Fitting Quotes
256 quotes by 241 authors
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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
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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
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It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.
— Robert Ballard
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
— Warren G. Bennis
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with badly-fitting panty hose all over.
— Roger Caras
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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...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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