Best 764 quotes in «fit quotes» category

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.

Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998.

Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress.

New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time

Nobody’s as serious about health and fitness as me, and staying fit is my top priority.

No matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable.

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.

No part of the aim of normal science is to call forth new sorts of phenomena; indeed those that will not fit the box are often not seen at all. Nor do scientists normally aim to invent new theories, and they are often intolerant of those invented by others.

My summary of all our experiences was that it showed that heaven and hell are one place, and we all go there. To those who are prepared, it is heaven; to those who are not fit and ready, it is hell.

My vintage Levi's are my favorite on the show, 'cause they really fit.

Not every relationship can be altered to fit.

Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.

Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child

No woman can call herself free who cannot choose the time to be a mother or not as she sees fit.

Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store.

Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

Of course, I will keep myself fit, keep my boots clean and you never know.

Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore.

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.

Often, in a given project team or network, one sees leadership roles shifting among various members at various times. Attempts to fit these into traditional views of "leader" and "follower" don't quite work. It's more like Twitter: the "leader" has "followers" - but the "followers" are empowered to alter the relationship unilaterally, and the "leader" must continually earn the consent of the "followers.

Oh God, Oh God we’re all gonna die doesn’t really fit the definition of banter, now does it?

Oh noes, kitteh haz major angriez!” I said. I turned around to share a laugh with my companions and found them glaring at me. “What?” I asked. Leif shook a finger and said in a low, menacing tone, “If you tell me I have to talk like an illiterate halfwit to fit into this society, I will punch you.” “And I’ll pull out your goatee,” Gunnar added. “Lolcat iz new happeh wai 2 talk,” I explained to them. “U doan haz 2 be kitteh 2 speek it.

Omens are everywhere in this world you just have to find the one that fits.

Once given, a gift is yours to use, store or dispose of as you see fit.

Once we become conscious of a feeling and attempt to make a corresponding form, we are engaged in an activity which, far from being sincere, is prepared (as any artist if he is sincere will tell you) to moderate feelings to fit the form. The artist's feeling for form is stronger than a formless feeling.

One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or in the movies, which is tidier and better fits such structures.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

One size NEVER fits all. One size fits one. Period

No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.

One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Only he is fit to preach who cannot avoid preaching, who feels that woe is upon him unless he preach the gospel

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.

Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.

Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

Parenting cannot just be one size fits all.

Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.

People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.

People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time of difficulty.

People presume just because you're a bigger bloke that you wouldn't be physically fit or up for the fight, but that couldn't be further from the truth.

Personally, I'm very classic. If I'm going to wear a suit, it's going to be classic, black, and fit very well. There's nothing like it.

Physical fitness is in. I recently had a physical fit myself.

Poetry and I fit together.  I can't imagine being without it... It is food and drink, it is all seasons,  it is the stuff of all existence.

Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as well as a better way forward, it is Rwanda.