Suitable Quotes

217 quotes by 197 authors

I believe that there is a whole set of issues in the world - environment, proliferation, energy, cyberspace - that can only be dealt with… — Henry A. Kissinger
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule. — Moliere
How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats! — John Burroughs
Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown… — Alexander Pope
That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose. — Richard Whately
He is a pandit (man of knowledge) who speaks what is suitable to the occasion, who renders loving service according to his ability, and who… — Chanakya
Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given… — Walter J. Phillips
Of the time that is allotted to man here on the earth there is none to lose or waste. After suitable rest and relaxation there… — Brigham Young
I've been essentially not only deconstructing and reconstructing the material to make it suitable for the performance, but I've gone back and found some older… — Todd Rundgren
What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from… — Leo Tolstoy
An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a… — Winston Churchill
A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for… — Lucian Freud
The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for… — Daniel Dennett
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort. — Epictetus
As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothing suitable to wear with them. Others adore… — Edith Head
Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind. — Muhammad Iqbal
The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a… — Donald Knuth
Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it… — Alice Miller

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