Fixed Quotes - Page 19

• We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Journey, Reality, Thinking

  "The Crossing". Book by Cormac McCarthy, 1994.

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• But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

  Lord Byron

  Marriage, Knowing, Unhappy

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.333, Routledge

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• There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.

  Richard Cecil

  Entity, Policy

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• In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.

  Bruce Beresford

  Challenges, Viewpoints, Opera

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• On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through.

  Bruce Beresford

  Directors, Watches, Viewpoints

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• I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term.

  Jim Bolger

  Government, Democracy, Election

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• There are so many flaws, .. I don't think they can be fixed.

  James Carroll

  Thinking, Flaws

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• However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue, the later on Imperial grandeur the fact remains that classicism depended on a fixed and rational philosophy; whereas the spirit of the Revolution was one of change and of emotion.

  Kenneth Clark

  Philosophy, Phases, May

  Kenneth Clark (1973). “The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art”

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• Under the Enrichment Laws, consumers have to spend a fixed quota of dollars each month, depending on their strata. Hoarding is an anti-corpocratic crime.

  David Mitchell

  Law, Each Month, Hoarding

  "Cloud Atlas". Book by David Mitchell, "An Orison of Sonmi~451", p. 237, 2004.

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• I have so fixed the habit in my own mind that I never raise a glass of water to my lips without a moment's asking of God's blessing. I never seal a letter without putting a word of prayer under the seal. I never take a letter from the post without a brief sending of my thoughts heavenward. I never change classes in the section room without a minute's petition on the cadets who go out and those who come in.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Prayer, War, Blessing

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• Pain - physical, emotional and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed or "fixed." Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times when it's really important to tune into that message and just listen to it. When we don't listen, our understanding of the world gets more and more distorted, and we become capable of doing things we very often regret.

  Karyn Kusama

  Spiritual, Pain, Regret

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One; especially since the light of the fixed stars is of the same nature with the light of the sun.

  Isaac Newton

  Beautiful, Wise, Stars

  Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)”, p.1023, Delphi Classics

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• Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each part by itself... We must keep our attention fixed on the whole and on the interconnection between the parts. The same is true of our intellectual life. It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.

  Max Planck

  Art, Cutting, Taught Us

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• Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.

  Richard J. Foster

  Commitment, Discipline, Gains

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• I’d play my nose now, but I’m... it’s... my nose is... out being fixed!

  Michael Nesmith

  Noses

  "Fictional character: Mike". TV Series "The Monkees" ("Hillbilly Honeymoon", 1967), 1966-1968.

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• I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Principles, Standards

  Abraham Lincoln (2002). “Conversations With Lincoln”, p.335, Transaction Publishers

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• It turns out most of the conclusions that I've come to in life have equally valid contradictions. I think it's true you need to make a plan, set a goal and stick to it, but I would also advise: Don't keep your eyes so fixed on your goal that you miss what sneaks up to surprise you, because magic will come from unexpected places.

  Paul Reiser

  Eye, Thinking, Goal

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• I love cinema. I think the risk of the aesthetics being fixed is compensated by other advantages. Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

  Yann Martel

  Powerful, Thinking, Risk

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews. We know very well-known fixed places like Auschwitz, Birkenau, Treblinka, and Beltzec. Instead, war can live in a couple having a spat, when we say, "That was a real war." We very rarely have the Holocaust live in the terms of today. And I think that's a problem, because it becomes ancient history.

  Yann Martel

  Couple, Real, War

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We offer such false hopes to people that every medical problem can be fixed even when you're starting to deal with an 80- or a 90-year-old body that is breaking down in multiple ways and doesn't have that resilience. And so it doesn't surprise me that someone who is completely unprepared for death may say, "Doc, do everything."

  Katy Butler

  Medical Problems, Years, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I was focused on building things from an early age. When I was about 3, our toilet broke, and my mother was ready to call the plumber. I told her I would fix it and asked her to get my Richard Scarry book 'How Things Work in Busytown.' Between the picture of a toilet and the text she read to me explaining how the parts worked, I fixed it.

  Colin Angle

  Mother, Book, Age

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• For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living.

  Bruce Lee

  Moving, Way, Path

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• So long as man is capable of Prema, Dharma will exist, do not doubt it. When that Prema is fixed on the Lord, your mental make-up will slowly and steadily undergo a revolutionary change; then, man will share in the sorrows and joys of his fellow-beings; thereafter he contacts the very source of the Bliss that is beyond the temporary gains and losses of this world.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Loss, Men, Long

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• When things go awry, trust powers the generators until the problem is fixed.

  Max De Pree

  Problem, Generator

  Max De Pree (1997). “Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community”, Jossey-Bass

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• Preconceived ideas are like searchlights which illumine the path of the experimenter and serve him as a guide to interrogate nature. They become a danger only if he transforms them into fixed ideas-this is why I should like to see these profound words inscribed on the threshold of all the temples of science: 'The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.'

  Louis Pasteur

  Believe, Ideas, Profound

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