Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Mountains terrify me - they just sit about; they are so proud.
My feet are firmly planted on the ground.
If you're able to build something on a strong foundation, you're not going to be easily swayed.
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.
What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out
Paul welcomed hearbreak, disillusionment and tribulation for only one reason - - these things kept him immovable in his devotion to the gospel of God.
People are looking for stability in a shaky world. They want something they can get hold of that's firm and sure and an anchor in the midst of all of this instability in which they're living.
Goin insane, never die, live eternal, who shall I fear?
You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.
Bizarrely, our English word 'sturdy' may go back to the Latin turdus, thrush. Anyone described as 'sturdy' in the 1200s was wilfully reckless and possibly as immovable as a sozzled bird.
There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.
I am like a brick.
Yes, I can be rigid and adamant about a point of view.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
I am stubborn and I am hardheaded.
Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.
Motion is always a relative thing. I move in relation to something else. Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one, and in relation to what can it move? There is nothing besides it. So this infinite Unit is unchangeable, immovable, absolute, and this is the Real Man.
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
The heart of standing is you cannot fly.
Who is so firm that can't be seduced?
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
When Ray Charles is concentrating he's like a piece of granite, nothing twitches, nothing, ... He sat for 25 minutes solid like that, like a stone, and I thought, 'Oh my God, if he doesn't like it I'm dead.' ... And then finally, after 25 minutes he started to talk back to the screen. I heard him say 'That's right. That's the truth.' .