Fitted Quotes

183 quotes by 167 authors

I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever… — Roger Bannister
The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to… — Wendell Berry
But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till… — Edwin Booth
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Thus is Jesus in all respects fitted for his mighty work of redeeming. He is very man and very God. He is the seed of… — Horatius Bonar
You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and,… — Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom… — William Cowper
& I think I like him better with the fitted cap on He aint even gotta try to put the mack on — Nicki Minaj
Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less… — Charles Dudley Warner
America has never forgotten - and will never forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path - the… — Bernard Baruch
Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such… — Michael Faraday
But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has a rather crude… — Jacob Bronowski
I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to… — Queen Victoria
He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as… — Charles Perrault
Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only ones… — H. Bentley Glass
Intuition comes from the whole person, from a place that includes the conscious and the unconscious. The total result of all feelings and perceptions manifests… — Michele Cassou
I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you… — Adelbert von Chamisso
Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care. — Norman Cousins
More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are… — George Washington Carver
Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise… — Joseph Story

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