Top 100 Fix Quotes
#1. Christian faith undercuts the urge to fix everything on our own, through conviction of the final helplessness of man and confidence in the providence of God
through certainty that only God can set everything to rights, and faith that in the end, He will. Man can only ameliorate, not cure.
J. Budziszewski
#2. The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.
Ogden Nash
#3. The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the results of analysis in our minds.
James Clerk Maxwell
#4. The man who comes to fix the cable approaches her when she is alone in the house. 'Is there anything to eat?' he asks. 'There are some chapatis,' she replies. 'Can I get something to eat?' he repeats.
Suketu Mehta
#5. People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something-always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons. All phenomena are empty. They contain nothing worth desiring.
Bodhidharma
#6. She's a shiksa goddess and a trapeze artist, all of that. She can fix the truck ... she's outta this world ... she's bold, inventive and fearless. That's who you wanna go in the woods with, right? Somebody who finishes your sentences for you.
Tom Waits
#7. We start from the presumption that our people are talented and want to contribute. We accept that, without meaning to, our company is stifling that talent in myriad unseen ways. Finally, we try to identify those impediments and fix them.
Edwin Catmull
#8. Actually, I've gotten myself into some difficult places because I thought I could fix somebody.
Melissa McBride
#9. out of sight, out of mind, right? That motto is just a
temporary fix - until you're forced to come face to face with what you've been running from. That's when
the mental walls you've built to hide behind come crashing down in one hard blow.
Penelope Ward
#10. You don't want to have to be the man and the woman in the relationship. I always say you want a man who can fix the toilet.
Pamela Anderson
#11. I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.
Dennis Ritchie
#12. You're responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it's up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you
for any of you.
Louis Sachar
#13. What's the point of trying to fix a world we're so briefly in?
Isaac Marion
#14. Exy had been a raw point between them since they'd met. It was the critical part of their friendship Andrew refused to acknowledge and Kevin couldn't fix, a dream Andrew wouldn't believe in and Kevin couldn't give up on.
Nora Sakavic
#15. Who, Coach Hedge? He'd try to fix Jason by whacking him upside the head.
Rick Riordan
#16. Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.
Rob Reiner
#17. I know better than to say Orlando fills this empty void I've had inside of me. He doesn't fix me, he makes me want to fix myself. Makes me realize that I can fix myself. When he's around, it's like there's nothing I can't do.
Lucy Hawkins
#18. We can fix that. We can fix anything. So the real question remains whether every problem is worth fixing.
Kaya McLaren
#19. Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business the small entrepreneur. Also, in their conglomerate form, the huge corporations have begun to challenge the very legitimacy of the state.
Gore Vidal
#20. Hearts don't break. They just stop working. An old watch from another time and no parts to fix it.
Nicola Yoon
#21. I used to have the craziest fear of losing teeth. I would have nightmares about that all the time. But it's the craziest thing, because I feel like that's one of the easiest things to fix. You just get veneers or something.
Kendall Jenner
#22. It's his gift. You see ahead. He sees beyond. And I . . ." Matty fell silent. He raised one hideously swollen arm and looked listlessly at the pus that seeped through the fabric of his sleeve. Then he laughed harshly. "I can fix a frog.
Lois Lowry
#23. I am not a visionary. I'm an engineer. I'm happy with the people who are wandering around looking at the stars but I am looking at the ground and I want to fix the pothole before I fall in.
Linus Torvalds
#24. All I'm saying is that worrying about it isn't going to fix anything. The only thing we can do is keep on with our own small thing and try hard to be good and to make life better, and know that if it all ends tomorrow that we were at least happy.
Lauren Groff
#25. When you knit, if you get something wrong and keep knitting, then when you discover it, you have to rip out all those rows of stitching to go back and fix it, Life is like that. Sometimes, it has to rip out all the stitches to go back and fix what's wrong.
Lani Diane Rich
#26. Do not fall for the illusion that by preventing errors, you won't have errors to fix. The truth is, the cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them.
Ed Catmull
#29. I was taught from a very early age that it was probably the most American thing you can do is to question what's going on and to try to fix things that you see that aren't right. I believed that as a young person, and I believe that today.
Michael Moore
#30. The awful, ironic, glorious fix for the writing doldrums is to write the next page.
Kay Kenyon
#31. it is easier to mock and deride individual fat people than to fix food deserts, school lunches, corn subsidies, inadequate or nonexistent public transportation, unsafe sidewalks and parks, healthcare, mental healthcare, the minimum wage, and your own insecurities.
Lindy West
#32. More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.
Clive Thompson
#33. I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.
Halsey
#34. A man don't always have to eat what he's standing life. If he wants, a man can fix a meal of his own choosing.
Nathan McCall
#35. Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread,
Lest mice, weasels, germane beasts, too soon
The tall hat and eyes, the fierce feet, for dead
Descry, and fix you prone in their revelling moon.
Allen Tate
#37. Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.
Tom Clancy
#38. I am in a profession that has succeeded because of its ability to fix. If your problem is fixable, we know just what to do. But if it's not? The fact that we have had no adequate answers to this question is troubling and has caused callousness, inhumanity, and extraordinary suffering.
Atul Gawande
#39. Until we embrace our mutual brokenness, our work with low-income people is likely to do more harm than good. I sometimes unintentionally reduce poor people to objects that I use to fulfill my own need to accomplish something. I am not okay, and you are not okay. But Jesus can fix us both.
Steve Corbett
#40. My sense of South Africa is that whenever we have a problem we've got to go to the brink before we sort it out. Why do we have to fuck this place up before we fix it? Let's start building now with what we have instead of breaking it first.
Jennifer Lindsey-Renton
#41. Long live the car crash hearts Cry on the couch all the poets come to life Fix me in 45
Pete Wentz
#42. That got me a look so intense I was unable to interpret it - like the way cats sometimes fix on you. What they mean by the look is completely beyond understanding; but it's meant for you, you alone.
Donald James
#43. Getting up early in the morning to fix my eyes on Jesus through prayer and reading His Word is like setting
Anne Graham Lotz
#44. I don't want to fix you. I want to help. I want to hold your hand as you journey to find yourself.
Cassie Graham
#45. You're often trying to fix a script by shooting it.
Jon Turteltaub
#46. A real man don't call the plumbers. If he gonna call himself a man, he needs to know how to fix it, on the spot
Phil Robertson
#47. Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
Alexander Pope
#48. Get your story written, you always have the second and third draft to fix things like tense, 1st vs 3rd person, the exact right word, etc.
Andromeda Edison
#49. Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth then clean up an honest mess P.C. Cast ( Grandma Redbird) ... So wish People would understand this !!
P.C. Cast
#50. While journalists cannot right every wrong, champion every cause or fix every problem, they can - through the written word - lift someone's burden for a day, make some elderly woman on a bus smile or let them know they are noticed by someone.
Regina Brett
#51. Malfunctions are inevitable. It's important to push through them during practice - versus stopping to fix and restart - so that you're prepared for one mid-competition.
Amanda Beard
#52. I always thought the time machine is the device that's missed most. Without even saying it out loud, that's the thing people want the most: The ability to take whatever it is that went wrong and fix it.
Chuck Klosterman
#53. It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.
Ed Koch
#54. He needs to be able to fix things and make it all better; to believe that you're okay so that he can believe that he's okay.
Katja Millay
#55. We ride the blades again
beside the crooked bay. You smile.
I hold you like a hole holds light.
We wear our hats and ride the knives.
They cannot fix you. They try and try.
Tunnel! Into the dark open we go.
Days you are sick, we get dressed slow.
Maria Hummel
#56. they taught me that there was value in trying to fix something even when everyone else has given up.
R.S. Grey
#57. While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things,
The fate of empires and the fall of kings;
While quacks of State must each produce his plan,
And even children lisp the Rights of Man;
Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention,
The Rights of Woman merit some attention.
Robert Burns
#58. I don't think that any person can fix FEMA. I think FEMA needs a total restructuring. I think it needs to be taken from scratch and redone. The regulations are outdated; the rules are outdated.
Ray Nagin
#60. Sometimes a soul gets pieced together wrong. But you can't just fix it - it has to get torn apart and put back the right way.
Lila Felix
#61. Where's Mom? I can't wait to tell her all about this." "She's going to be late. An appointment, I think." "Again?" Jessica pouted. "That makes three nights in a row! I thought mothers were supposed to stay home and fix dinner once in a while!
Francine Pascal
#62. Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine.
Seth Godin
#63. Films are wonderful but they do fix an identity. I can't read 'Pride and Prejudice' anymore, for instance, without imaging Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy.
Deborah Harkness
#64. Either we fix [the marriage] today, or I will divorce you tomorrow.
Ashlee Vance
#65. I'm saying it to your face. Just because you can drive a car doesn't mean you can fix one. Eating ham ain't the same as raising a pig.
Ravi Howard
#66. Through the years of my life, the older I've gotten, the more sensitive I've become to the suffering of people and to my inability to really fix that. I wish that proportion was different. I wish I could help more. Unfortunately, that's not how the equation is working out here.
Caroline Myss
#67. Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.
John F. Kennedy
#68. He slid his arms around her. "Is that how you fixed us together? Magic potions in my evening whisky?" She put her hands into his hair, twisting her fingers and tugging ever so slightly. "I didn't have to fix us. We came that way."
(Johnny and Delilah)
Deanna Raybourn
#69. At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost of health care in this country. He risked everything - some would claim he lost everything - by being so single-minded.
Gail Collins
#70. We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.
Rachael Taylor
#71. Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix your eyes on the Crucified and nothing else will be of much importance to you.
Teresa Of Avila
#72. Emphasize strengths, don't fix weaknesses.
Tim Ferriss
#73. Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.
Eve Ensler
#74. I don't believe in pain killers. I expect to fix the source of the pain.
Honeysuckle Pear
#75. Personally, I'm not a whiner. I don't believe in complaining about something if you don't have a realistic plan for how to fix it.
Madeleine George
#76. you can forget about the 'Well, where shall we go for dinner tonight?' routine and all it entails. If you really feel like a McDonald's fix - and you're in Paris - you just go.
Lionel Fisher
#77. So I started to think: "How can that happen?" ... So the guy says, "What are you doing? You come fix the radio, but you're only walking back and forth!" I say, "I'm thinking!
Richard Feynman
#78. My strong belief is that God created human beings and therefore he knows about every aspect of the human body. So if I want to fix it, I just need to stay in harmony with Him.
Ben Carson
#79. I guess some problems were too big to fix and you just hoped they would take care of themselves.
Ryan C. Thomas
#80. I don't think I'm fixed. People think that you're like a car in a body shop. You go in, they fix you, and you're out. And you work like you're brand new, it doesn't work like that.It takes constant fixing.
Demi Lovato
#81. We become like what we focus upon. Fix your eyes upon Christ and be conformed into His image.
Steven J. Lawson
#82. I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
Aaron Peirsol
#83. To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of inflation and has also led to larger increases in benefits for Social Security recipients than the income gains of typical American workers.
Steven Rattner
#84. I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.
Erin Morgenstern
#85. The voice of Shame says, I basically hate me; I need to get rid of me. The voice of Discipline says, I've got to fix me, because me is not good. God says, I love you; let me restore you.
Stasi Eldredge
#86. He was like an addict before a fix. Book freaks are like that, and not just old guys. Look at kids lining up for the latest installment of their favorite books. Stories, they're addictive." Gamache
Louise Penny
#87. I'm one of those guys who likes to piddle around in the garage and fix stuff.
Steve Cropper
#88. I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that.
Mickey Rourke
#89. To fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best.
Wallace D. Wattles
#90. When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me.
Margaret Haddix
#91. Sometimes you have a little problem and you dont fix it and then all of a sudden it aint a little
problem anymore.
Cormac McCarthy
#92. As people's capacities wane, whether through age or ill health, making their lives better often requires curbing our purely medical imperatives - resisting the urge to fiddle and fix and control.
Atul Gawande
#93. I don't really do New Year's resolutions because I don't think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you've got a problem, you need to fix it now.
Clay Aiken
#94. We British say "to put the world to rights." I've discovered that that's not the way Americans say it and people scratch their heads and say, "Funny ... what does he mean by that?" It means to fix the thing, to make it all better again.
N. T. Wright
#95. We have a lot of societal problems that we have to fix in the 1990s.
Letitia Baldrige
#96. Every time I set you free, you run further from me. What the fuck am I doing wrong? Tell me so I can fix it. So you see that I fucking love you.
Lucian Bane
#97. It's so much easier to tell other people how to do their job than fix one's own shortcoming, isn't it?
Helen Simonson
#98. No matter how much you screw up your life, you can fix it.
Will Ferrell
#99. Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But now, they seem to realize that they're the only ones who can save themselves.
James Welch
#100. Whenever I see people with their collars up, I'm tempted to point it out to them like you would for someone who has a food stain on their shirt or food in their teeth, as if to say, 'Your fashion sense is so offensive I'm assuming it's some sort of accident you'll want to fix.
Stephan Pastis
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