Fixed Quotes

The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.

Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.

Regret has a purpose. It's like the oil light on the dashboard of your life, telling you something needs to be fixed. So fix it. And feel better.

Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.

As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn't favor the stability and spatial demands of painting.

We're not running out of [fixed] targets. Afghanistan is.

In America, we have a depleted military. It has to be helped, has to be fixed.

Your fixed convictions concerning the things that really matter mold your destiny.

Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.

The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.

To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.

If the mind be fixed on the acquirement of any object, that object will be attained.

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns.. your thought process goes on.

There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.

Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.

A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.

I think self-esteem is fluid. It's not a fixed state, and so some days are better than others.

When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way.

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

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.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.

I am not dead yet! I can still call forth a piece of soul and set it down in color, fixed forever.

Because there's nothing wrong with you... that can't be fixed.

I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.

Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong, The women have leaped from their spheres, And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along, And are setting the world by the ears!

What we're trying to do is get things fixed, not allow them to stay broke.

The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed in their old perceptual attitudes.

In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits.

The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class interests upon which the [US] policy is fixed.

A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.

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

I am, beneath everything else, a fan. I was fixed in this mode as a young boy and am awed by people who take the risks of performance.

Money has a fixed value. People can have unlimited value.

When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.

A photographer looks at everything, which is why he must look from beginning to end. Face the subject head-on, stay fixed, turn the entire body into an eye and face the world.

Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective experience is determined as well.

Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed.

Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.

These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.

Where the greater malady is fixed, The lesser is scarce felt.

We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love; And, even as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend.

If we release our fixed ideas about how the world should appear, desires can simply fall away. Our attention is paid to releasing, not wanting to release.

Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.

The Russians have fixed world chess.

God fixed my heart, so I could bless yours.

Everyone on the set has a mobile phone, and I found by pushing a few buttons, they could be programmed into different languages. I fixed Robbie's Coltrane to speak in Turkish.

Things rarely get fixed the way they need to be.

Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule

Yes, I have dreams. I ofttimes dream of Love As radiant and brilliant as a star. As changeless, too, as that fixed light afar Which glorifies vast worlds of space above.