Fixed Quotes

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

When key users told us something wasn't working, we fixed it - immediately.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.

In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

Memories images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.

My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion.

I don't think I'm fixed. People think that you're like a car in a body shop. You go in, they fix you, and you're out. It takes constant fixing.

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.

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

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.

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

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

One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.

We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

In general, my paintings are multifocal. You can't call it unfocused space, but not being fixed to a single focus is very much of our time.

As governor of Lagos, I never signed a cheque and never fixed contract prices.

[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

One poll shows that by 61 percent to 29 percent Americans under 40 say that Social Security needs to be fixed.

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.

The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.

Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed?

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

Happiness does not exist as an isolated quality, nor does it conform to a single fixed pattern. Happiness is something that breathes and lives in the relationships between one person and another.

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.

The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.

An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.