Fixed Quotes - Page 10

• As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn't favor the stability and spatial demands of painting.

  David Salle

  Running, Demand, Addresses

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Force

  Henry Adams (2009). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.5, The Floating Press

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• What's broken can always be fixed
  What's fixed will always be broken

  Jens Lekman

  Broken

  Song: Your Arms Around Me, Album: Night Falls Over Kortedala, 2007

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• Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have never before been seen, exposing these plainly to the eye in numbers ten times exceeding the old and familiar stars.

  Galileo Galilei

  Stars, Eye, Numbers

  "Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo". Book by Galileo Galilei, 1957.

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• In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given line by which he may chart his course, only one limit: the past.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Past, Lines, May

  "History as a System". Book by José Ortega y Gasset, transleted by ‎Helene Weyl. Chapter "Man has no nature", 1962.

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• Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife in the heart of his paradisal ideal. Somehow, somewhere, somewhen, love should be a fulfillment, and life should be a thing of bliss. That was his fixed ideal. Fata Morgana. That was the pin he tortured himself on, like a pinned-down butterfly.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Heart, Butterfly, Fighting

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8283, Delphi Classics

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• As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.

  Karl Marx

  Toil, Beast, Instruments

  Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Bibbins Aveling, Friedrich Engels (1961). “Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production”

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• Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?

  Karl Marx

  Men, Doe, Income

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx (pp. 809 - 810), 1857-1858.

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• If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from providing in a Government contract terms reasonably calculated to assure its performance even though there be no money loss through a particular default, there is no problem. But answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question, and thereby begging the real one.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Real, Loss, Government

  "Priebe & Sons., Inc. v. United States, 332 U.S. 407". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. November 17, 1947.

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• I was a bicycle messenger when Alkaline Trio was formed as a way to make ends meet and I've just always been a cyclist and then I got really into - through messengering - I got really into road bikes and fixed gears.

  Matt Skiba

  Gears, Way, Messengers

  "Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio and Blink-182 on staying young through BMX". Interview with David Anthony, music.avclub.com. May 27, 2015.

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• I am not dead yet! I can still call forth a piece of soul and set it down in color, fixed forever.

  Keri Hulme

  Color, Forever, Soul

  Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.74, LSU Press

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• Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but also you will possess a fixed base, an invariant pattern, opening upon all further developments of understanding.

  Bernard Lonergan

  Understanding, Patterns, Development

  Bernard Lonergan (1992). “Insight: A Study of Human Understanding”, p.70, University of Toronto Press

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• The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

  Charles Dickens

  Water, Listening, May

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• Did men but know that there was a fixed limit to their woes, they would be able, in some measure, to defy the religious fictions and menaces of the poets; but now, since we must fear eternal punishment at death, there is no mode, no means, of resisting them.

  Lucretius

  Religious, Mean, Men

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1898). “Lucretius On the Nature of Things”, p.8

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• With marriage and fatherhood, I've finally found two fixed points in my life. They've taught me patience. They've also taught me that I don't need to feel guilty about being happy. My emotional seasons are less extreme.

  Pete Wentz

  Emotional, Two, Fatherhood

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• Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Fate, Law

  Alexander Pope (1776). “An essay on man. Enlarged and improved by the author. With notes, critical and explanatory”, p.21

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• It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.; and it is one of the signs of the highest power in a writer to check all such habits of thought, and to keep his eyes fixed firmly on the pure fact , out of which if any feeling comes to him or his reader, he knows it must be a true one.

  John Ruskin

  Eye, Talking, Sea

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.69, University of Virginia Press

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• Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.

  Hesiod

  Brother, Witness, Sufficient

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• It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been in trouble before, and we got through it, and I believe they can do it again... Let's face it, if your car breaks down, you're not going to take it to the White House to get fixed. But, if your company breaks down, you've got to go to the experts on the ground, not the bureaucrats.

  Lee Iacocca

  Pain, Believe, White

  "Lee Iacocca On Chrysler's Bankruptcy" by Julie Halpert, www.newsweek.com. April 29, 2009.

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• It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.

  Frank Herbert

  Events, Fool, Form

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.286, Penguin

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• Thanks to the scientific method, most people in "developed" countries have an outlook of mild deism. We assume things like weather and disease operate according to fixed natural laws. Every so often, though, problems impinge on us so directly that we stretch beyond that mildly deistic stance and ask God to intervene. When a drought drags on too long, we pray for rain. When a young mother gets a diagnosis of cervical cancer, we solicit prayers for her healing. We beseech God as if trying to talk God into something God otherwise might not want to do.

  Philip Yancey

  Country, Mother, Prayer

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• Trust arises from the mind's instinctive feeling after fixed realities, after the substance of every shadow, the base of all appearance, the everlasting amid change.

  James Martineau

  Reality, Feelings, Mind

  James Martineau (1879). “Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons”

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• It is in time of peace that the value of life is fixed. The test of war reveals it.

  Walter Lippmann

  War, Tests, Life Is

  Walter Lippmann “Force and Ideas: The Early Writings”, Transaction Publishers

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• The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of these countless snow-stars comes whirling to earth...these glorious spangles, the sweeping of heaven's floor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Flower, Law

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.89, BookBaby

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• Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and wandering shepherd, into that of social man, gathered into fixed communities and surrounding himself with the comforts and blessings of neighborhood, country, and home. It is agriculture alone, that fixes men in stationary dwellings, in villages, in towns, and cities, and enables the work of civilizations, in all its branches, to go on.

  Edward Everett

  Country, Home, Men

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