Fitting Quotes

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It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi
It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day… — Russell Baker
It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest. — Robert Ballard
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. — Warren G. Bennis
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting… — Bill Bowerman
I notice if I'm too fat or if I'm too ugly or there's skin hanging or whatever. When my clothes start not fitting, I get… — Marina Abramovic
Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you… — Augusten Burroughs
Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then 15? months old. Seeing how… — Charles Darwin
Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results. — Seth Godin
Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest, and so often do we… — Marcello Malpighi
They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition,… — William John Wills
It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with badly-fitting panty hose all over. — Roger Caras
The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is… — Charles Spurgeon
Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply… — Rajneesh
Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there… — Muriel Barbery
There is a norm, there is a model of the way things are supposed to be. When you find yourself outside of that, when you… — Scott Lively
And when we come to refute them, we shall show in its fitting place that this class of men [i.e., the gnostics] has been instigated… — Irenaeus of Lyons
You can set up an altar to God in your minds by means of prayer. And so it is fitting to pray at your trade,… — Saint John Chrysostom
...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most venomous thing in… — Thomas Sprat

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