A Quote by Gustave Flaubert

Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
French - Novelist
December 12, 1821 - May 8, 1880

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.

Coleman Young

If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.

Robertson Davies

The irresistible force meets the immovable object.

Gorilla Monsoon

The object of defense is preservation; and since it is easier to hold ground than to take it, defense is easier than attack. But defense has a passive purpose: preservation; and attack a positive one: conquest.... If defense is the stronger form of war, yet has a negative object, it follows that it should be used only so long as weakness compels, and be abandoned as soon as we are strong enough to pursue a positive object.

Carl von Clausewitz

How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself...?

Dalma Heyn

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

Laurence J. Peter

I've always liked the idea of making things that last forever, not necessarily in the sense of being unbreakable, but more psychologically permanent. Most people throw stuff away not because it's broken but because their relationship with that object is broken.

Marcel Wanders

Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force.

Ogden Nash

Reason was nowhere, time was an immovable object nailed high on the wall, except where the world kept shop.

Mae West

A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object imposed on me, an object for which the world provides the raw material and then steals it from me again, pulverized by events, scattered, broken, scored yet retaining its unity; how heavy it is and how inconsistent: this contradiction breeds many misunderstandings.

Simone de Beauvoir

You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.

Jane Fonda

Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. Broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts.

Bob Dylan

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

Ernest Hemingway

Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one's interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you.

Iris Murdoch

There's been an open attack by the U.S. government, an immoral attack, to try and prevent Venezuela from being freely elected to a post in the Security Council. The imperium is afraid of truth, is afraid of independent voices. It calls us extremists, but they are the extremists.

Hugo Chavez

My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.

Joni Mitchell

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