Top Fixed Quotes
I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on.
Georg Baselitz
Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before.
Godfried Danneels
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.
Marilyn Hacker
My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.
Joshua Lederberg
The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
Francis Wright
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
Joseph Joubert 
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
Otto Weininger
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Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
Susan Sontag
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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 the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
Jack Schwartz
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Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
Abraham Clark
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
Michel de Montaigne
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Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
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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
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Popular Fixed Authors
Samuel JohnsonMarcus Tullius CiceroOrison Swett MardenGeorge EliotMichel de MontaigneRobert FrostLao TzuThomas PaineSusan SontagWilliam FaulknerLeonardo da VinciRobert Anton WilsonErich FrommDag HammarskjoldChuck Palahniuk
Emma GoldmanJoseph JoubertHenry FieldingGeorge Henry LewesArthur MillerGiacomo CasanovaJohn EnglerMilton FriedmanNicholas D. KristofDavid ByrneBarbra StreisandMax BeerbohmJoshua LederbergJoe BacaJennifer Granholm
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