Fixations Quotes

#1. If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.

Jonah Goldberg

#2. A fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.

Isabel Allende

#3. The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions ... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.

Dalai Lama

#4. It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#5. Kershaw did not minimise the historical role played by his insane, ideological fixations, but he did illustrate that without the readiness of many people to work for the man in charge, there would have been no way he could have achieved his murderous aims.

Volker Ullrich

#6. But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

Thomas Lynch

#7. Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.

Sybil Adelman

#8. Detach from emotions and desires; get rid of any fixations.

Zhuge Liang

#9. I have had death threats from people with fixations.

Enya

#10. We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but novelists have taken time - sometimes time out from their realist fixations - to source and satirise the speech and power we rely on.

Andrew O'Hagan

#11. Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.

Frederick Lenz

#12. It's weird but I've never really been the type to have fixations on the leading man actor. I've always been drawn more to the rock star. I love a guy on the microphone commanding an audience.

Amanda Crew

#13. There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#14. We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives. What we do is a large part of what we are

Alan Ryan

#15. Man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is only fully a human being when he plays

Friedrich Schiller

#16. What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?

Wislawa Szymborska

#17. Love is always more than friendship.

Will Advise

#18. The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

George Bernard Shaw

#19. I don't know why I've spent over half of
My life talking about dying

Wesley Eisold

#20. Children give life a reason to be - they make life.

Len Goodman

#21. He shut the door behind him and set about locking many dead bolts before finally sliding the chain across.
"Tough neighborhood ?" I asked. "I saw a girl on a My Little Pony bike outside ; she looked kind of nasty.

Karina Halle

#22. If I don't trust [in] it, then it's worthless.

John Goodman

#23. We are starved for quiet, to hear the sound of sheer silence that is the presence of God himself.

Ruth Haley Barton

#24. If you keep an active life, you stay young.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. You're not a nutcase if you want to go see a psychiatrist.

Mike Wallace

#26. If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

Alan W. Watts

#27. I was a lucky kid. You could have got 10 kids to be in The Byrds who were better than I was.

Chris Hillman