Fixed Quotes
994 quotes by 807 authors
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Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of…
— Teresa of Avila
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Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real…
— Joe Baca
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So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
— Max Beerbohm
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On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be…
— Jeff Bezos
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I think self-esteem is fluid. It's not a fixed state, and so some days are better than others.
— Jo Brand
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I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
— David Byrne
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In modern pharmacology it's so clear that even if you have a fixed dose of a drug, the individuals respond very differently to one and…
— Arvid Carlsson
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The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is…
— Noam Chomsky
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There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system…
— Deepak Chopra
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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Our attitude toward abortion . . . is fixed by our knowledge that according to an eternal plan all of the spirit children of God…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of…
— Emile Durkheim
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Lord, where shall I find you? Your place is lofty and secret. And where shall I not find you? The whole earth is full of…
— Judah Halevi
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The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please
— Amerigo Vespucci
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War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation, where our caring…
— Judith Hand
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The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has…
— Brooks Atkinson
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Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and to struggle with…
— Ralph Ellison
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