Fixed Quotes
994 quotes by 773 authors
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I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One leg of the…
— Elif Safak
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I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If you do not help me," Tessa said to Jem, "I swear, I will change into you, and I will lift him myself. And then…
— Cassandra Clare
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[T]he essence of belief is doubt, the essence of reality is questioning. The essence of Time is Flow, not Fix. The essence of faith is…
— Thomas Wolfe
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And I felt comfort. Finally. All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same…
— Sarah Dessen
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In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually…
— Haruki Murakami
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The list of fun and easily fixed brain diseases is very short.
— Mike Birbiglia
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You have no idea how to dance, do you?†Cinder fixed her gaze on him, mind still reeling. “I’m a mechanic.
— Marissa Meyer
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I watched the land for as long as I could, until it disappeared behind its shawl of mist, and until I had it fixed in…
— Aimee Friedman
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Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.
— Patrick Ness
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You asked why the rate hate Overlanders so deeply. It is because they know one will be the warrior of the prophecy," said Vikus. "Oh,…
— Suzanne Collins
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As with all journeys, the Way has an end, though it should not be imagined as a straight road leading to a fixed destination but…
— Reza Aslan
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The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place…
— Milton Friedman
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Things rarely get fixed the way they need to be.
— David Levithan
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And he's pressing into her and she into him, bodies shivering, like they are two scared, lost children, starving, starving to be touched, to be…
— Lisa McMann
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In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.…
— Alan Lightman
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There are some people—people the universe seems to have singled out for special destinies. Special favors and special torments. God knows we're all drawn toward…
— Cassandra Clare
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Finally, Peeta turns to Pollux. "Well, then you just became our most valuable asset." Castor laughs and Pollux manages a smile. We're halfway down the…
— Suzanne Collins
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What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Okay. Morality in a nutshell. Don't hurt people if you can avoid it. Don't steal stuff unless you're starving or it's really, really important. Work…
— Ursula Vernon
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