Fit Quotes

• Humanity is fickle. They may dress for a morning coronation and never feel the need to change clothes for an execution in the afternoon. So Triumphal Sundays and Good Fridays always fit comfortably into the same April week.

  

  Calvin Miller
  • Morning
  • Humanity
  • Week

• That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Persistence
  • Diligence

• I was happy to find out that when on tour, Dolly Parton doesn't use hotels but stays on her bus every night, to the point of having her buses shipped from Austria to Australia so she can tour the way she sees fit. I used one of her buses once - an honor.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Night
  • Honor
  • Australia

• The things that happen are an earthquake, another bomb in Iraq, some big jolt on Wall Street in oil prices, and then you have some new study on drought patterns from climate change. Or another little incremental improvement in photovoltaics. Where do those fit in to the daily stream? They don't.

  

  Andrew Revkin
  • Study
  • Wall
  • Improvement

• Any time you get a chance to play a great role, I consider all the qualities I may or may not have attributed to that character and how I would fit into the story.

  

  Vincent Piazza
  • Character
  • Quality
  • Chance

• Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won't dislike you.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Life
  • Choose
  • Short

• Fear is a state of nervousness only fit for children

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Children
  • States
  • Nervousness

• I'm not proposing that you let the crowd dictate, or that you work hard to fit in. Far from it. I'm proposing that you know the impact your choices are having and act accordingly.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Choices
  • Marketing
  • Impact

• Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Kids
  • Kind
  • Sports

• I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A lot has happened to me since I was eighteen.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • School

• I quickly found that the American church is a difficult place to fit in if you want to live out New Testament Christianity. The goals of American Christianity are often a nice marriage, children who don't swear, and good church attendance. Taking the words of Christ literally, and seriously, is rarely considered. That's for the 'radicals' who are 'unbalanced' and who go 'overboard.' Most of us want a balanced life we can control, that is safe, and that does not involve suffering.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Children
  • Nice
  • Church

• In the past I've always been the type of person to try and fit a square peg in a round hole. I can be very tenacious like that. But since I've had my daughter, I've found that I like the way life unfolds when I give the universe some space to guide me. It took me until my forties to realize that.

  

  Natasha Gregson Wagner
  • Trying
  • Past
  • Giving

• There are things that I won't joke about, but it's not because I don't think they're funny or they can't be made funny. It's just that they don't fit my particular skill set.

  

  Brad Williams
  • Funny
  • Fit
  • Joke

• I've learned that you don't need a lot in life. If it can't fit into a suitcase, you don't really need it.

  

  Joyce DiDonato
  • Life
  • Need
  • Suitcase

• Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Problem
  • Care
  • Economy

• Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in.

  

  William P. Young
  • Reality
  • Reason
  • Logic

• If you can figure out where you fit into any particular story, you'll be okay. When you're not quite sure where you fit in, you try to be too many parts of the story. You gild the lily. I see it all the time.

  

  John C. McGinley
  • Story
  • Fit
  • Figure Out

• Under my definition, a scientific theory is a proposed explanation which focuses or points to physical, observable data and logical inferences. There are many things throughout the history of science which we now think to be incorrect which nonetheless would fit that which would fit that definition. Yes, astrology is in fact one.

  

  Michael Behe
  • Facts
  • Explanation
  • Definitions

• The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Space
  • Higher

• I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Player
  • Preparation
  • Complicated

• Full of criss-crossed fits, you lie all the time. Your tongue should be embarrassed, you're a threat to mankind.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Time
  • Evil
  • Lying

• Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.

  

  William Golding
  • Language
  • Fit
  • Jackets

• Whole libraries can be filled with the papers written about cancer and its causes, but the contents of these papers fit on one little library visiting card.

  

  August Bier
  • Cancer
  • Library
  • Causes

• I feel like we want women to be simpler, less complex, so we project a lot of versions of simplicity onto them to fit that.

  

  Sarah Polley
  • Simplicity
  • Fit

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