Top 25 Quotes About Fixity
#1. Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference.
Ambrose Bierce
#2. Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
Octavio Paz
#3. Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.
D.H. Lawrence
#4. Wild and urban at the same time - that's the type of woman I'm with.
Michael Winter
#5. Alphas, like Scarface, can be drug dealers, but it's still a little grimy.
A.D. Aliwat
#6. Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.
Socrates
#7. For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support.
Rabindranath Tagore
#8. Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.
Octavio Paz
#9. Isn't fixity the hallmark of the living dead?
Tom Robbins
#10. Initially, the laser was called an invention looking for a job.
G. Harry Stine
#12. Fortitude ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.
Hilary Mantel
#13. The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Marcel Proust
#14. The riches they receive will be in exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their purpose, the steadiness of their faith, and the depth of their gratitude.
Wallace D. Wattles
#15. We need to bear in mind that our opinion of other people, our ties with friends or family, have only the semblance of fixity and are, in fact, as eternally fluid as the sea.
Marcel Proust
#16. If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.
Michael Arndt
#17. After the maxi yuan depreciation of 1994 and until 2005, exchange-rate fixity was the order of the day, with little movement in the CNY/USD rate.
Steve Hanke
#18. I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.
Toyo Ito
#19. I must not undervalue my work simply because I enjoy it. A working artist understands his worth and lives by it.
Mary Robinette Kowal
#20. Nothing comes at all
never anything. And I cannot accustom myself to that. It is this monotony, this absolute fixity in life, that is the hardest thing for me to endure. I should like to go away from here. Go away? But where and how? I do not know, and I stay.
Octave Mirbeau
#21. It is contrary to the will of God to eat delicate food hastily.
Zhang Zhao
#22. Indeed the study of the Easy as we know it today, if undertaken in a really direct way, would be of great assistance towards the understanding of all Antiquity, on account of that very quality of fixity and stability.
Rene Guenon
#23. When agents of the Turkmen secret police came up short in arrests of counterrevolutionaries in 1937-38, they filled their quota by going to the Ashgabat marketplace and rounding up all men who wore beards, on theory that they were likely to be mullahs.
Douglas Northrop
#24. There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be hard knocks, morning, noon, and night, and fixity of purpose.
Charles M. Schwab
