Quotessence
Home / Topics / Fixed Quotes

Fixed Quotes

Browse 1268 quotes about Fixed.

Related topics

IfsPeopleWorldEyeMenThinkingMindWayKnowsMayIdeasNeedsWantEndsShouldStarsProblemHas BeensLawCertainBelieveDoeFactsHeartMeanFirstsMomentsPersonsWellsFormHumansLongRealitySaidStillsTryingTwoPrinciplesEarthMatterArtGivingLightMovingBodyBrokenPastMadeSeemsKindSoulFeelsHandsHeavenKnownScienceYearsDifferentLittlesNumbersProcessPurposeChildrenForeverHabitSometimesWholeAttentionFacesHardI CanOrderBeliefCharacterDoneGivenLife IsMemoriesObjectsQualitySelfTogetherTurnsUniverseAmericaLanguageLifeLooksMoralPathPlanetsReasonStatesSubjectsTodayValuesConstantCountryFeltFoundmore

Fixed Quotes

“Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.”

KnowsFirstsMadeReligionSecretEnglandSurpriseLondonPassingPassingsFixedGesturesTowersElectricityMonumentTravellerNewness
Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
Create image

“The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.”

MindFirstsLongHas BeensActionMovingFoundCausesProcessEffectsErrorsInstinctNotionReactionsDefinedFixedAssociationPremonitionAction And Reaction
Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
Create image

“Geometry is of much assistance in architecture, and in particular it teaches us the use of the rule and compasses, by which especially we acquire readiness in making plans for buildings in their grounds, and rightly apply the square, the level, and the plummet. By means of optics the light in buildings can be drawn from fixed quarters of the sky. Difficult questions involving symmetry are solved by means of geometrical theories and methods.”

MeanUseLightDifficultLevelsTeachPlansSkyBuildingParticularTheoryMethodArchitectureFixedAcquireSquaresQuartersAssistanceCompassGeometryInvolvingReadinessSymmetryOpticsDifficult Questions
Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Create image

“Where woman has taken her place in business she has found her method ready-shaped for her, and following that, she does her work,if with a certain amount of monotony, yet without undue fatigue. Her hours are fixed, and as a rule she gets needful change of scene as she goes to her business and returns to her home or the place where she lives. But the "home- maker" has not, nor can she have, any such change, and her hours are always from the rising of the sun beyond the going down of the same.”

IfsDoeHomeCertainFoundHoursSunTakenReadyReturnAmountSceneMethodFollowingFixedRisingMakersFatigueMonotonyWorking Women
Author:Anna Brackett
Create image

“Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense, when it involves death, we are told by an eye witness in "Wakefield on the Punishment of Death," is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five and twenty,--sufficient, to dash the brown hair with grey, and to bleach the grey to white.”

HeartLittlesEyeLinesWhiteFiveConditionsSubjectsHairMonthsTwentiesPunishmentWitnessSuspenseFixedSufficientBrownGreyConvictsBleachBrown Hair
Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Create image

“A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly felt at the time, may be transitory. A letter captures the mood of the moment. The transitory becomes immutably fixed, part of the evidence for the prosecution or the defence.”

MayMomentsFeltEvidenceLettersPrejudiceMoodFixedRevelationsCaptureRevealingDefenceDeceptiveTransitoryInconsistencyIrrationalityProsecution
Book:Time to Be in Earnest
Create image

“Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes.”

LittlesEyeSchoolFeetAuthorityBenefitsHumbleViolentLiftsGentleFixedCustomsSlipsMistressFuriousCountenanceTreacherousHumble Beginnings
Author:Michel de Montaigne
Create image

“Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and fixed bright images of souls that have passed away; like magic lyres, whose masters have bequeathed them to the world, and which yet, of themselves, ring with unforgotten music, while the hands that touched their chords have crumbled into dust. Books! they are the embodiments and manifestations of departed minds--the living organs through which those who are dead yet speak to us.”

WorldMindBookSoulHandsSpeakOpinionMagicMastersMirrorsCaughtIntellectRingsChosenDustFixedManifestationAspirationTouchedOrgansChordsEmbodimentWondrousPassed AwayDeparted
Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Create image

“We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. This conservatism has penalized our results but it is the only behavior that leaves us comfortable, considering our fiduciary obligations to policyholders, depositors, lenders and the many equity holders who have committed unusually large portions of their net worth to our care.”

LongUseCareOpportunityTermInterestingResultsBalanceBehaviorComfortableBasesStructureRateInvestingCommittedDebtObligationFixedLong TermRejectsPortionsConsideringSheetsEquityConservatismNet WorthLendersBalance SheetsFiduciary
Author:Warren Buffett
Create image

“The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence as a right of all Americans, as well as on the self-improvement shelves of every American bookstore. Yet the scientific evidence makes it seem unlikely that you can change your level of happiness in any sustainable way. It suggests that we each have a fixed range for happiness just as we do for weight. And just as dieters almost always regain the weight they lose, sad people don't become lastingly happy, and happy people don't become lastingly sad.”

PeopleWayWellsSelfSeemsLosesLevelsSelf ImprovementEvidenceWeightIndependenceImprovementPursuitRangeFixedShelvesDeclarationUnlikelyPursuit Of HappinessBookstoresDeclaration Of IndependenceHappy PeopleScientific Evidence
Book:Authentic Happiness
Create image

“As an attorney, I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it very loose, the line of the law so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are nearly always short of blatant theft or cold-blooded murder safely on the right side. That's a daunting thing to realize but true.”

WayEndsPlayLawSidesRealizingLinesDealsCenturyColdMurderFixedStringsTheftMarbleAttorneyArcsUnchangeableEngravedCold Blooded
Author:Dean Koontz
Create image

“... We have seen dog-tired Members of Congress marching lockstep ahead with their eyes fixed only on the end of the 100 Days of the 1995 Republican 'Contract with America' reform efforts. Many of the changes wrought by the House were passed without the benefit of a single hearing, or at best with a minimal legislative record. Is this what Jefferson and Madison had in mind?”

MindEndsEyeAmericaHouseEffortRecordsDogInternetRepublicanMembersBenefitsTiredCongressHearingReformFixedContractsFree SpeechMadison
Author:John Gibbons
Create image

“Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterised by solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the domain of vegetal imagination. (...) This is the truth that the shamans have always known and practiced. Awareness of the green side of mind was called Veriditas by the twelfth century visionary Hildegard Von Bingen.”

IfsMindStatesMovingSpiritSidesImaginationAnimalExistenceAttentionConsciousnessKnownCenturyAwarenessMovementApproachGreenPlantEndureFeaturesFixedCharacteristicsDimensionsVegetablesDomainVisionariesHold FastSwarmsMigrate
Author:Terence McKenna
Create image

“There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws as fixed as the decrees of the Medes and Persians. But through those statutes you reach the songs, drudgery leads to delight. The law of Christ brings the liberty of Christ. Keep His statutes, and they become songs. The other side of commandment is conquest. What seems restraint to the outsider means release to you.”

IfsTryingMeanPlaySeemsRunningLawSongSidesChristLibertyDelightReleasePianoFixedOutsidersCommandmentsRestraintConquestDecreeDrudgeryStatutes
Book:The Incredible Power of Kingdom Authority: Getting an Upper Hand on the Underworld
Create image

“How can there be methods and systems to arrive at something that is living? To that which is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way, a definite path, but not to that which is living. Do not reduce reality to a static thing and then invent methods to reach it. ...Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. It has no resting place, no form, no organized institution, no philosophy. When you see that, you will understand that this living thing is also what you are. You cannot express and be alive through static, put-together form, through stylized movement.”

WayPhilosophyRealityTogetherFormPathAliveMovementTruth IsMethodInstitutionsFixedOrganizedDefiniteLiving ThingsStatic
Author:Bruce Lee
Create image

“Big banks churn out page after page of incomprehensible fine print to obscure the cost and risks of checking accounts, credit cards, mortgages and other financial products. The result is that consumers can't make direct product comparisons, markets aren't competitive, and costs are higher. If the playing field is leveled and the broken market fixed, a lot more money will stay in the pockets of millions of hard-working families. That's real stimulus - money to families, without increasing our national debt.”

IfsRealHardBigsResultsMillionsRiskFieldsProductsHard WorkBrokenFineHigherCostPagesDirectAccountsFinancialCreditDebtCardsConsumersFixedPocketsComparisonPrintMore MoneyObscureStimulusMortgageCredit CardPlaying FieldsNational DebtFine PrintChecking Accounts
Author:Elizabeth Warren
Create image

“Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances; simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we can't necessarily go ahead and make everything fit into neat, controllable, simple schedules. But the point is, simplicity is: how do we keep our eyes fixed and focused on Christ, no matter where we are?”

ChildrenMatterEyeChristSimpleFocusFitCircumstancesOur ChildrenSimplicityFocusedFixedMidstSchedulesNeat
Author:Ann Voskamp
Create image