#invincible

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. ↗

— Simone Weil

#does #give #inexorable #invincible #oppression

I've realized how precious life is. When I was younger, I was more adventurous. I felt invincible. I was game for everything. As a mom, I don't want to get injured because then I can't take care of my kids. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#because #care #everything #felt #game

There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you and you feel you're invincible. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#feel #invincible #life #lined #performances

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#exchange #i #india #invincible #love

But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#bit #change #disturbing #find #fixed

When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail. ↗

— John Green

#teenagers #teens #change

I will work on Invincible until I am made to quit. ↗

— Robert Kirkman

#i #i am #invincible #made #quit

I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary. ↗

— Barney Frank

#any #binds #called #concept #contrary

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#glad #i #invincible #respectability #shall

Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#any #broad #come #conclusion #experience