Fit Quotes - Page 18

• Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury.

  Euripides

  Children, Tantrums, Emotion

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides III: Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis, Electra, The Phoenician women, The Bacchae”

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• I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Hate, Care, Difficulty

  Walter Savage Landor (1969). “The Complete Works of Walter Savage Landor”

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• A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.

  John Keats

  Taken, Men, Should Have

  Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 22 November 1817, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 188

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• Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Writing, Views, Comedian

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 11, 2008.

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• People say I'm around because I have a lot of heart, but I know all the heart in the world couldn't have helped me if I wasn't physically fit.

  Jimmy Connors

  Heart, People, Tennis

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• You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as we would like them to. The reason for this is not only the loving wisdom of God, but also the fact that our acts have to fit into a great complex pattern that we cannot possibly understand. I have learned over the years that Providence is always a whole lot wiser than any of us, and that there are always not only good reasons, but the very best reasons for the delays and blocks that often seem to us so frustrating and absurd.

  Thomas Merton

  Block, Years, Ideas

  Thomas Merton (2011). “The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters”, p.862, Macmillan

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• You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw where I would fit in. That's called art. And then something happened to pop music, which is that it became art under the hand of the Beatles, the Stones, and Bob Dylan and some other people.

  David Chase

  Art, Hands, People

  "David Chase's teenage dreams" by Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 20, 2012.

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• I've been into golf, trying to get into the gym to stay somewhat fit. I've got two boys now, they're active kids.

  Pete Sampras

  Kids, Golf, Boys

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside out. Often character actors are not in a position to do that, but I do it. I don't change any cue and I never change anybody else's lines, but I make my own words fit my mouth.

  James Cromwell

  Character, Actors, Mouths

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• Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.

  Jonathan Raban

  Travel, Book, Journey

  Jonathan Raban (1987). “For love & money: writing, reading, travelling, 1969-1987”

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• If a theology student in lowa should get up at a PTA luncheon in Sioux City and attack the President's military policy, my guess is that you would probably find it reported somewhere the next morning in the New York Times. But when 300 Congressmen endorse the President's policy, the next morning it is apparently not considered news fit to print.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Morning, New York, Military

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• They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was made to fit the dictates of their intuition. In short, they broke all the laws of rigor and of mathematical decorum. The veritable orgy which followed the introduction of the infinitesimals... was but a natural reaction. Intuition had too long been held imprisoned by the severe rigor of the Greeks. Now it broke loose, and there were no Euclids to keep its romantic flight in check.

  Tobias Dantzig

  Law, History, Long

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• Knowing what you know, be serene also, like a mountain; and do not be distressed by misfortune. Knowledge without serenity is an unlit candle; together they are honey-comb; honey without wax is a noble thing; wax without honey is only fit for burning.

  Sanai

  Knowledge, Knowing, Serenity

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• Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every obstacle and opposition, and fits them into their predestined place, making them a part of herself, so too the rational person is able to finesse every obstacle into an opportunity, and to use it for whatever purpose it may suit.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Nature, Opportunity, May

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• If we let go of our likes and dislikes, we will become fit vessels to receive the God's ever flowing grace.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Likes And Dislikes

  Twitter post from Feb 04, 2014

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• Tape with LTFS has several advantages over the other external storage devices it would typically be compared to. First, tape has been designed from Day 1 to be an offline device and to sit on a shelf. An LTFS-formatted LTO-6 tape can store 2.5 TB of uncompressed data and almost 6 TB with compression. That means many data centers could fit their entire data set into a small FedEx box. With LTFS the sending and receiving data centers no longer need to be running the same application to access the data on the tape.

  George Arthur Crump

  Running, Mean, Data

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• If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Light, Paper

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues.

  Dolly Parton

  Sadness, Pms, Tears

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• I always thought I was so fit.

  Rod Stewart

  "GMA:Rod Stewart Interview". abcnews.go.com.

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• Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Gun, Weapons, Contradiction

  Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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• There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.

  Edward Tufte

  Long, Topics, Slides

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• There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.

  Algernon Sidney

  Army, Men, Office

  Algernon Sidney (1751). “Discourses Concerning Gouernment. By Algernon Sidney, Esq; to which are Added, Memories of His Life, and an Apology for Himself ..”, p.61

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• I play tennis five hours a week, from Monday to Friday, for one hour every day. I like to be fit. If I can't exercise, I feel bad - I need to sweat and run to feel like I'm in good shape.

  Bjorn Borg

  Friday, Running, Monday

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• I have the humor of a 9-year-old boy, and sometimes I've had laughing fits on-air.

  Megyn Kelly

  Boys, Air, Years

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• I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Thinking, Ideas, Culture

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