Suitable Quotes

217 quotes by 197 authors

With the myriad of new Bible translations on the market today, few stand out. The ESV is one of the few, and surpasses the others… — Daniel B. Wallace
I love my mother dearly, but it wouldn't be suitable for me to live with her all the time. — Keith Emerson
The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long… — Hart Crane
A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric. — Robert Rauschenberg
Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings,… — Saul Bellow
We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation. — Barry Commoner
If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might… — Marshall McLuhan
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. — Plato
There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them. — Plato
Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And… — Herodotus
A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour, in a full… — David Hume
Cord blood stem cell units have been shown to be a suitable alternative to adult bone marrow for the treatment of many diseases, including sickle… — Nathan Deal
A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that… — Malcolm Muggeridge
An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object. — Georg Baselitz
Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their child. They should… — Diane Ravitch
February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months… — Anna Quindlen
We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating, but… — Francis Galton
A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim. — Aleister Crowley
The New Yorker has always dealt with experience not by trying to understand it but by prescribing the attitude to be adopted toward it. This… — Robert Warshow

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