I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.
A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.
... Herbert said of himself, with his eyes fixed on the fire, that he thought he must have committed a felony and forgotten the details of it, he felt so dejected and guilty.
Historians spend their days engaged in the literally endless task of reshaping and expanding our view of the past, while statues are fixed and inflexible.
I light candles. I meditate. And I don't believe in anything. By default I move simultaneously towards mysticism and atheism. It's not something that's ever going to get fixed.
Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.
My job, as I've said, is to break down sectionalism, vested interests and a fixed mindset of merely following precedents, so that I'm not subjected to the harmful effects of factions.
As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make because of the fixed and tight production schedule.
A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.
Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.
A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.
Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.
Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed.
For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.
My eye-balls are glass,
my limbs marble,
my face fixed
in its marble mask.
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
As governor of Lagos, I never signed a cheque and never fixed contract prices.
I want to do different projects and be versatile. I don't want to get fixed into narrative comedy.
When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way.
The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.
My eyes, I have filled with Jesus upon Whom I have fixed them at the Elevation of the Host at Holy Mass and I do not wish to replace Him with any other image
You can get fixed ideas, and it can get restrictive. So, I try to put myself in a precarious position.
It's not fair that teachers are getting low income to where they get frustrated to where they don't even want to teach.
The problem with the cable networks is the lack of money, not from personal income but as far as show budget.
Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.
Every Mainer, regardless of their income or where they live, should have access to fresh, healthy food.
If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles.
To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.
The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist.
A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.
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.
People can expect that from me as premier: If there's something to be done, something to be fixed, it'll happen.
In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.
The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main,
Seems to cast water on the burning Bear,
And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole.
I'm kind of a complainer, but not about getting old. I complain about, you know, something that can be fixed.
In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing.
What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.
When we become fixed in our perceptions we lose our ability to fly.
Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and trucks. Most people living below the official poverty line also have air conditioning, color television, and a microwave oven - and these too are not usually handed out by government entitlement programs.
Cell phones and other electronic devices are by no means unheard of in low-income neighborhoods, where children would supposedly go hungry if there were no school-lunch programs. In reality, low-income people are overweight more often than other Americans.
Opt for a fixed-rate rather than an adjustable-rate mortgage.
There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.
If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.
The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.
I grew up in an upper-income household, in an accepting environment, and with incredible educational opportunities.
There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.
The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of 'how to do'. The salvation of photography comes from the experiment.
I see problems that can be fixed because I see solutions that are actually occurring.
We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it.
If the mind be fixed on the acquirement of any object, that object will be attained.
The unique thing about Stratolaunch - one of the unique things - is it doesn't require a fixed launchpad.
For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.
Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant of a conflict between a stimulus and the whole individual.
Love is a fluxuating thing, not a fixed thing. That's why we don't understand what's happening.
We have to define and put into practice a better, more coherent and effective policy on income security.
Different artists are talking about the laws that exist and how they need to be fixed so that compensation does happen to a far fairer level. And I agree with that.
I've never dyed my hair, never fixed my teeth or gotten a tan.
I think that bias is not a fixed thing. It's not as though some people are biased and others are not. It ebbs and flows. It can be manipulated. It changes according to a person's circumstances.
Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.
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