It is fitting for a great nation to yield.

I have often wondered how they manage to get return envelopes which miss, by one-quarter of an inch, fitting the blank you are supposed…

— Robert Benchley

The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and…

— Jasper Fforde

I have always been thinking about the sounds and shades and aromas of words - fitting them together or disrupting their customary march -…

— Robert Pinsky

I have a dress fitting to get to at three.' (Simon) 'Cool,' said Kyle, slinging his messenger bag over his shoulder and heading for…

— Cassandra Clare

There are a few people out there with whom you fit just so, and, amazingly, you keep fitting just so even after you have…

— Lauren F. Winner

Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .

— Luther Burbank

Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere.

— John Sullivan Dwight

Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I've spent so many years waiting for publishers…

— Richard Bach

During the Olympics they're really strict about what you're allowed to wear. You get a lot of clothes, but everything is pre-ordered. We had…

— Henrik Lundqvist

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we…

— Anonymous

Christianity without the cross is nothing. The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn and defeat. But in no true…

— Lord Kelvin

They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an…

— William John Wills

I was born in St. Louis and lived in Pittsburgh for a bit, before my family moved to Nigeria, where they're from. We lived…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.

— Wil Wheaton