Fixed Quotes

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In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever… — William Falconer
It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now,… — Richard Parks Bland
To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a… — Peter R. Grant
The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted… — Jack Schwartz
General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run,… — James Longstreet
We must level with the people and explain to them that Social Security will first face funding problems in 2042 that can be fixed now… — Grace Napolitano
Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead. — Bram Stoker
There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making. — Richard Cecil
The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has… — Brooks Atkinson
Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No… — David Lehman
I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and… — Eric Liu
It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans. — Eric Liu
Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the story take me… — Cecelia Ahern
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in the… — Marilynne Robinson
I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is… — Michel Houellebecq
We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on… — St Francis De Sales
Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do… — Thomas J Jackson
It (modern philosophy) certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated — John Dewey
We live by admiration, hope and love; and even as these are well and wisely fixed, in dignity of being we ascend — William Wordsworth
It is a painting that exposes in oils what Chekhov so often did in print: sunlight mocking a dark isolation of the moment. A moment… — Alexandra Johnson

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