Fixed Quotes

Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.

Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduring

Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing more than a fixed idea.

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness. (Messy Spirituality)

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty.

I watched the land for as long as I could, until it disappeared behind its shawl of mist, and until I had it fixed in my mind - unchanged, mysterious and beautiful

Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

If you think a certain thought long enough and hard enough, it becomes a fixed belief and you will find yourself behaving on the outside in a manner consistent with it.

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.

Don't have a fixed idea in your head (that you have to use this or that technique). Use everything you've learned until now.

It is your fixed idea that you must be something or other, that blinds you.

We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust's jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection.

It is painful to comprehend how the mind becomes fixed little by little as time goes by. The mind is the executioner of reality, the slayer of the true; the mind is the destroyer of love.

Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?

Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go; At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow.

Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.

In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.

Fixed formation is bad. Study this well.

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

Although your father and mother are dead, if you propose to yourself any good work, only reflect how it will make their names illustrious, and your purpose will be fixed.

Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant of a conflict between a stimulus and the whole individual.

Flow in the living moment - We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed.

There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.

For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.

When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

Painted faces, sun burnt skin, fixed expressions, smiles worn thin.

There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.

Again two manufacturers may employ the same amount of fixed, and the same amount of circulating capital; but the durability of their fixed capitals may be very unequal.

Christ did not make the atonement when he shed his blood upon the cross. Let this fact be fixed forever in the mind.

... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women.

Justice is like the north star, which is fixed, and all the rest revolve about it.

For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living.

When you do comedy in front of an audience, they are the ones who tell you whether it's funny or not and which bits are funny and which bits need to be fixed.

Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

God is a fixed paradise; man should be a paradise in motion.

I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles.