Implacable Quotes
53 quotes by 44 authors
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Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.
— Walter Bagehot
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Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have sunk from theism…
— Kenny Smith
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God's wrath is not an implacable, blind rage. However emotional it may be, it is an entirely reasonable and willed response to offenses against his…
— D. A. Carson
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Even winter — the hardest season, the most implacable — dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away. Everything…
— Clive Barker
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Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me.
— Herman Melville
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Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
— Albert Camus
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Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.
— Steven Pressfield
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The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than…
— Eric Hoffer
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Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.
— Will Self
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This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless…
— Cormac McCarthy
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The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes; It is always the same, wherever one goes. And the Pugs and…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have…
— Richard Dawkins
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Enemies are somewhere else, as the fighting is almost always “over there,†with Islamic fundamentalism now replacing Russian and Chinese communism as the implacable, furtive…
— Susan Sontag
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What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap of freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give…
— Albert Camus
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beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.
— Wilbur Smith
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I could have grabbed his shirt collar. I could have pulled him close to me, so close he could feel my breath on his skin,…
— Garth Stein
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Browns seek knowledge, Blues meddle in causes, and Whites consider the questions of truth with implacable logic. We all do some of it all, of…
— Robert Jordan
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We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those…
— Tim O'Brien
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Memories can bring comfort to the old and infirm, but memories can also be implacable foes, a malicious army of temporal ghosts forever pillaging the…
— Rick Yancey
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