, our only true ally in the Middle East and the only democracy -- Barack Obama
Freemasonry is founded on the immutable laws of Truth and Justice and its grand object is to promote the happiness of the human race. -- George Washington
When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless, immutable Tao. -- Laozi
I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality -- Harold Geneen
Being gay is immutable. Maybe someday we'll figure out more of the science and it will be changeable, but we have no leads so far. -- Andrew Solomon
Politics needs a flexible mind, for it has no immutable or eternal rules. In politics immutable or eternal rules lead to inevitable and swift defeat. -- Georgi Plekhanov
The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature. -- August Bournonville
Islam as a religion focuses primarily on the immutable aspects of life and existence, whereas a political system concerns only social aspects of our worldly life. -- Fethullah Gulen
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better." -- E. M. Forster
It is not you as the ego who moves through life, but that life flows before you, and you are the immutable awareness containing it all. -- Enza Vita
If a principle exists it must be immutable, for that is what a principle is - a truth standing apart from the mood of the times. -- Jeff Cooper
Sometime we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. -- Ernest Hemingway
Destiny isn't immutable. You can change your fate. But I'd say the only way to do it is with hard, intelligent work and long-term dedication to a goal. -- Robert Paul Weston
What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June? -- Edward Abbey
Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them. -- David Suzuki
Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operations are understandable to men. -- Galileo Galilei
Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material. -- Anton Chekhov
Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern. -- Marcel Proust
In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
You are the Self, that perfect immutable Self. Nothing else exists. Nothing else ever existed. Nothing else will ever exist. There is only one Self and you are That. Rejoice! -- Robert Adams
Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory. -- Goswami Kriyananda
Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament -- Margaret Deland
Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system. -- Swami Vivekananda
Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics. -- Carl Linnaeus
The more we are cleansed of conflicts, all sorts of conflicts, the easier it is for us to use our energy in a way that attracts the immutable healing of it all. -- Maya Tiwari
Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling. -- Frank Chodorov
The process of democracy is one of change. Our laws are not frozen into immutable form, they are constantly in the process of revision in response to the needs of a changing society. -- Thurgood Marshall
That's what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around us, believing that we are immutable - and all the time we're being carved, and shaped, and whittled away. -- Lauren Oliver
Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved. -- Bertrand Russell
God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces. -- Martin Luther
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. -- H. L. Mencken
There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next. -- Moss Hart
They're constants, aren't they?" ... "Books are. That's why we like them so much. They seem immutable. They're not, of course. Not from the author's first draft to the tenth printing, but they seem like it. -- C.E. Murphy
In contrast to ethical relativism, Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable. -- Martin Luther
A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and the occasions on which, he changes those ideas, procedures, and concepts. -- Stephen Toulmin
When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them. -- Helen Keller

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