Fixed Quotes
994 quotes by 807 authors
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The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears…
— Albert Pike
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I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew,…
— Satyajit Ray
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Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.
— Ernest Renan
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Again two manufacturers may employ the same amount of fixed, and the same amount of circulating capital; but the durability of their fixed capitals may…
— David Ricardo
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When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people.…
— Arundhati Roy
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Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.
— Paul Ryan
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I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an…
— Susan Sarandon
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To spend more money, you have to have more money, but time is fixed and we all have the same amount to spare. How we…
— Simon Sinek
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Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
— Susan Sontag
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When I'm concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
— Barbra Streisand
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I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
— Barbra Streisand
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The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to sell…
— Matt Taibbi
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He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.
— Ellen G. White
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The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than the…
— George Edward Woodberry
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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…
— Frances Wright
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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that,…
— Charles Darwin
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If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and…
— Brennan Manning
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