Best 764 quotes in «fit quotes» category

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

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 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 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 size NEVER fits all. One size fits one. Period

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

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 are not afraid to die.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.

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.

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.

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 who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.