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• The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Flower, Expression, Taste

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• Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound—people such as my boring brother-in-law, a hearty type so concerned with normality and fitting in that he eliminates any possibility of uniqueness for himself and his own personality. I wonder if some day, when he is older, he will wake up and the deeper part of him will realize that he has never allowed himself to truly exist, and he will cry with regret and shame and grief.

  Douglas Coupland

  Brother, Regret, Grief

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Prayer, Men, Answers

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• We come here because we too feel a responsibility for the human community. To preserve and develop a human quality of life is the common responsibility of us all. It is not fitting that those concerned with the various aspects of the human be alienated from each other. Both you and ourselves represent forces too profound and aim at objectives too significant for either of us to succeed completely without the assistance of the other. The urgency of our work impels us to get on with our common task lest a new period of disaster erupt over the Earth.

  Thomas Berry

  Responsibility, Profound, Community

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• I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting.

  T. E. Brown

  Writing, Limits, My Own

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• I've lost 12 inches in three weeks. Every time I go for the costume fitting each week, it's smaller and smaller. I'm feeling great. I'm putting in the work. I'm getting a lot of sleep. Everything is on the backburner right now. 'Dancing' is my priority.

  Ricki Lake

  Sleep, Dancing, Priorities

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• ... if we take the universe of 'fitting,' countless coats 'fit' backs, and countless boots 'fit' feet, on which they are not practically fitted; countless stones 'fit' gaps in walls into which no one seeks to fit them actually. In the same way countless opinions 'fit' realities, and countless truths are valid, tho no thinker ever thinks them.

  William James

  Wall, Truth, Reality

  William James (2015). “The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding”, p.77, 谷月社

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• I am told that tens of thousands of prayer meetings are being held on this day; for that I am deeply grateful. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It would be fitting and good, I think, if on each inaugural day in future years it should be declared a day of prayer.

  Ronald Reagan

  Prayer, Believe, Grateful

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• We see women who go out and want to look like Jennifer Aniston, and they're wearing an ill-fitting red dress and ugly gold shoes, and they've got flat hair and they can't walk.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Hair, Shoes, Gold

  "Kelly Cutrone: Fashion Week's Behind the Scenes Superstar" by Sheila Marikar, abcnews.go.com. February 15, 2010.

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• I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well.

  Warwick Davis

  Toilets, Etc, Machines

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• If you're remarkable, then it's likely that some people won't like you. That's part of the definition of remarkable. Nobody gets unanimous praise - ever. The best the timid can hope for is to be unnoticed. Criticism comes to those who stand out.
  Playing it safe. Following the rules. They seem like the best ways to avoid failure. Alas, that pattern is awfully dangerous. The current marketing “rules” will ultimately lead to failure. In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is failing. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

  Seth Godin

  People, Marketing, Criticism

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• I like how my body feels when I'm in shape; I love how it feels after I work out each day. Fitting in the clothes I like to wear comfortably and living a healthy lifestyle is important to me.

  Colbie Caillat

  Clothes, Work Out, Healthy

  "Up Close with Colbie Caillat". Interview with Jené Luciani, www.shape.com.

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• I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.

  Alan Davies

  Ideas, Space, Humanity

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• We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture themselves. Houses don't retrofit themselves and put in their own new boilers and furnaces and better-fitting windows and doors. Advanced biofuel crops don't plant themselves. Community gardens don't tend themselves. Farmers' markets don't run themselves. Every single thing that is good for the environment is actually a job, a contract, or an entrepreneurial opportunity.

  Van Jones

  Running, Jobs, Business

  Van Jones (2013). “Rebuild the Dream”, p.187, Nation Books

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• My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.

  Mamie Gummer

  Virginia, Two, Directors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's especially fitting that they call a cruise ship 'she,' for she is pregnant with a thousand adult embryos who long to stay forever warm and sheltered in this great white womb.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Travel, White, Long

  Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncing around and spinning. There was a never-ending supply of places to go, people to see, things to do, and fitting it all in became kind of an art.

  Tom Freston

  Art, People, Atoms

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• It is not fitting that the evil produced by men should be imputed to things; let those bear the blame who make an ill use of things in themselves good.

  Isocrates

  Men, Evil, Use

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• And the university's reputation will only continue to grow as stories like Elaine's are spread. Delaware State University's motto 'a past to honor, a future to insure,' couldn't be any more fitting for this transitional period you are going through.

  Michael N. Castle

  Past, Honor, Stories

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• If there is continuity in the universe, it is fitting that there should be intelligent beings without bodies which are called angels.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Angel, Intelligent, Body

  Fulton J. Sheen (2009). “God and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy: A Critical Study in the Light of the Philosophy of Saint Thomas”, p.86, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• When I was older and I first started working, I was obsessed with buying my first Chanel jacket. I saved up my hard-earned money, went to Barneys, and bought a little black Chanel jacket. It saw many, many job interviews and many, many events. I'm not fitting into it lately, but I still have it.

  Nina Garcia

  Jobs, Black, Littles

  "Nina Garcia So Over ‘Angry Shoes,’ Says ‘Polished Girl Is Back’", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2010.

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• It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Home, Charity, Needs

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.62

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• God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.297

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• It's a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon "launder" became a dirty word.

  William Zinsser

  Sarcastic, Dirty, Sarcasm

  "On Writing Well". Book by William Zinsser (Chapter 7: Usage, p. 47), 1976.

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• This was Barrington Erle, a politician of long standing, who was still looked upon by many as a young man, because he had always been known as a young man, and because he had never done anything to compromise his position in that respect. He had not married, or settled himself down in a house of his own, or become subject to the gout, or given up being careful about the fitting of his clothes.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Clothes, Long

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “The Prime Minister: Trollope's Works”, p.89, 谷月社

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