Best 764 quotes in «fit quotes» category

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.

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

P.S. If it's not a secret, will you tell me how you got my dollhouse inside our living room last Christmas? I know its too big to fit down the chimney. I measured.

Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.

Really, improv is all about creating for what's around you, in the moment, so it fits in a way that you can't see the seams. It's like a great jazz combo. I still do it.

Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?

Results from a given approach are "facts" as long as the approach fits the group or the tradition that is being addressed.

Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun.

Salsa is a phenomenal way to stay fit, have a great time with your friends and listen to great music.

Richard Cromwell was not fit to wear the mantle of his uncle.

Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in

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.

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

That wouldn't fit my right testicle

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

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.

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

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

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

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