Fitting Quotes - Page 14

• Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Normal, Description

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, Anchor

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• The wise man knows the only fitting price for his soul is a place in Paradise.

  Ibn Hazm

  Wise, Wisdom, Islamic

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• I notice if I'm too fat or if I'm too ugly or there's skin hanging or whatever. When my clothes start not fitting, I get really self-conscious about what I eat.

  Marina Abramovic

  Self, Clothes, Skins

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• The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Heaven, Grace

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• If my soul exists without my body I am convinced all my clothes will be loose-fitting

  Woody Allen

  Clothes, Soul, Body

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Mom, Mother, Baby

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.321

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• No days such honored days as these! While yet
  Fair Aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide
  For some fair thing which should forever bide
  On earth, her beauteous memory to set
  In fitting frame that no age could forget,
  Her name in lovely April's name did hide,
  And leave it there, eternally allied
  To all the fairest flowers Spring did beget.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Memories, Spring, Flower

  Helen Hunt Jackson, “A Calendar Of Sonnets: April”

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• If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story we tell ourselves about who we are in the universe--has to change.

  Janine Benyus

  Nature, Animal, Tools

  Janine M. Benyus (2009). “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish.

  Leonardo Boff

  Justice, Society, Fruit

  Leonardo Boff (2001). “The Prayer of Saint Francis: A Message of Peace for the World Today”, p.44, Orbis Books

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• It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Happiness, Laughter

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• For the hundredth time tonight, I’m back with Lulu, on Jacques’s barge, the improbably named Viola. She’d just toldme the story of double happiness and we were arguing over the meaning. She’d thought it meant the luck of the boy getting the job and the girl. But I’d disagreed. It was the couplet fitting together, the two halves finding each other. It was love. But maybe we were both wrong, and both right. It’s not either or, not luck or love. Not fate or will. Maybe for double happiness, you need both.

  Gayle Forman

  Girl, Jobs, Fate

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• I used to think of two people in love like that. Like puzzle pieces, fitting together. But it's not like that at all. Love pulls a part of you out, and it pulls a part of him - like taffy, stretching but not separating. The tendrils of each one wrap around the other, until they meld together. One, but not quite. Separate, but not quite.

  Tammara Webber

  Thinking, Two, People

  Tammara Webber (2013). “Here Without You”, p.82, Tammara Webber

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• When this body has been so magnificently and artistically created by God, it is only fitting that we should maintain it in good health and harmony by the most excellent and artistic science of Yoga.

  Geeta Iyengar

  Yoga, Body, Artistic

  Geeta S. Iyengar (1998). “Yoga: A Gem for Women”, p.71, Allied Publishers

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• The most precise work is generally done by hand, with hand tools. Some people rely on machines for their precision, and my way of working is backwards. I rely on the machines for doing the gross stock removal and then, when it comes to the final refinements and fitting of joints and things, making things work together, I rely more on sharp-edged tools that I push by hand.

  Martin Puryear

  Hands, People, Together

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• Do not use your energy except for a cause more noble than yourself. Such a cause cannot be found except in Almighty God Himself: to preach the truth, to defend womanhood, to repel humiliation which your Creator has not imposed upon you, to help the oppressed. Anyone who uses his energy for the sake of the vanities of the world is like someone who exchanges gemstones for gravel. There is no nobility in anyone who lacks faith. The wise man knows that the only fitting price for his soul is a place in Paradise.

  Ibn Hazm

  Wise, Men, Vanity

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• To our way of thinking the Indians' symbol is the circle, the hoop. Nature wants to be round. The bodies of human beings and animals have no corners. With us, the circle stands for togetherness of people who sit with one another around the campfire, relatives and friends united in peace while the sacred pipe passes from hand to hand. To us this is beautiful and fitting, symbol and reality at the same time, expressing the harmony of life and nature.

  John Fire Lame Deer

  Beautiful, Reality, Thinking

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• Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.

  Bob Lilly

  Football, Player, Years

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• That is entirely fitting I'm sure, but I personally can't get over the memory of 2005. When Michael Jackson stood essentially alone and accused and convicted in the minds of many of the most perverse crime.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Memories, Mind, Crime

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• We’ve been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all, to prefer fitting in with the right people, the people with economic power. Now it’s your turn to stand up and stand out.

  Seth Godin

  Differences, People, Making A Difference

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• If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it. Because it'll never look good. Any hesitation in the fitting room and just walk away

  L'Wren Scott

  Feel Good, Looks, Rooms

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to ... turn my back on a great and noble heritage.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Thinking, Noble, Heritage

  "The Atlantic" Magazine, March 1964.

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• They praise these tiny indie bands, but if a band finally gets mainstream success, the same people who praised them attack them for 'selling out.' People often play at being nonconformists to mask their own feelings of not fitting in.

  Kyle Baker

  Play, People, Interesting

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• Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without his being aware of it? Yet by a complicated process of indoctrination, rewards, punishments, and fitting ideology, it solves this task by and large so well that most people believe they are following their own will and are unaware that their will itself is conditioned and manipulated.

  Erich Fromm

  Believe, Simple, Punishment

  Erich Fromm (2013). “To Have Or To Be?”, p.67, A&C Black

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• And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion.

  Amy Irving

  Fitness, Fashion, Baby

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• The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular.

  Pope John XXIII

  Catholic, Church, Noble

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