Best 764 quotes in «fit quotes» category

Scripture starts with the particular and then universalizes it. You are called to love your concrete individual neighbor and then to realize that every individual is your neighbor. The point is not to destroy concrete neighborhood in a fit of universalism but to expand the local neighborhood and embrace the universal neighborhood.

Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.

Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.

She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother.

The ability to fight isnt a one-size fits all; everybody is different.

Simplification seems to be the removal of objects for the goal of making a graphic as clean and uncluttered as possible. Whereas, with optimization, it feels like there's more intelligence in that. It maintains the usability, but tries to distill something down to its essence. But with some data-sets you have to be careful because, as with linear, print journalism, it's easy to shave off facts that don't quite fit the flow.

Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one.

Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that's why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.

Software is a gas ! It expands to fit the container it is in !

Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.

So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

Stop trying to fit [Christ] into your life; instead, build your life around [Him].

Strange—we are always inhabiting more than one realm of existence—but they all fit in if the art is right.

Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations.

Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance.

Tailoring the facts to fit one's theory constitutes neither good science nor good journalism. Rather, it is intellectually dishonest and, when published for consumption by a mass audience, adds up to propaganda.

Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram.

Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person.

Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit.

Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands.

That a good fit between parental handling and child temperament is vital to help children adapt to the imperatives of their society is a crucial concept that can be applied to other cultures.

That wouldn't fit my right testicle

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

So I know you must have a plan and this wolf—" "Beast," Min said. "—frog, whatever, can't fit your plan." "He's not a frog," Min said. "I kissed him and he did not turn into a prince."He turned into a god. No, he didn't . "Look, I'm never going to see him again, so everybody can relax.

Some of my clothes are things that we'd play dress up with when we were little, and it's funny that now I'm wearing it like as an everyday thing. But if I say 'vintage' or 'thrifted' on the blog, there's this community of fashion bloggers and I've become sort of tight with some of them, and we like just send each other packages. If I'm thrifting and I find this great dress but it won't fit me and I won't grow into it because I'm impossibly tiny, I don't want to let it sit there. I'll buy it and send it to a friend.

Sometimes growing pains are by fits and starts.

Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it's as though the "Aussie" is refined out of them. I don't know why. It's never happened to me, because I'm really proud of it. I'm not embarrassed about where I'm from or who I am any more. I know who I am. I don't fit in everywhere, but I know where I do fit in.

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.

Staying physically active - walking or running every day - and eating healthily is the best way to stay fit.

Successful generals make plans to fit circumstances, but do not try to create circumstances to fit plans.

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

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it.

The best mobile phone had the best mathematician. They know how to fit a huge amount of data into a small amount of space. How to do things efficiently, how to do them cleverly.

The first time we put Debbie Downer on the show, I had a giggle fit that I couldn't control, and the whole cast ended up breaking so hard we could never quite recover.

The chair as ideas fits only the bottom as idea.

The Chinese had accused the Tibetans of being terrorists, which is weird. A Tibetan terrorist is like an Amish hacker. It just doesn't fit.

The fit of jeans can be worlds apart from brand to brand. If you can find the right fit, skinny jeans can be very flattering.

The food on the plane was fit for a king. "Here, King!

The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits.

The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it. They don't get filed away, they transform us.

The fit is my main focus, I want the fit to be great and that's the focal point for me.

The funny thing is just the collision of genres, taking one medium and trying to ram it into another medium, whether it fits or not.

The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.

The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all things considered, one would not normally choose to go. But, we go where the business is.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.

The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest.

The main thing with triathlon is you've got to be as fit as you can. I train all year round.