Fixed Quotes

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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke… — Thomas a Kempis
The real thing is that you are suffering from your expectations. When they are not fulfilled - and they are never going to be fulfilled… — Rajneesh
There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of… — Henry Ward Beecher
When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never… — DeForest Soaries
Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a… — Andre Kertesz
There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded,… — John Dewey
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on. — Henry Fielding
You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault wasn't… — Amitav Ghosh
Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed. — Carl Rogers
There are no fixed points in space, — Merce Cunningham
The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of 'how to do'. The salvation of photography comes from the experiment. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to… — Bridget Riley
Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight. — Willem de Kooning
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. — F. H. Bradley
I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it. — Manny Pacquiao
Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one… — David Lehman
I give it as my fixed opinion, that but for our graduated cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would… — Winfield Scott
I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and religion… — Christopher Columbus
The limits of pleasures are as yet neither known nor fixed, and we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit. — Horace

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