Fitting Quotes - Page 6

• God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Purity, Should, Virgins

  "Mary for Earth and Heaven" by William McLaughlin, p. 115-116, 2002.

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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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• Sculpture is a series of 3-dimensional shapes which, while fitting together, cause the perception of lines to the viewer, even where they do not exist.

  Edward J. Fraughton

  Perception, Together, Sculpture

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• Let us pass to the despotic part of the soul, spirit. We must not eliminate it utterly from the youth nor yet allow  him to use it all the time. Let us train boys from earliest childhood to be patient when they suffer wrongs themselves, but, if they see another being wronged, to sally forth courageously and aid the sufferer in fitting measure.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Boys, Childhood, Soul

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• Any man who can look handsome in a dirty baseball suit is an Adonis. There is something about the baggy pants, and the Micawber-shaped collar, and the skull-fitting cap, and the foot or so of tan, or blue, or pink undershirt sleeve sticking out at the arms, that just naturally kills a man's best points.

  Edna Ferber

  Baseball, Dirty, Men

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• There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis , because it guarantees complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost a canonical status in Protestant theology. But now, we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.

  Karl Barth

  Ideas, Prejudice, Guarantees

  Karl Barth (2004). “Church Dogmatics: The doctrine of the word of God (2 pts.)”, p.469, A&C Black

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• It's really tough to make a name for yourself without compromising and without fitting yourself into a real specific mold. When I made the choice that I would be involved in every aspect of music and not necessarily make music for radio or MTV, I was saying, 'OK, this is me. You decide who it is.'

  Josh Groban

  Real, Mtv, Names

  Inside Connection magazine, February 2004.

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• I have always disliked being a man. The whole idea of manhood in America is pitiful, in my opinion. This version of masculinity is a little like having to wear an ill-fitting coat for one's entire life (by contrast, I imagine femininity to be an oppressive sense of nakedness).

  Paul Theroux

  Men, America, Ideas

  Paul Theroux (1986). “Sunrise with Seamonsters”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• I have learned from nature that all is equal... all is equal and in balance. I see everything as fitting together.

  Joseph Raffael

  Balance, Together, I Have Learned

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• I'm in this process of trying to create a free space. Like an open field, where figure and ground are in very ambivalent, complex relationships. On top of that, I also wanted to see if I could try to blurt something out, or make something completely immediate, that ends up fitting perfectly.

  Amy Sillman

  Trying

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• ... we grapple with this 'law of sin' (Rom. 8:2) and expel it from our body, establishing in its place the surveillance of the intellect. Through this surveillance we prescribe what is fitting for every faculty of the soul and every member of the body. For the senses we prescribe what they should take into account and to what extent they should do so, and this exercise of the spiritual law is called self-control.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Spiritual, Exercise

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• The title 'Righteousness' is given to God because He assigns what is appropriate to all things; he distributes their due proportion, beauty, rank, arrangement, their proper and fitting place and order.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Order, Titles

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• We enjoyed the fact that we were called to the folk festivals and we got to know Joan Baez, Dylan. We were singing strictly gospel, but then after we started hearing songs that they would sing, we saw that those songs were very fitting for us because they were singing the truth, and truth is gospel.

  Mavis Staples

  Song, Singing, Festivals

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• The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch.

  Julius Streicher

  Roots, Devil, Branches

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• Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

  Georges Rouault

  Mean, Expression, Sincere

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• We should not bear it with bad grace if the answer to our prayer is long delayed. Rather, let us, because of this, show great patience and resignation. For He delays for this reason: that we may offer Him a fitting occasion of honoring us through His divine providence.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Long, Catholic

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• Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.

  St. Jerome

  Catholic, Doubt, Favors

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• We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

  T. S. Eliot

  Judging, Tests, Novelty

  T. S. Eliot (1998). “The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• For we did not and do not wish the Temple to be placed in any servitude except that which is fitting.

  Jacques de Molay

  Wish, Temples, Servitude

  "The Last Templar: The Tragedy of Jacques de Molay". Book by Alain Demurger, 2009.

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• Somehow it just don't seem fittin' for a bridegroom to spend his weddin' night in a tree.

  Jane Powell

  Night, Men, Tree

  "Fictional character: Milly". "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers", www.imdb.com. July 15, 1954.

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• A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.

  James Ellis

  Giving, Mind, Literature

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• America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft that's 5000 millimeters off fitting properly, and two bad ball-bearings, and still runs. We're in that kind of situation. We can have substantial parts of the population committing suicide, and still run and look fairly good.

  Thomas McGuane

  Suicide, Running, Two

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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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• 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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