Fit Quotes

• [Pragmatism's] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life best and combines with the collectivity of experience's demands, nothing being omitted.

  

  William James
  • Truth
  • Demand
  • Pragmatism

• I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's part of why we write. We feel we don't fit in, that this world is not our world, that though we may move in it, we're not of it. You don't need to write a novel if you feel at home in the world.

  

  Andrea Barrett
  • World
  • Writing
  • Why

• Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction, and its balance sheet grew by $1.3 trillion in just thirteen weeks compared to $850 billion during its first ninety-four years, I became convinced that the Fed was flying by the seat of its pants, making it up as it went along. It was evident that its aim was to stop the hissy fit on Wall Streetm and that the thread of a Great Depression 2.0 was just a cover story for a panicked spree of money printing that exceeded any other episode in recorded human history.

  

  David Stockman
  • Balance
  • Wall
  • Flying

• Sometimes a relationship is what falls cause it's not fair that, that person has to fit inside your life or you have to fit inside that person's life.

  

  Nelly
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Fall

• I left the Midwest thinking I didn't fit in. But when I got to New York, I realized how truly Midwestern I was.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Thinking
  • Realized
  • Midwest

• These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when overeating

  

  Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • Fierce
  • Feathers
  • Grunt

• Call it stubborn, call it ignorant, call it what you want, but I don't think I have to join a particular faith or culture or creed or religion just to fit in, since I was part of the clique since it's inception.

  

  Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
  • Thinking
  • Culture
  • Ignorant

• We're all a piece of the puzzle. It's a weird puzzle and it looks odd, but we all fit in it.

  

  Da'Vine Joy Randolph
  • Weird
  • Looks
  • Pieces

• As a coach, you're never satisfied. But the guys are working hard. We've had more competitive at-bats lately, more competitive games. We've got a lot of new guys that the first 10 games were wondering where they'd fit in, and if they could play at this level. They're starting to feel more comfortable with themselves. We'll get better.

  

  Vance Law
  • Games
  • Guys
  • Starting

• Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fashion
  • Politics
  • Birth

• Conservatives have been mad at the Supreme Court since it decided to desegregate the schools in 1954 and seen fit to blame the federal bench for everything that has happened since then that they don't like.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • School
  • Mad
  • Blame

• Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Beautiful
  • Words
  • Summer

• Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Thanks
  • Kings
  • Remembrance

• I've always hated the feeling of trying to be cool or trying to fit in.

  

  Lauv
  • Cool
  • Fit
  • Hated

• [Harold Pinter] is a British playwright and is one of my favorite writers. Harold was very obsessed with when memory becomes mythology, that at some point you change your memory to fit who you believe you are.

  

  Baron Vaughn
  • Believe
  • Memories
  • Favorite

• In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price. You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.

  

  Ellis Peters
  • Done
  • Simple
  • Regret

• Creating music to fit the marketplace, so that music can be heard? If ever I thought that I even came close to catering to the marketplace, or designing my productions and my music to cater to what is currently fashionable, I would sell shoes for a living. For me, the marketplace can rot in hell. I will do music for the love of music and for the love of people who listen to music, and absolutely nothing else will drive me.

  

  Daniel Lanois
  • People
  • Design
  • Hell

• You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Jobs
  • Police

• As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Baseball
  • Dedicated
  • Parking

• I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Sound
  • Disease

• Some sounds are coming from the keyboard and they are very important in the writing process, but on the other hand, we have melody and we have the song before, so if the keyboard sound fits very well, it takes its artistic direction. We play the machines and the machines play us.

  

  Nicolas Godin Air
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Song

• Life experience makes the best music. That's the thing that nobody else can offer. Nobody else can offer my life. I have a life that is fit for movies, music, and so forth. Nobody else can give that.

  

  T.I.
  • Life
  • Music
  • Experience

• In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.

  

  William Randolph Hearst
  • Money
  • Christmas
  • Size

• There are certain relationships that just don't fit into good or bad; they transcend it.

  

  Alison Rosen
  • Relationships
  • Fit
  • Transcend

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