Fixity Quotes

20 quotes by 17 authors

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality. — Toyo Ito
Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol… — Rabindranath Tagore
Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity,… — D. H. Lawrence
Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you. — Hilary Mantel
A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own… — Marcel Proust
Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the… — Ambrose Bierce
If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars — Francisco Largo Caballero
In this world that God (or Mother Nature) created, it is always hazard and novelty-hazard and novelty-which assert themselves, thereby rendering notions of fixity absurd.… — Tom Robbins
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. — Marcel Proust
In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as… — John Dewey
Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and earth you run… — Galileo Galilei
Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but… — Tom Robbins
For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space ;… — Virginia Woolf
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. — Octavio Paz
The riches they receive will be in exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their purpose, the steadiness of their faith,… — Wallace D. Wattles
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation… — Henry Brooks Adams
We can consider ourselves committed only when we have fixity of purpose and show sincerity and steadfastness in working towards its realization. Our commitment binds… — T Joseph Benziger

Who Wrote These Fixity Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 20 Fixity Quotes as follows: