Fixed Quotes

No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you're screwed because it's all fixed and rigged. There is a club and you ain't in it.

For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.

orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.

I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it.

... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.

There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image on a sensitized plate and there remain unalterably fixed.

If your body is damaged, wounded, it can be fixed, but if inside, mentally, you are wounded you cannot fix it, it's hard.

Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.

What you were yesterday is fixed for always, making its mark on what you are today, what you will be tomorrow.

No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.

There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.

Whether it's from the books or the films, there are some people that will have a very fixed idea in their head. You're not going to match that. At a certain point, you have to accept that.

No soul is bad enough for a fixed "hell," or good enough for a fixed "heaven," however useful the words may be as pointing to opposite states.

"Amy," Elsie Moore said in her crackling voice, her gaze fixed on Declan. "I want you to get me a new bear. A blond one."

I could have fixed almost everything else, but death defeated me every time.

There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.

It's so much healthier to acknowledge we're fluid and constantly in flux than to pretend to live in a universe where everything is fixed.

Cities have a psychogeographical relief, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes which strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones

There are so many flaws, .. I don't think they can be fixed.

Thomas: Is it [my brain] fixed? Brenda: It worked, judging from the fact that you're not trying to kill us anymore.

The saving principles and doctrines of the Church are established, fixed, and unchangeable.

I believe most of suburbia is unreformable and will not be fixed.

Are you afraid of me? Uh... yes.' The smile stayed fixed in place. 'You should be. You locked me in a refrigerator truck with three dead people. Sooner or later I'm going to get you for it.

It's all I ever really wanted, that revelation. The possibility of fixed stars.

I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed.

I want to do different projects and be versatile. I don't want to get fixed into narrative comedy.

I think I can fix the problems in Washington that people desperately want to see fixed.

If it's broken, it can be fixed.

Today, its expensive prescription medications burdening seniors on fixed incomes with thousands of dollars in yearly out-of-pocket costs.

During a speech on Sunday, President Obama said to the crowd, 'We've got to vote. Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote.' This went on for an hour until someone finally fixed his teleprompter.

Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.

Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.

The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in advance that it can never be modified.

Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings; I know that God is good!

I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings.

There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.

Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed.

I definitely have a firm, fixed idea of what compromise is for me.

Everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into prodigious peal of laughter that would shake the fixed stars in their places.

Believing in an idea is dangerous! Because belief is absolute, and absolute, is unconditional, it is supreme, its ultimate and therefore fixed, which by definition will never be acceptable to change.

Rapid-collage prevents any elevating movement toward a fixed goal. To 'be nowhere' is to let oneself be.

The central premise of great leadership is recognizes that fundamental fact, that not of us are fixed entities, and taking responsibility for making sure that we bring out our people's best selves.

My goal as a young man, to be fat, famous and financially fixed by 50.

One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.

I've never been convinced that everything in a relationship needs to be talked about. Some things can't be fixed by a conversation

I carry thoughts of you like my own personal constellation. How far away you are, my dearest friend, but no farther than those fixed stars in my soul.

Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny and liberty from licentiousness.

...Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.

I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.

Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.