Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.
Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.
The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in advance that it can never be modified.
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
Citizens often think of a state's interests in terms of the promotion of ideals such as democracy, a particular way of life, or other values which they endorse or see as part of their historical continuity and identity. In this domain as in others values are not fixed, and so a state's interests are dynamic and in a constant state of negotiation and construction.
Prayer can truly change your life. For it turns your attention away from yourself and directs your mind and your heart toward the Lord. If we look only at ourselves, with our own limitations and sins, we quickly give way to sadness and discouragement. But if we keep our eyes fixed on the Lord, then our hearts are filled with hope, our minds are washed n the light of truth, and we come to know the fullness of the Gospel with all is promise and life.
The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.
It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.
A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.
The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
The window can be fixed, Katerina. I'm far more concerned about him.
Painted faces, sun burnt skin, fixed expressions, smiles worn thin.
I like my small camper. I just do not want to return to a fixed home. I cannot stand being in one place. I must keep moving.
One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.
When things go awry, trust powers the generators until the problem is fixed.
A mental image gives you a framework upon which to work. It is like the drawing of the architect, or the map of the explorer. Think over this for a few moments until you get the idea firmly fixed in your mind.
Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.
The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.