Fixed Quotes

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I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can… — Joyce Carol Oates
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later,… — William Faulkner
Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I don't think you fully understand the public, my friend; in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get… — Ken Kesey
I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there are… — Chaim Potok
I didnâ€™t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court of mythical creatures… — Anne Rice
... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding… — Gregory Maguire
People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their… — Ann Brashares
There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time something… — Dave Eggers
And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something… — Douglas Coupland
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run — Herman Melville
If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection will be the… — Jonathan Edwards
Every tree and plant in the medouw seemed to be dancing, those with average eyes would see as fixed and still. — Rumiko Takahashi
Aside from the obvious, Francesca, what do you want in return for supplying information?â€ Bones asked, getting back to the subject. â€œYou to take me,â€… — Jeaniene Frost
She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know… — Neil Gaiman
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have… — Eric Hoffer
Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.… — John Donne
Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule — Donald A. Norman
It's all I ever really wanted, that revelation. The possibility of fixed stars. — Janet Fitch

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