Fixed Views Quotes

#1. we don't realize how many of our fixed views of the world are based on limited samples of reality.

Bernard Roth

#2. My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#3. Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#4. Little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property

Jane Austen

#5. When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.

Karl Kraus

#6. That was just like a ride," he said. "Did you see me going around in there? Like a fun house, right? Like an amusement park. I ride all those rides. I'm used to that sort of thing. I sit right up front.

Janet Evanovich

#7. If you are a lousy teacher, you should be fired.

Geoffrey Canada

#8. It's autumn in New York. The colors are changing - yellow, the browns, the greens, the oranges. And that's just the tap water.

David Letterman

#9. My body was jerking and shaking, and I remembered John when he was in the Tunnels with Lena. The weird jerking and twitching he seemed unable to control.
Was this what it felt like to be in the grip of Abraham Ravenwood?

Kami Garcia

#10. Status: the perpetual carrot that entices us from the front and prods us in the back.

Fennel Hudson

#11. There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.

Deepak Chopra

#12. If you can't afford the good food or if you can't afford health care or if you don't have a job or if your car is dangerous because you can't get it fixed and you DIE, you just lost the game-bzzzzz-thanks for playing extreme capitalism.

Marc Maron

#13. The entire animal rights movement in the United States reacted with unfettered glee at the Ban in England ... We view this act of parliament as one of the most important actions in the history of the animal rights movement. This will energise our efforts to stop hunting with hounds.

Wayne Pacelle

#14. When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest.

Charles Caleb Colton

#15. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of someone or other of their

Jane Austen

#16. He'd been respectable and respectful, always treating women

Melody Anne

#17. Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody.

Dennis Hopper

#18. We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.

Asger Jorn

#19. If I thought being kissed by Tyr had been what kissing was all about, I had been wrong. This kiss trampled Tyr's kiss, threw it to the ground, and danced on its grave.

Eilis O'Neal

#20. Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.

Carl Sandburg

#21. He remembered Simon warning him, with wryness, that Clary had the nuclear bomb of boyfriends.

Cassandra Clare