Fitting Quotes - Page 2

• Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?

  Sarah Ruhl

  Stars, Lying, Sadness

  Sarah Ruhl (2006). “The Clean House and Other Plays”

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• To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become who you are. We are meant to become more eccentric, more peculiar, more odd. We are not meant just to fit in. We are here to be different. We are here to be the individual.

  James Hollis

  Being Yourself, Mean, Differences

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• I live my life as I deem appropriate and fitting; I offer no apologies, no explanations.

  Aaron Burr

  Apology, Living My Life, I Live My Life

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• Men are like shoes. Some fit better than others. And sometimes you go out shopping and there's nothing you like. And then, as luck would have it, the next week you find two that are perfect, but you don't have the money to buy both."-

  Janet Evanovich

  Funny, Men, Next Week

  FaceBook post by Janet Evanovich from Feb 13, 2014

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• Women always seemed to bring the size they wished they were to the fitting room, rather than the size that would actually fit.

  Ann Brashares

  Rooms, Size, Fit

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.322, Delacorte Press

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• Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

  Dr. Seuss

  Standing Out

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• We can never put enough distance between ourselves and what we love. To think that God is, is still to think of him as present; this is a thought according to our measure, destined only to console us. It is much more fitting to think that God is not, just as we must love him purely enough that we could be indifferent to the fact that he should not be. It is for this reason that the atheist is closer to God than the believer.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Atheist, Distance, Thinking

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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 strong a feeling of jealousy is in dogs, it would probably be exhibited by infants at any earlier age than just specified if they were tried in a fitting manner

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Strong, Emotional

  Charles Darwin “Charles Darwin: An Anthology”, Transaction Publishers

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• When I was little, like Maleficent, I was told that I was different - and I felt out of place, and too loud, too full of fire, never good at sitting still, never good at fitting in. And then one day I realized something, something I hope you all realize. Different is good.

  Angelina Jolie

  Fire, Sitting Still, One Day

  Angelina Jolie's speech at the Kids' Choice Awards, time.com. March 29, 2015.

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• I feel like a turtleneck dress that's long-sleeved and covers your entire body but is tight fitting is so much sexier than boobs spilling out, you know? So I guess I'm more into being classy sexy versus apparent sexy.

  Shailene Woodley

  Sexy, Long, Dresses

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 07, 2010.

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• The white blouse can be light and floating, impeccable and austere, sumptuous and all-enveloping, tight and close-fitting. It rises up to frame the face. It sculpts the body by transforming itself into a second skin. Imputed with glamour and poetry, freedom and impetuousness, the prim white shirt turns out to have a thousand identities.

  Gianfranco Ferre

  Light, White, Skins

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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 go on following their nature.

  Rajneesh

  Desire, Goes On, Misery

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• Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Inspirational, Dresses, Language

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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 find yourself not fitting the way things are designed to be, it's a simple matter of just learning how you ought to be and working to restore the way things are supposed to be.

  Scott Lively

  Gay, Simple, Finding Yourself

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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 is one thing I despise, it is the perverse affectation of rich people who go around dressing as if they were poor, in second-hand clothes, ill-fitting gray bonnets, socks full of holes, and flowered shirts under threadbare sweaters. Not only is it ugly, it is also insulting: nothing is more despicable than a rich man's scorn for a poor man's longing.

  Muriel Barbery

  Daughter, Gratitude, Men

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• Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or for the weak and willing followers of some tyrant. Variety of opinion is necessary for objective knowledge. And a method that encourages variety is also the only method that is comparable with a humanitarian outlook.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Knowledge, Science, Tyrants

  Paul Feyerabend (1975). “Against method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge”, Not Avail

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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 by satan to a denial of that baptism which is regeneration to God, and thus to a denial of the whole faith [by denying all physical aspects of spirituality, including the incarnatian and bodily resurrection of Jesus].

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Jesus, Men, Class

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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, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March.

  William John Wills

  Travel, Two, Next

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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, on a journey, standing at a counter or sitting at your handicraft.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Mean, Journey

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• It just seemed fitting to have our own lounge with our own dance review that paid homage to where The Pussycat Dolls originated, ... So it wasn't just another nightclub. It was somewhere where people can go and see an old school show with real dancing and real performing and real singing. It's perfect for Vegas. It's got that whole cabaret, burlesque-inspired review of dancing, and the whole fishnets, and boas.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Real, School, Vegas

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• At this place, Jews have prayed throughout the generations, and it is fitting that the message of brotherhood should go out from here.

  Ehud Barak

  Brotherhood, Generations, Messages

  "Barak stresses unity, faces reality". www.cnn.com. May 18, 1999.

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• Even if the flag burning amendment does become law, the larger problem will remain of how to respectfully dispose of older, tattered flags. Well, fortunately the U.S. official Flag Code has a suggestion about this. "The flag, when it is in such a condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem of display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning." Owwwwcchh. In response, the House Republicans are calling for tattered flags to be kept alive via a feeding tube.

  Jon Stewart

  Law, House, Suggestions

  "The Daily Show". www.imdb.com. 1996.

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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 the making of Sciences: for whoever has fix'd on his Cause, before he has experimented; can hardly avoid fitting his Experiment, and his Observations, to his Own Cause, which he had before imagin'd; rather than the Cause to the Truth of the Experiment itself. Referring to experiments of the Aristotelian mode, whereby a preconceived truth would be illustrated merely to convince people of the validity of the original thought.

  Thomas Sprat

  Truth, Science, Past

  "The History of the Royal Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge".

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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 see the smallest masses selected for use in Nature, that even enormous ones are built up solely by fitting these together. Indeed, all Nature's efforts are devoted to uniting the smallest parts of our bodies in such a way that all things whatsoever, however diverse they may be, which coalesce in the structure of living things construct the parts by means of a sort of compendium.

  Marcello Malpighi

  Nature, Mean, Science

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• I do not know what might be the most fitting description.... I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff: I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Literary Genre, Speech

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