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Quotes About Fixed

Eugene accepted the legitimacy of such phenomena, much as he and his brothers accepted the pageantry and feuds of World Federation professional wrestling, not caring much if some of the matches were fixed.
~ Donna Tartt
The lines change. Did you know that? Destiny is not fixed. It's a probable path, but life alters it. Otherwise, how boring life would be, non?
~ M.J. Rose
In a way, you fixed me, but somehow, you also broke me.
~ Unknown
To align oneself with the real while intimating that others are at play, approximate, or in imitation can feel good. But any fixed claim on realness, especially when it is tied to an identity, also has a finger in psychosis.
~ Maggie Nelson
To align oneself with the real while intimating that others are at play, approximate, or in imitation can feel good. But any fixed claim on realness, especially when it is tied to an identity, also has a finger in psychosis. If a man who thinks he is a king is mad, a king who thinks he is a king is no less so.
~ Maggie Nelson
I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
~ Manny Pacquiao
the path that he followed being fixed for ever in his memory by the general excitement due to being in a strange place, to doing unusual things,
~ Marcel Proust
Once I had surrendered motion, despond fixed me. After a while I slid off the rock I was perched on, lay down, and rolled over on my face. In time feeling was so narrowed that even hopelessness was squeezed out. I all but was not.
~ John Myers Myers
Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
~ John Fowles
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
Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.
~ Richard J. Foster
The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.
~ Terry Eagleton
Rapid-collage prevents any elevating movement toward a fixed goal. To 'be nowhere' is to let oneself be.
~ Joshua L. Goldberg
He understood why his customers wanted to play something that looked fixed but which also left room for randomness and hope.
~ Min Jin Lee
and Mozasu believed that life was like this game where the player could adjust the dials yet also expect uncertainty of factors he couldn't control. He understood why his customers wanted to play something that looked fixed but which also left room for randomness and hope.
~ Min Jin Lee
The sun does not set, nor rises, the sun is fixed at one single point.
~ Unknown
I think I will never be any different than this
~ Naomi Alderman
No connection, you would agree. But things can come together in strange ways. The wood was at the center, the hub of the wheel. All wheels must have a hub. A ferris wheel has one, as the sun is the hub of the wheeling calendar. Fixed points they are, and best left undisturbed, for without them, nothing holds together. But sometimes people find this out too late.
~ Natalie Babbitt
For the most part we don't realise how fixed are our judgements of others, how founded they are in first impressions and the smallest evidences we seize on to prove to ourselves that, see, we were right.
~ Niall Williams
The animals' neural pathways have woven themselves into a new map that corresponds to the new arrangement of nerves in their hands. At first, he can't believe what he's seen. Like every other neuroscientist, he's been taught that the structure of the adult brain is fixed.
~ Unknown
Illusion is whatever is fixed or definable, and reality is best understood as its negation…
~ Northrop Frye
There was some problem with the regular elevators as some gentleman in a suit and tie was learning. He was poking the up button with the conviction that if he pushed it enough times the out of order sign would magically change to read Fixed.
~ Unknown
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
~ Paul Gauguin
NOT TO VARY WITH THE WRITER'S HAND BUT FIXED IN TIME HAVING BEEN VERIFIED IN PROOF Friend you stand on sacred ground THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE
~ Paulette Jiles