A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Where are we going? You never told me." "My home in Romania." Wow, this guy wasn’t kidding with his Dracula fixation. — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
When you cast away all your greed and fixation in adversity, you can find unexpected strength. — Momofuku Ando Copy Share Image
I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation. — David Liss Copy Share Image
Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing. — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out. — Sybil Adelman Copy Share Image
To be fixated on Sahaja Samadhi is to be fixated. To be fixated on the idea of being not fixated is fixation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I like to mimic my grandkids. I'm trying to understand the intensity of fixation on a leaf. Kids don't need anything else… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
We’re all misfits herefrom our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“The first time I watched him fight, I got hard. My heart pounded in my chest, and I chewed on my lip… — Kasia Bacon Copy Share Image
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“I pick it up and turn to a random page and read a sentence — 'Nothing fixes a thing so firmly in… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“We often confuse determination with its evil twin: fixation. While determination is our ability to stand our ground while pursuing our goals.… — Venugopal Gupta Copy Share Image
“She has a fixation on love. Strong trouble. The girl left her window open one clear night and it crawled into her… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
When we struggle agains our energy we reject the source of wisdom. Anger without the fixation is none other than clear-seeing wisdom.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The destructive fixation of the envious English-Canadian mind requires that the highest, happiest most agile flyers be laid low. [It is] a… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I'd go to conference after conference and it would essentially be the talking points. Either pro or con. It's amazing how polarized… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written. — Jeff Feuerzeig Copy Share Image
...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
![“Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression. It must aim through fixations which are landmarks, to draw [one] towards a total exaltation in which the individual mingles, losing his…” quote by Iannis Xenakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c9b/iannis-xenakis-48999_aim_art-and-above-all-music-has-a-fundamenta_922254.png)
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