Fit Quotes - page 2

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. (Thomas Jefferson)
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. View quote
John Dewey
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in. View quote
David Lloyd George
Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission. View quote
Colin Powell
If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill. View quote
Alexander Pope
With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk. View quote
John von Neumann
Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes. View quote
Tori Amos
She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence. View quote
John Dryden
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes. (Arianna Huffington)
Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics. View quote
George Reisman
Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing. View quote
William Cowper
A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit. A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states. View quote
Václav Havel
As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition, too. View quote
Johnny Depp
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business. View quote
Francis Bacon
Only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, stay alive. View quote
Bob Marley
Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals is utterly useless to any one a blight never does good to a tree, if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight. View quote
William Blake
God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit. View quote
Johnny Cash
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. View quote
Sarah Orne Jewett
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. (Henry Adams)
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of a kind that physicists use and trying to fit them together in an interesting way, regardless of any application that the work may have. It is simply a search for pretty mathematics. It may turn out later to have an application. Then one has good luck. At age 78. View quote
Paul Dirac
The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all things considered, one would not normally choose to go. But, we go where the business is. View quote
Dick Cheney
I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform. View quote
Sting (musician)