Fixed Quotes

Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky.

He looks at me, the light in his eyes fractures into millions of bits—a kaleidoscope of darkness that may never be fixed.

For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

Up to a certain point anxiety is good, for it promotes action. Beyond that point we freeze any fixed attitudes or rush about without thinking deeply from one decision to another.

In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing.

Crimes spring from fixed ideas.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

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

Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

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.

Pray that no sleep may seize upon your eyes, nor slumber upon your eyelids until your thoughts have seriously, calmly, and unchangably fixed.

Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.

Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed morality.

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.

What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis; Horses fluent in the wind, A place, a time gone out of mind.

The way we guarantee safe drinking water is broken and needs to be fixed.

When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers.

[With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were, is that I prescribe your vision.

The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. About Russia

Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?

I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.

As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.

Skill at creating, exploiting, and exiting crucial alliances beats ownership of fixed assets

I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.

The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory.

God grant, if we must have two eyes, that they may be both clear ones, one the eye of faith wholly fixed on Christ, the other the eye of obedience equally and wholly fixed on the same objective!

After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board

I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.

The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another.

Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.

If any of you get hernias in this tug-of-war against the Army, I'll pay to get them fixed.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

There is in guerrilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle; there is nothing comparable to the fixed, passive defense that characterizes orthodox war.

I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!

A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical.

A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.

A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.

When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over intermediate obstructions.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?