Fixed Quotes

But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

We are all connected and operate within living fields of thought and perception. The world is not fixed but is in constant flux; accordingly, the future is not fixed, and so can be shaped.

Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts

God is pleased continually to vary His mode of dealing with us, in order that we may not be tempted to trust in donors, or in circumstances, but in Him alone, and to keep our eye fixed upon Him.

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

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.

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.

A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.

Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.

I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.

A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term.

I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.

... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.

Me too, I make do, I anoint what cannot be fixed.

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula

I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.

Images of the world are Renormalization Group fixed points.

The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.

Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.

Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.

You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules

Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.

The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run

Flee and your bad behavior will be fixed in people's minds. Return, seem in goo spirits, and everyone will doubt their own memory of events.

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are IMPOSSIBLE.

Vision is a destination - a fixed point to which we focus all effort. Strategy is a route - an adaptable path to get us where we want to go.

There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.

Love is a fluxuating thing, not a fixed thing. That's why we don't understand what's happening.

You can always add something to a bike, but you come to a point where you can’t take anything away and that's a fixed gear bike

It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically.

It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.

A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.

Botany is based on fixed genera.

What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.

The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.

Some stuff can be fixed, some stuff can’t be. Deciding which is which is part of maturing.

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management.

Did you ever build a castle in the Air? Here is one, brought down to earth and fixed for the wonder of ages.

Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.

Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute.

Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.

You have no idea how to dance, do you?” Cinder fixed her gaze on him, mind still reeling. “I’m a mechanic.

The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.

While the human gaze becomes more and more fixed, losing some of its natural speed and sensitivity, photographic shots, on the contrary, become even faster.

Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Every tree and plant in the medouw seemed to be dancing, those with average eyes would see as fixed and still.

I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.