Fitted Quotes

183 quotes by 167 authors

Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They… — Thomas B. Macaulay
When I see guys in bars wearing the real fitted kind of Calvin Klein v-neck t-shirts I just want to go up to them and… — Janeane Garofalo
I would get songs sung to me, like 'Old Man River, 'or kids would call me Mississippi and things like that. At the time, I… — River Phoenix
It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something… — Patrick Macnee
I like to wear a lot of baggy things. Like, I buy guys' clothes, like T-shirts, and I cut them up and wear them loose,… — Taylor Momsen
I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way.… — Kenneth Branagh
Life is too short to be unhappy in business. If business were not a part of the joy of living, we might almost say that… — George L. Brown
The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness… — Carl Jung
Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural… — Carl Jung
We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that… — Seneca the Younger
My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's… — Jefferson Davis
She had six months at most left to live. She had cancer, she hissed. A filthy growth eating her insides away. There was an operation,… — Helen Hodgman
God's the seamstress that tailor-fitted my pain. — Curtis Jackson
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . We might as well require a man… — Thomas Jefferson
The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has… — Plato
...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone. — Plato
Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object. — Plotinus
One thing is very clear: the safest place and the best protection against the moral and spiritual diseases is a stable home and family. This… — Boyd K. Packer
A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own… — Marcel Proust
Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with… — Jared Sparks

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