The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.
As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles.
Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.
Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?
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.
To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.
I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust's jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection.
Public social services, infrastructural policies, and so on are vital. But a basic income should be part of a package of reforms.
The smaller the farm, the greater is the need for marketable surplus, so that the family will have cash income to meet their needs.
Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training
A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.
At 50$ per barrel of oil we shall lose about three trillion rubles of budget income
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.
Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us.
When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers.
The U.S. has some of the most significant income inequality in the developed world, yet people seem routinely to underestimate that fact.
Let's eliminate the income tax, which is one huge speed bump to long-term economic growth and recovery.
The biggest income we make is from live performances, without any doubt. That's about a 4-to-1 ratio from anything else.
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.
You can always add something to a bike, but you come to a point where you can’t take anything away and that's a fixed gear bike
Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.
I carry thoughts of you like my own personal constellation. How far away you are, my dearest friend, but no farther than those fixed stars in my soul.
Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.
There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.
Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed?
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.
While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.
The great thing about being on a television show is that it usually provides you with fairly steady income so you can go and do things.
In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits.
Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.
America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are.
The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.
In 'Comedy Nights With Kapil,' we had fixed characters and we were under a contract that we could not work for other channels. But it's not the same with 'TKSS.' I can do shows on any channel.
Discriminatory wage practices undermine women's ability to provide for their families and survive on a decent retirement income.
It's all about persevering. You know you're going to be tested. If you keep your eyes fixed on Christ, He's going to reward you.
Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating.
Prescription drug prices are skyrocketing and one-third of all seniors depend on Social Security for at least 90% of their income.
Women now have to put so much attention into their careers, and not many families can pull off a single income.
Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.
In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.
Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.
I’d play my nose now, but I’m... it’s... my nose is... out being fixed!
God is a fixed paradise; man should be a paradise in motion.
These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.
If readers tell you that stretches of dialogue or narrative were too long, that they couldn't tell who was talking, that's something that can be fixed.
Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state.
If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.
A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.
My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough'. That became my mantra.
Corporations use all sorts of complex stratagems to move their profits overseas, and thus escape the U.S. income tax.
Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment.
Sometimes a joke that doesn't work just needs a breath or a little word or the tiniest little change to be fixed.
In reality long-term travel has nothing to do with demographics, age, ideology, income, and everything to do with personal outlook.
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Everyone on the set has a mobile phone, and I found by pushing a few buttons, they could be programmed into different languages. I fixed Robbie's Coltrane to speak in Turkish.
Cuts in tax rates on individual and company income nearly always produce more revenue, not less.
I want you to know, my dear friend, that without you, I would not be the person I am today." He leaned in close and whispered, "I was a broken boy, and you fixed me. Thank you.
When you're only source of income is a $20 allowance and you rely on a Razor scooter to get around, life's not that serious.
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