Suits Quotes - Page 12

• Class isn't something you buy. Look at you ... you've got on a $500 suit and you're still a low life.

  Nick Nolte

  Money, Class, Looks

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• No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

  Frederick Banting

  Book, Science, Beer

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• The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are not to know that he wants us to believe something he supposes to be false. The fact about himself that the bullshitter hides, on the other hand, is that the truth-values of his statements are of no central interest to him . . . He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Honesty, Liars, Believe

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• A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Men, Wife, Action

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• There is an eternal dispute between those who imagine the world to suit their policy, and those who correct their policy to suit the realities of the world.

  Albert Sorel

  Reality, World, Action

  "Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations". Edited by Suzy Platt, 1989.

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• Once the day is over in volleyball, I leave the court and no one sees or hears from me for the rest of the day. I like to keep work at work. It's pretty easy for me to live a pretty normal life. I like to coach and I like to sit in a crowd at a baseball game. No one really recognizes me unless I'm walking around a beach half-naked in a suit with my name on it. Of course, I have it easier than Kerri. When you're 6-3 you tend to stick out a little bit.

  Misty May-Treanor

  Baseball, Volleyball, Beach

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• One or another man, liberated or cursed, suddenly sees-but even this man sees rarely-that all we are is what we aren't, that we fool ourselves about what's true and are wrong about what we conclude is right. And this man, who in a flash sees the universe naked, creates a philosophy or dreams up a religion; and the philosophy spreads and the religion propagates, and those who believe in the philosophy begin to wear it as a suit they don't see, and those who believe in the religion put it on as a mask they soon forget.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Philosophy, Philosophical

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 255, 1982.

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• Yogas chitta vritti nirodhah - (Yoga is to check the mind from changing) - which is acceptable to all. That is also the goal of all. The method is chosen according to one's own fitness. The goal for all is the same. Yet different names are given to the goal only to suit the process preliminary to reaching the goal. Bhakti, Yoga, Jnana are all the same.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Yoga

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• The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.

  Truman Capote

  Love, Dream, Children

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.120, Vintage

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• We read to find out what the world is like, to experience lots of lives, not just the one we live. If it is true that our lives are chaotic and we crave a shape, stories are the shapes that we put on experience, containing all the wisdom in the world. We can even choose what kind of wisdom suits us.

  Ramona Koval

  Education, Wisdom, Learning

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• I can go all over the world with just three outfits: a blue blazer and gray flannel pants, a gray flannel suit, and black tie.

  Pierre Cardin

  Blue, Ties, Black

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• All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.

  John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

  Peace, War, Want

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• Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. You know the ones: Was, did, had, made, went, looked... One-size-fits-all looks like crap on anyone. Sew yourself a custom made suit. Pick a better verb. Challenge all those verbs to really lift some weight for you.

  Janet Fitch

  Running, Writing, People

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• Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Life, Brother, Book

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.207, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mind, World, May

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.211, Modern Library

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• It has always been like that with changes. In 1913, we established divorce as a right for women in Uruguay. You know what they were saying back then? That families would dissolve. That it was the end of good manners and society. There has always been a conservative and traditional opinion out there that's afraid of change. When I was young and would go dancing at balls, we'd have to wear suits and ties. Otherwise they wouldn't let us in. I don't think anyone dresses up for dancing parties nowadays.

  Jose Mujica

  Powerful, Party, Humble

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• They wear suits, that's why they are lazy. They are servants, they are supposed to serve us. You can't build an RDP house with a tie.

  Julius Malema

  Ties, House, Voting

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• The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Style, Evolution, Modern

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.126, Routledge

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• A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Baseball, Party, Pockets

  Sinclair Lewis (2015). “Babbitt”, p.19, Penguin

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• It's so much easier to sit home and not exercise and criticize other people. What I love is inspiring people. People come up to me and say, 'I want to have two kids and wear a bathing suit and not feel terrible about myself. I see how hard you work and it makes me feel like I can do that too.'

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Home, Kids

  "The Spellbinder: Gwyneth Paltrow" by Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. August 3, 2011.

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• The fault with all religions like Christianity is that they have one set of rules for all. But Hindu religion is suited to all grades of religious aspiration and progress. It contains all the ideals in their perfect form. For example, the ideal of Shanta or blessedness is to be found in Vasishtha; that of love in Krishna; that of duty in Rama and Sita; and that of intellect in Shukadeva. Study the characters of these and of other ideal men. Adopt one which suits you best.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Character, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2614, Manonmani Publishers

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• Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Fashion, Men

  Albert Einstein (1987). “The collected papers of Albert Einstein: The Berlin years, writings, 1918-1921”, p.43, Princeton University Press

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• The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be intrigued. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large. The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.

  Raymond Chandler

  Real, Clothes, Perfect

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.134, Univ of California Press

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• I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.

  Helen Keller

  Stupid, Mean, Bores You

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.81, Om Books International

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• I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well

  Oscar Wilde

  Style, Never Quit, Absinthe

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