Fitting Quotes - Page 5

• I have always disliked being a man. The whole idea of manhood in America is pitiful, in my opinion. This version of masculinity is a little like having to wear an ill-fitting coat for one's entire life (by contrast, I imagine femininity to be an oppressive sense of nakedness).

  Paul Theroux

  Men, America, Ideas

  Paul Theroux (1986). “Sunrise with Seamonsters”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's really tough to make a name for yourself without compromising and without fitting yourself into a real specific mold. When I made the choice that I would be involved in every aspect of music and not necessarily make music for radio or MTV, I was saying, 'OK, this is me. You decide who it is.'

  Josh Groban

  Real, Mtv, Names

  Inside Connection magazine, February 2004.

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• There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis , because it guarantees complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost a canonical status in Protestant theology. But now, we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.

  Karl Barth

  Ideas, Prejudice, Guarantees

  Karl Barth (2004). “Church Dogmatics: The doctrine of the word of God (2 pts.)”, p.469, A&C Black

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• Any man who can look handsome in a dirty baseball suit is an Adonis. There is something about the baggy pants, and the Micawber-shaped collar, and the skull-fitting cap, and the foot or so of tan, or blue, or pink undershirt sleeve sticking out at the arms, that just naturally kills a man's best points.

  Edna Ferber

  Baseball, Dirty, Men

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• Sculpture is a series of 3-dimensional shapes which, while fitting together, cause the perception of lines to the viewer, even where they do not exist.

  Edward J. Fraughton

  Perception, Together, Sculpture

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• Fitting people with books is about as difficult as fitting them with shoes.

  Sylvia Beach

  Book, Shoes, People

  Sylvia Beach (1991). “Shakespeare and Company”, p.105, U of Nebraska Press

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• God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Purity, Should, Virgins

  "Mary for Earth and Heaven" by William McLaughlin, p. 115-116, 2002.

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• The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the Italian frescoes & the first ones we met quite startled us. They wear the tight-fitting trunk hose made of woolen stuff hooked up the back of the leg. It is white with long black stripes of embroidery down the leg & at the top in front the shirt is pulled through slashes. They are long slim chaps with dandy little moustaches & are most theatrical in effect.

  Edith Durham

  Italian, White, Long

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• I sketch in a way that people can nearly do the dresses without me coming in for a fitting. Every single detail, every proportion, every cut -- everything.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Cutting, People, Way

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• God blesses still the generous thought,And still the fitting word He speeds,And Truth, at His requiring taught,He quickens into deeds.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Generosity, Deeds, Taught

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.133

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• I wanted to start a menswear line of slim-fitting, luxury cashmere jumpers in a range of great colors. I know these jumpers will become season-less staples in my own wardrobe. Cashmere and silk printed scarves and hand-beaded T-shirts compliment the line and form a solid foundation for the collection to grow next season.

  Matthew Williamson

  Hands, Color, Luxury

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• I have learned from nature that all is equal... all is equal and in balance. I see everything as fitting together.

  Joseph Raffael

  Balance, Together, I Have Learned

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• It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of human ity.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Dedication, People, Causes

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1960). “India's Spokesman: From Speeches and Addresses”

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• Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our own judgment and reason, listening to the voice within, not to the noisy babel without. Most of us possess discriminating reasoning powers. Can we use them or must we be fed by others like babes?

  Luther Burbank

  Fear, Book, Voice

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• A fitting room to me has always been like a confessional ... where my body and my contrition take up the entire room.

  Erma Bombeck

  Rooms, Body, Contrition

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?”, p.101, Open Road Media

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• It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Contentment, Spirit, Duty

  Frederick William Robertson (1871). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.775

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• I paint - I tend more to abstraction - but not as much as I would like to because of time. I would love to do sculpture - I've toyed with the idea of fitting in a sculpture course.

  Lily Cole

  Ideas, Sculpture, Paint

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

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• I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.

  Brie Larson

  School, Kids, Opportunity

  "Brie Larson 21 JUMP STREET Set Visit Interview". Interview with Brendan Bettinger, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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• Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Jobs, Car, Upholstery

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• You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days.

  Beth Gibbons

  Trying, Three, Needs

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• Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply.

  William Butler Yeats

  Running, Imagination, What If

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.129

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• One paper says I'm Catholic and the other says I'm Jewish. I guess that's fitting because as a Methodist I'm meant to be undetermined some of the time.

  Martha Raye

  Catholic, Paper, Methodists

  "Take It from the Big Mouth: The Life of Martha Raye" by Jane Maddern Pittrone, (p. 216), April 8, 1999.

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• It's been proven that fitting more activity into your day can greatly improve your health.

  Pierre Dukan

  Activity, Proven

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• How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  World, Reason, Irrational

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.57, Penguin

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• The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Art, Expression, Sublime

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