Fixed Quotes
994 quotes by 807 authors
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As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There's a tea for that too. Somewhere…
— Aprilynne Pike
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The patients often try to starve themselves, to hang themselves, to cut their arteries; they beg that they may be burned, buried alive, driven out…
— Emil Kraepelin
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Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed.
— Raymond Simard
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The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very…
— Jacob Bronowski
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If our principal treasure be as we profess, in things spiritual and heavenly, and woe unto us if it be not so! on them will…
— John Owen
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The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in…
— William Gurnall
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Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
— Judith Butler
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Today, its expensive prescription medications burdening seniors on fixed incomes with thousands of dollars in yearly out-of-pocket costs.
— Jim Gerlach
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When I left England, my hope of India's conversion was very strong; but amongst so many obstacles, it would die, unless upheld by God. Well,…
— William Carey
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A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the…
— Edward de Bono
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What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and…
— Mark Twain
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It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House of Commons at…
— Margaret Thatcher
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If Congress were to pass a 'flat' tax, you'd simply pay a fixed percentage of your income, and you wouldn't have to fill out any…
— Dave Barry
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Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed inquiring gaze found…
— W G Sebald
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A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that…
— Joseph Roth
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God reminds us again and again that things between He and us are forever fixed. They are the rendezvous points where God declares to us…
— Tullian Tchividjian
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I get all my ideas in Switzerland near the Forka Pass. There is a little town called Gletch, and two thousand feet up above Gletch…
— Dr. Seuss
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Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant of a conflict…
— Rene Leriche
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There are two powers that alone can effect in their conjunction the great and dificult thing which is the aim of our endeavour, a fixed…
— Sri Aurobindo
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