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

Laurence J. Peter

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Laurence J. Peter
Canadian - Writer
September 16, 1919 - January 12, 1990

The irresistible force meets the immovable object.

Gorilla Monsoon

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

Ogden Nash

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

It was Test cricket as it should be played, when the irresistible force in Allan Donald met the immovable object in Mike Atherton at Trent Bridge in 1998. And I was happy to watch from the best seat in the house - at the other end.

Nasser Hussain

I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.

Julian Fellowes

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

Gustave Flaubert

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

Dalma Heyn

'American Idol' has changed the face of television.

Jennifer Hudson

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

Mae West

A positive mental attitude is an irresistible force that knows no such thing as an immovable body.

Napoleon Hill

The Internet has changed how young people listen to music. Television programs like 'American Idol' changed how people listen to music. It was no longer the songwriters that we celebrated; it was the singers.

Robert Hilburn

She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armour, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency.

Raymond Chandler

There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became.

Walt Whitman

Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition... Yet change is life's only constant.

Laurie Beth Jones

Non-violence is backed by the theory of soul-force in which suffering is courted in the hope of ultimately winning over the opponent. But what happens when such an attempt fail to achieve the object? It is here that soul-force has to be combined with physical force so as not to remain at the mercy of tyrannical and ruthless enemy.

Bhagat Singh

By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.

John F. Kennedy

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