Fitting Quotes - Page 9

• Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as his most fitting successor.

  Vincent Price

  Kings, Children, Men

  "Fictional character: The Spirit of the Nightmare". "Alice Cooper: The Nightmare", www.imdb.com. 1975.

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• We enjoyed the fact that we were called to the folk festivals and we got to know Joan Baez, Dylan. We were singing strictly gospel, but then after we started hearing songs that they would sing, we saw that those songs were very fitting for us because they were singing the truth, and truth is gospel.

  Mavis Staples

  Song, Singing, Festivals

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• The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch.

  Julius Streicher

  Roots, Devil, Branches

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• Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

  Georges Rouault

  Mean, Expression, Sincere

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• We should not bear it with bad grace if the answer to our prayer is long delayed. Rather, let us, because of this, show great patience and resignation. For He delays for this reason: that we may offer Him a fitting occasion of honoring us through His divine providence.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Long, Catholic

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• Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.

  St. Jerome

  Catholic, Doubt, Favors

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• We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

  T. S. Eliot

  Judging, Tests, Novelty

  T. S. Eliot (1998). “The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• For we did not and do not wish the Temple to be placed in any servitude except that which is fitting.

  Jacques de Molay

  Wish, Temples, Servitude

  "The Last Templar: The Tragedy of Jacques de Molay". Book by Alain Demurger, 2009.

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• Somehow it just don't seem fittin' for a bridegroom to spend his weddin' night in a tree.

  Jane Powell

  Night, Men, Tree

  "Fictional character: Milly". "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers", www.imdb.com. July 15, 1954.

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• Christ came to give us a justifying righteousness, and He also came to make us holy — not chiefly for the purpose of evidencing here our possession of a justifying righteousness — but for the purpose of forming and fitting us for a blessed eternity.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Blessed, Giving, Purpose

  William Hanna, Thomas Chalmers (1850). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers, D.D. LL.D.”, p.184

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• One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.

  A. N. Wilson

  Army, Reality, Black

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• So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.

  Edward Thorndike

  Animal, Situation

  "The Evolution of the Human Intellect".

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• I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

  Jodi Picoult

  Things To Do, Stills, Wrong Things

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Perfect Match”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the road and head off in the direction of fitting in, getting by, being productive, what have you. Whatever we might gain – money, position, the approval of others, or just absence of the discontent self – it’s not worth it.

  John Eldredge

  Country, Kings, Heart

  "The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life You've Always Dreamed Of".

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• I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of these years were discarded like badly fitting clothes. I parted from them without pain and all that remained was to wonder that I could have endured them so long.

  Hermann Hesse

  Pain, Years, Clothes

  Hermann Hesse (1969). “Gertrude”

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• He touches my face, covering my cheeks with his hands, sliding his fingertips down my neck, fitting his fingers to the slight curve of my hips. I can't stop.

  Veronica Roth

  Curves, Hands, Covering

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• So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.

  Steve Martin

  Wicked, Details, Standing Out

  Steve Martin (2010). “An Object of Beauty”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• Things are going so well. We’re volleying words back and forth. Everything she says, I have something I can say back. We’re sparking, and part of me just wants to sit back and watch. We’re clicking. Not because a part of me is fitting into a part of her. But because our words are clicking into each other to form sentences and our sentences are clicking into each other to form dialogue and our dialogue is clicking together to form this scene from this ongoing movie that’s as comfortable as it is unrehearsed.

  David Levithan

  Together, Watches, Our Words

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.47, Egmont UK

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• In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Sick, Healthy, Difficulty

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• You know what Hans told me last week?" she says as I open the door of my fitting room. "He told me to write down a list of everything I wanted to say about that women-and then tear it up. He said I'd feel a sense of freedom." "Oh right," I say interestedly. "So what happened?" "I wrote it all down," says Laurel. "And then I mailed it to her!

  Sophie Kinsella

  Writing, Doors, Tears

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• After it's all over, the early childhood, a chain of birthdays woven with candlelight, piles of presents, voices of relatives singing and praising your promise and future, after the years of schooling, fitting yourself into different size desks, memorizing, reciting, reporting, and performing for jury after jury of teachers, counselors, and administrators, you still feel inadequate, alone, vulnerable, and naked in a world that can be unforgiving and terribly demanding.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Teacher, Years, Voice

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• Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their character.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Small Numbers, Order

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.129, OUP Oxford

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• Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear. If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.

  Pat Conroy

  Life Changing, Writing, Thinking

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• Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.

  Jasper Fforde

  Fall, Shoes, One Day

  Jasper Fforde (2011). “One of our Thursdays is Missing: Thursday Next”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• I have a dress fitting to get to at three.' (Simon) 'Cool,' said Kyle, slinging his messenger bag over his shoulder and heading for the door. 'Get them to make you something in red. It's totally your color.

  Cassandra Clare

  Doors, Color, Dresses

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