Suitable Quotes

217 quotes by 197 authors

I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people. — Karen Armstrong
The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply… — Teresa of Avila
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society? — Honore de Balzac
My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable. — Brigitte Bardot
There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives. — Scott Adams
The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear. — Sarah Bernhardt
When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love… — Jim Bishop
Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called… — Graydon Carter
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the… — Thomas Aquinas
Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every… — Thomas Aquinas
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was… — Oscar Wilde
I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you might like to… — Alistair Cooke
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered a… — Louis Kronenberger
Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who… — Aldous Huxley
They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert. — Victor Borge
I think it is the general rule that the originator of a new idea is not the most suitable person to develop it, because his… — Paul Dirac
We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation.… — Richard Dawkins
A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature? — Marcus Aurelius

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