Fixed Quotes
994 quotes by 773 authors
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When the Bible itself becomes irksome, inquire whether you have not been spoiling your appetite by sweetmeats and renounce them; and believe that the Word…
— F B Meyer
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Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the…
— Herman Melville
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Fireheart dashed to the warrior's side. Cloudtail was standing stiff-legged, every hair in his pelt on end as if he were facing an enemy. His…
— Erin Hunter
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Brightpaw's eye opened and she fixed a cloudy gaze on Fireheart. "What happened?" he repeated. "What did this?" A thin wailing came from Brightpaw, which…
— Erin Hunter
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The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I carry thoughts of you like my own personal constellation. How far away you are, my dearest friend, but no farther than those fixed stars…
— Lisa Kleypas
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It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.
— Emily Giffin
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I-" said Nick, his voice halting. "I don't mind it as much when - when people touch me. Some people." Mae looked down, and Nick,…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules,…
— Glen Cook
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Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mature adult love and maybe more,…
— Tim O'Brien
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It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share…
— Joseph Conrad
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We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get…
— Yann Martel
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They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it…
— Robin Wasserman
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No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you're screwed because it's all fixed and rigged. There is a club and you…
— George Carlin
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Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.
— Tony DiTerlizzi
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Life is like molten glass. It flows, it's flexible, it can be molded and shaped and...what do you say? Ah, yes. It holds vast potential.…
— Maria V. Snyder
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Think of the universal substance, of which thou has a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Some things just can't be put back together. Some things can never be fixed. Two broken pieces can't make a lot of anything anymore. But…
— Jamie Ford
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I can't believe you jokers fixed it." Hi was picking his way down to the beach. "Believe it, clown. Too much brain power here to…
— Kathy Reichs
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