Not Fitting Quotes

• It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

  Francis of Assisi

  God, Faith, Inspiration

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• I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.

  Alexander McQueen

  Inspirational, Long, People

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• People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Ideas, People, Standing Out

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.

  Morgan Brittany

  Hollywood, Crowds, Odd

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• In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.

  Jack Dee

  Way, Fitting, Assets

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• I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.

  Wil Wheaton

  Childhood, Way, Different

  "Wil Wheaton" by Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2002.

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• In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

  Seth Godin

  Marketing, Busy, Invisible

  Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable--Includes new bonus chapter”, p.50, Penguin

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• I notice if I'm too fat or if I'm too ugly or there's skin hanging or whatever. When my clothes start not fitting, I get really self-conscious about what I eat.

  Marina Abramovic

  Self, Clothes, Skins

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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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• 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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• But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.

  Paul the Apostle

  Talking, Giving, Saint

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• To be united to God in unity of person was not fitting to human flesh, according to its natural endowments, since it was above his dignity; nevertheless, it was fitting that God, by reason of his infinite goodness, should unite it to himself for human salvation.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Unity, Flesh, Dignity

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 4 (Part III, First Section)”, p.2020, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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• You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.

  Saadi

  Pain, Suffering Of Others, Fitting

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• Right now I'm not fitting into the coach's plans and so I just want to make sure I can do the best I can and improve myself and make sure I get picked.

  Danny Cipriani

  Want, Rugby, Fitting

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• They praise these tiny indie bands, but if a band finally gets mainstream success, the same people who praised them attack them for 'selling out.' People often play at being nonconformists to mask their own feelings of not fitting in.

  Kyle Baker

  Play, People, Interesting

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• I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

  Abdul Qadeer Khan

  Forgiveness, Hatred, Fitting

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• I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Dream, Lonely, Thinking

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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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• My whole life, when I was growing up, not one race has ever accepted me, ... So I never felt connected or attached to any race specifically. I had a very American upbringing, I feel American, and I don't speak Spanish. So, to say that I'm a Latin actress, OK, but it's not fitting; it would be insincere.

  Jessica Alba

  Growing Up, Latin, Race

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• Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was so little of it. I replied that it was even less fitting for a man to possess ignorance because there was so much of it.

  Christine de Pizan

  Ignorance, Men, Desire

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• And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion.

  Amy Irving

  Fitness, Fashion, Baby

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• I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.

  Van Morrison

  Records, Fitting, Found

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com.

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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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• There was a lot of drama in school because, well, people have problems at home and they take it out on their friends in school. Trying to impress people, they became bullies. I hated it because I know what it's like to be picked on, and I never liked not fitting in, especially moving around so much as a kid because I was an Army brat. My dad was in the Army.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Dad, Drama, Moving

  Interview with Milla Jovovich, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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