Fixed Quotes

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.

American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.

There's no great shame in having your nose fixed.

When held up to the window pane, What fixed my baby stare? The glory of the glittering rain, And newness everywhere.

The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.

If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.

The window can be fixed, Katerina. I'm far more concerned about him.

Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.

I mean, yeah, maybe our fate is sometimes fixed and unchangeable, but there are other times when its shaped purely by the actions we take.

RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.

Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?

Voice isn't fixed or unmalleable, it adapts to the characters you are creating and the story being told. I suppose in some way that's true in life - a little flexibility goes a long way.

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.

Nobody's madder than me about the website not working as well as it should, which means it's going to get fixed.

A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.

Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?

In the beginning was the word, but it wasn't a fixed number of bits.

On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through.

In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.

Lucy went first, biting her lip and trying not to say all the things she thought of saying to Susan. But she forgot them when she fixed her eyes on Aslan.

You have to want to have taste. Some people have inherently bad taste. Their problem is really not the bad taste -- that can be fixed -- but that they don't know they have it!

... Herbert said of himself, with his eyes fixed on the fire, that he thought he must have committed a felony and forgotten the details of it, he felt so dejected and guilty.

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.

That you could fix me? What's more, that I could fix you? Well, Sorry, pet, I don't want to be fixed. - Caleb

I agree with [Donald] Trump: These trade agreements have not been good deals for America, and they need to be fixed.

If we fixed a hangnail the way our government fixes the economy, we'd slam a car door on it.

Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.

No one has ever thought this: Now that I'm out of therapy and have fixed my mental problems, I think I want to be a ventriloquist.

Under the Enrichment Laws, consumers have to spend a fixed quota of dollars each month, depending on their strata. Hoarding is an anti-corpocratic crime.

The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.

I think what you've seen from Donald Trump is this whole election cycle, there's been a level of misogyny that has become certain and fixed.

Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.

Reality isn't a vast, fixed scheme trapping you without choice. At any moment you have the choice to break out of what is really trapping you-your automatic reactions dredged up from the past.

I'm not saying I'm perfect, or fixed, but I am learning to love and accept myself. My outlook is more positive and I am happy.

We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program.

I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.

We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose - the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails.

The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.

The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends.

I want you to know, my dear friend, that without you, I would not be the person I am today." He leaned in close and whispered, "I was a broken boy, and you fixed me. Thank you.

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.

Laws of nature don't know they are "fixed." That's a human pattern seeking description that comes out of our need to survive. It isn't an objective description of anything.

You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.

While this is good and it stores up knowledge and power, at the same time there's a problem with it because it means that a person becomes more fixed.

The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is.

The judgment that you pass today will only hinder a person in their spiritual evolution. All you do is say to the person, psychically: "This is what you are. You're fixed. You can't change."

There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end.

As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make because of the fixed and tight production schedule.