Fitting Quotes - Page 10

• Let us pass to the despotic part of the soul, spirit. We must not eliminate it utterly from the youth nor yet allow  him to use it all the time. Let us train boys from earliest childhood to be patient when they suffer wrongs themselves, but, if they see another being wronged, to sally forth courageously and aid the sufferer in fitting measure.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Boys, Childhood, Soul

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• If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. But underneath the words, at the center, like the center of the Square, it all came out even. Everything could change, yet nothing would be lost. If you saw the numbers you could see that, the balance, the pattern. You saw the foundations of the world. And they were solid.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Numbers, Squares

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• ...The simple little words came easily, fitting themselves to the tune that had come out of the harpsichord. It didn't seem to her that she made them up at all. It seemed to her that they flew in from the rose-garden, through the open window, like a lot of butterflies, poised themselves on the point of her pen, and fell off it on to the paper.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Butterfly, Garden, Simple

  Elizabeth Goudge (2001). “The Little White Horse”, p.57, Penguin

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• Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Together, Twisted, Said

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2009). “The Dispossessed”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• I suppose you could call me...Soot," said the thing. "Yes...Soot. I have breathed it, lived in it, and eaten it for so long that it is a fitting name." "Eaten it?" asked Suzy. "Why eat soot?" "Boredom," said Soot.

  Garth Nix

  Names, Long, Boredom

  Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #2: Grim Tuesday”, p.170, Scholastic Inc.

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• My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.

  Nicole Richie

  Jobs, Creating, Sketching

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• The work of the inventor consists of conceptualizing, combining, and ordering what is possible according to the laws of nature. This inner working out which precedes the external has a twofold characteristic: the participation of the subconscious in the inventing subject; and that encounter with an external power which demands and obtains complete subjugation, so that the way to the solution is experienced as the fitting of one's own imagination to this power.

  Friedrich Dessauer

  Science, Law, Work Out

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• America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft that's 5000 millimeters off fitting properly, and two bad ball-bearings, and still runs. We're in that kind of situation. We can have substantial parts of the population committing suicide, and still run and look fairly good.

  Thomas McGuane

  Suicide, Running, Two

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• The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.

  Cody Lundin

  Mainstream Society, Self, Majority

  Cody Lundin (2007). “When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need to Survive When Disaster Strikes”, p.57, Gibbs Smith

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• Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Ego, Garments

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• For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Kings, Teaching, Hard Work

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• For thirty years most interface design, and most comptuer design, has been headed down the path of the "dramatic" machine. Its highest idea is to make a computer so exciting, so wonderful, so interesting, that we never want to be without it. A less-traveled path I call the "invisible"; its highest idea is to make a computer so imbedded, so fitting, so natural, that we use it without even thinking about it.

  Mark Weiser

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• ... we grapple with this 'law of sin' (Rom. 8:2) and expel it from our body, establishing in its place the surveillance of the intellect. Through this surveillance we prescribe what is fitting for every faculty of the soul and every member of the body. For the senses we prescribe what they should take into account and to what extent they should do so, and this exercise of the spiritual law is called self-control.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Spiritual, Exercise

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• Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Adversity, Men

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.1986, Delphi Classics

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• Its been nearly 1.5 years since the last PLUS 8 record, but it seemed fitting that this record in particular, made by a skinny white kid from Canada, became part of the labels collection and history.

  Richie Hawtin

  Kids, Years, White

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• Senator Kennedy inspired so many with his decades of service, so I can't think of a more fitting tribute then working to educate and motivate future generations of citizens and public servants alike.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Generations, Citizens

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• I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be.

  Logan Henderson

  Class, Trouble, Clown

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• I believe life's too short for compromises and bad fitting jeans

  Lykke Li

  Believe, Jeans, Compromise

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• Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Land, America, Perfection

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1978). “The Image”

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• A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.

  James Ellis

  Giving, Mind, Literature

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• In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.

  Jack Dee

  Way, Assets, Resources

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• The title 'Righteousness' is given to God because He assigns what is appropriate to all things; he distributes their due proportion, beauty, rank, arrangement, their proper and fitting place and order.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Order, Titles

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• It's quite fitting that Slash is getting a star on the very street Axl Rose will one day be sleeping on.

  Charlie Sheen

  Stars, Sleep, Rose

  "Charlie Sheen Honors Slash, Slams Axl Rose at Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony" by Arati Patel, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 11, 2012.

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• From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed. . . . Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Eagles, Wings, Birth

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1833). “The Last Man”, p.10

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• People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.

  Liz Phair

  Cds, Games, Space

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