Fit Quotes - Page 32

• the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.

  Oswald Mosley

  Plato, Hero, Men

  "Rules of the Game/Beyond the Pale". Book by Nicholas Mosley, 1982.

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• I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I was over-confident, arrogant, a typical youngest child. I went through periods of withdrawing into myself and school psychologists tried to figure me out, work out why I didn't fit in. I found that irritating, too.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Sarcastic, Teacher, Children

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• We have tried to fit man into abstraction, but he does not fit.

  Mark Tobey

  Men, Doe, Abstraction

  Bahai lecture, New York; as quoted in "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America", W.C. Seitz, 1983, p. 104, October 30, 1951.

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• Our advertising partnership with Allegiant Air is a natural fit for us. Branding encompasses everything from good customer service to strategic advertising positioning and targeting. This in-air branding exercise will allow us to target a specific player demographic, while continuing to expand the presence of our brand throughout the continental United States.

  Calvin Ayre

  Exercise, Player, Air

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• Lustful Desire (although 'twere rather fit To some brute creature to attribute it) Shall be presented in the second place, Because it shrouds a vile deformed face Beneath love's vizard, and assumes that name, Hiding its own fault with the other's blame.

  George Wither

  Names, Lust, Desire

  George Wither (1839). “Poems ...”, p.21

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• According to the oral tradition of Witches, we were once the priests and priestesses of a peasant Pagan religion. Members of this secret sect met at night beneath the full moon, for these were the "misfits" and "outcasts" who did not fit into mainstream society. Little has changed over the centuries and the Witchcraft community still embraces individuals frequently rejected in mainstream society. These include gays, lesbians, transgendered individuals, and other people with the courage to live their lives authentically in accord with who they are inside their hearts, minds, and spirits.

  Raven Grimassi

  Heart, Gay, Moon

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• All in all it's a pretty great day for major league sports. At long last they've decided that gay people are fit to be included in their elite club-one that's already allowed in adulterers, wife-swappers, gamblers, cheaters, rapists, racists and slaughterers of man. Those who've abused spouses, drugs, alcohol, family members and animals. Congratulations, gay athletes. Are you sure you want to hang out with these people?

  Jon Stewart

  Change, Sports, Congratulations

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• The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den only fit for wild beasts.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Palaces, Beast

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.207, Library of Alexandria

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• There may or may not be a Supreme Ruler of the universe-but we are certain that man exists, and we believe that freedom is the condition of progress; that it is the sunshine of the mental and moral world, and that without it man will go back to the den of savagery, and wll become the fit associate of wild and ferocious beasts.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Sunshine, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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• [Pragmatism's] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life best and combines with the collectivity of experience's demands, nothing being omitted.

  William James

  Truth, Demand, Tests

  William James (1981). “Pragmatism”, p.38, Hackett Publishing

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• When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific images—things that have come into my head, totally abstracted from any narrative, that I've fixated on. After that, I construct a world, or an area, into which that general setting, that atmosphere, and the specific images I've focused on can fit.

  China Mieville

  Couple, Book, Writing

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• To the Chasmites, truth is determined by how well it fits their expectations, and doesn't that sound familiar? They have consistently refused to have a god contest, and I fear they will have to encounter the godlet rather forcibly before they believe there is anything there at all.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Believe, Expectations, Sound

  "The Visitor". Book by Sheri S. Tepper, 2002.

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• Sexual integrity means honestly recognizing our own impulses and desires and honoring them, whether or not we choose to act on them. If we value integrity, we must also value diversity in sexual expression and orientation, recognizing that there is no one truth, or one way, that fits everyone.Sexuality is sacred because through it we make a connection with another self - but it is misused and perverted when it becomes an arena of power-over, a means of treating another - or oneself - as an object.

  Starhawk

  Integrity, Mean, Self

  Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.69, Beacon Press

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• History is replete with examples of what happens when any group of authorities do not have to answer to empirical evidence but are free to define truth as they see fit. None of the examples has a happy ending. Why should it be otherwise with therapy?

  Robert Todd Carroll

  Groups, Example, Answers

  "Repressed memory therapy (trauma-search therapy)". "The Skeptic's Dictionary" by Robert Todd Carroll, www.skepdic.com.

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• As long as I am running this Government I will run the Government as I see fit... as I believe in, based on my philosophy.

  Brian Cowen

  Running, Philosophy, Believe

  "He's Taken the Blows and Now Brian's Doing It... His Way" by Lise Hand, www.independent.ie. January 28, 2009.

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• The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.

  Eric Rucker Eddison

  Past, Years, Memorial

  "A Fish Dinner in Memison". Book by Eric Rucker Eddison, 1941.

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• Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words and thoughts into a language that was formed without and before him and which is impervious to his power. Entering the game, as it were, whether of belonging to a nation or of using a language, a man enters arrangements which it does not fall to him to determine, but only to learn and respect the rules.

  Alain Finkielkraut

  Fall, Men, Games

  "The Undoing of Thought". Book by Alain Finkielkraut, 1988.

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• There is an emerging scientific consensus that global warming is making hurricanes more intense and more destructive. It turns out that Katrina fits into a pattern that scientists and greens have been trying to warn us about for a long time.

  Johann Hari

  Long, Trying, Patterns

  "Hurricane Katrina - an environmental 9/11?". JohannHari.com, September 3, 2005.

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• Great fit and synergism for both companies and excellent outcome for employees, customers and shareholders.

  Philippe Kahn

  Outcomes, Excellent, Employee

  "Borland Bought by Micro Focus for $75M" by Jennifer Pittman, www.santacruzsentinel.com. May 06, 2009.

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• In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Eye, Men, Land

  Caitlín R. Kiernan's blog entry (greygirlbeast.livejournal.com), December 12, 2010.

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• I have ever had the single aim of justice in view. No judge who is influenced by any other consideration is fit for the bench. 'Do equal and exact justice,' is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, 'Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape.

  Isaac Parker

  Men, Innocent Man, Views

  "He Hanged Them High: An Authentic Account of the Fanatical Judge Who Hanged Eighty-Eight Men". Book by Homer Croy, p. 218, 1952.

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• Whoever lives as he sees fit will not die as he sees fit.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Dies

  "Me and Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-I Tabrizi". Book by Shams Tabrizi, translated by William C. Chittick, 2004.

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• Throughout my life, cigars have played different roles for me. They fit easily and well in the various stages and experiences Ive had -- like a companion, almost. If youve smoked a long time, as I have, they become part of you.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Long, Different, Roles

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• A man's usefulness depends on his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. 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.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Iron, Joy

  Theodore Roosevelt (1955). “Theodore Roosevelt's America: Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist”

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• If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart. But you can be fun and fit and social and be really smart. And the smarter you are, the more capable you'll be to handle whatever challenges come up in life.

  Danica McKellar

  Beautiful, Fun, Smart

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