Quotes about Fitting

Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out. Votes: 6

The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important. Votes: 4

I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways. Votes: 4

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. Votes: 4

Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results. Votes: 4

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible. Votes: 4

Fitting in is unnecessary. Embrace who you are. You will go through rough times in high school, but always stay strong, and never deny yourself! Votes: 4

In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people. Votes: 4

I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that. Votes: 4

Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or to run errands as often as you can - in other words, think of walking as alternative transportation. Votes: 4

I like how my body feels when I'm in shape; I love how it feels after I work out each day. Fitting in the clothes I like to wear comfortably and living a healthy lifestyle is important to me. Votes: 4

I feel like a turtleneck dress that's long-sleeved and covers your entire body but is tight fitting is so much sexier than boobs spilling out, you know? So I guess I'm more into being classy sexy versus apparent sexy. Votes: 4

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. Votes: 4

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. Votes: 4

I definitely understand not entirely fitting in. I think everyone has their own version of feeling out of place and I think one of the great things we have the ability to do is to know it's all right. It's OK to have that awkward phase. Votes: 4

Fitting people with books is about as difficult as fitting them with shoes. Votes: 3

Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run. Votes: 3

Fitting together is something you work at. It's something you make happen"”because you love each other. Votes: 3

My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh. Votes: 2

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory. Votes: 2

I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd. Votes: 2

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it. Votes: 2

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. Votes: 2

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. Votes: 2

My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting. Votes: 2

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it? Votes: 2

Good writing ... 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. Votes: 2

Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will. Votes: 2

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields. Votes: 2

When Fashion Week ends, I miss the shows and the shot of adrenaline that comes with them. Each day is a new show, a new fitting, and you make new friends. Every season you get to know the other girls a little better. Votes: 2

We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting that promotion - that it will make us happy. But the pain of our insecurity is hidden in all that racing around. Votes: 2

Appetite for Destruction' was the only thing written with lyrics and melody fitting the guitar parts at the same time. After that, I got a barrage of guitar songs that I was supposed to put words to, and I don't know if that was the best thing for Guns. Votes: 2

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams. Votes: 2

Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true. Votes: 2

When I was little, like Maleficent, I was told that I was different. And I felt out of place -- too loud, too full of fire, never good at sitting still, never good at fitting in. And, then one day I realized something, something that I hope you all realize: Different is good. Votes: 2

I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin. Votes: 2

It's called Seflish, which is fitting Votes: 0

Language is the close-fitting dress of thought. Votes: 0

For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting. Votes: 0

Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment. Votes: 0

God complaines not, but doth what is fitting. Votes: 0

Eccentricity gives misfits a way of fitting in. Votes: 0

Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere. Votes: 0

It is fitting for a great nation to yield. Votes: 0

Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland. Votes: 0

To many men well-fitting doors are not set on their tongues. Votes: 0

I believe life's too short for compromises and bad fitting jeans Votes: 0

So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act. Votes: 0

It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with badly-fitting panty hose all over. Votes: 0

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing. Votes: 0

When you become tired of fitting in, is when you truly become yourself Votes: 0

Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities. Votes: 0

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out? Votes: 0

And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment. Votes: 0

Did other people have this much trouble fitting in, or was it just her? Votes: 0

It is a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon, "launder" became a dirty word. Votes: 0

In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource. Votes: 0

It's been proven that fitting more activity into your day can greatly improve your health. Votes: 0

...maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one. Votes: 0

Good shoes are important. I wear English brogues in a wide fitting. They last me years. Votes: 0

So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background. Votes: 0

I live my life as I deem appropriate and fitting; I offer no apologies, no explanations. Votes: 0

If my soul exists without my body I am convinced all my clothes will be loose-fitting Votes: 0

I'm a stylist, so I've been conditioned to setting up my own clothes like a fitting. Votes: 0

The wise man knows the only fitting price for his soul is a place in Paradise. Votes: 0

You can't be a crazy rebel in the face of death, it's not a fitting attitude. Votes: 0

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it. Votes: 0

Somehow it just don't seem fitting for a man to spend his wedding night in a tree. Votes: 0

Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress. Votes: 0

The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch. Votes: 0

Surely that which occupies the total time and energies of heaven must be a fitting pattern for earth. Votes: 0

This imperiousness which aids us in all things is merely a fitting authority which comes from superior spirit. Votes: 0

It is a decision that compassion is more important than fear, than fitting in, than following the crowd. Votes: 0

With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting. Votes: 0

Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves. Votes: 0

But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects. Votes: 0

A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization. Votes: 0

I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space. Votes: 0

In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response. Votes: 0

You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human. Votes: 0

Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us. Votes: 0

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it. Votes: 0

The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is, O ye gods, give me whatever is fitting unto me! Votes: 0

It's quite fitting that Slash is getting a star on the very street Axl Rose will one day be sleeping on, Votes: 0

The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting. Votes: 0

I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage. Votes: 0

I have learned from nature that all is equal... all is equal and in balance. I see everything as fitting together. Votes: 0

Any master skill in practice is about comprehending myriad elements and fitting them together in inspired ways that satisfy the objective. Votes: 0

For we did not and do not wish the Temple to be placed in any servitude except that which is fitting. Votes: 0

When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish. Votes: 0

I'm kind of a beach bum from Florida, and I have a very different style. I like tight-fitting, Euro-fitting clothes, colored pants. Votes: 0

Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply. Votes: 0

If there is continuity in the universe, it is fitting that there should be intelligent beings without bodies which are called angels. Votes: 0

A fitting room to me has always been like a confessional ... where my body and my contrition take up the entire room. Votes: 0

Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference. Votes: 0

It was a sphincter at the top of a black bowl. A fitting commentary on the FAYZ, Diana thought. A giant sphincter. Votes: 0

Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one. Votes: 0

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you. Votes: 0

The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society. Votes: 0

Women always seemed to bring the size they wished they were to the fitting room, rather than the size that would actually fit. Votes: 0

Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place. Votes: 0

At this place, Jews have prayed throughout the generations, and it is fitting that the message of brotherhood should go out from here. Votes: 0

God blesses still the generous thought,And still the fitting word He speeds,And Truth, at His requiring taught,He quickens into deeds. Votes: 0

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest. Votes: 0

Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . . Votes: 0

When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting. Votes: 0

Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. Votes: 0

My essentials are skinny jeans, loose-fitting tees, big jumpers, and the leather jacket. Everything is black or blue - I don't own anything colorful. Votes: 0

Beauty is the replication and duplication of mind's delusion. It is not uniqueness or exceptionality; it is the mentality of belonging and fitting in. Votes: 0

I tried so hard to fit in different places and people,but finally decided to try fitting in me. It was a perfect fit. Votes: 0

Al Gore has endorsed Howard Dean for president. That's pretty fitting, the guy that didn't beat Bush endorsing the guy who won't beat Bush. Votes: 0

Don't worry about not fitting in. The things that make people think you're weird are what makes you you, and therefore your greatest strength. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be. Votes: 0

I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the difference - being unpredictable. Votes: 0

We chose it's name [Give the People What They Want] a while ago, long before the cancer. But I can't think of a more fitting title. Votes: 0

The Roman Pontiffs have always...held that all those rites should be preserved which deviate neither from accuracy in matters of faith, nor from what is fitting. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war. Votes: 0

I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone. Votes: 0

I love a loose-fitting skirt with a cinched waist. A feminine silhouette is a no-stress zone - it's comfortable and I don't have to worry about wardrobe malfunctions! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that. Votes: 0

Even the human race can't claim to be natural anymore. We are fake, dying things. How fitting that I would end up in this sham of a marriage. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Comedies are fit for common wits: But to present a kingly troop withal, Give me a stately-written tragedy; Tragadia cothurnata, fitting kings, Containing matter, and not common things. Votes: 0

What I wear is constantly evolving. I am really big on comfortable clothes. I love soft, loose-fitting clothing that has some edge or something new/fresh to it. Votes: 0

Atque in pepetuum, frater, ave atque vale,” he whispered. The words of the poem had never seemed so fitting: Forever and ever, my brother, hail and farewell. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is not fitting that the evil produced by men should be imputed to things; let those bear the blame who make an ill use of things in themselves good. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The American work environment has to change, not the women. We should be recognizing that what women are not fitting into is a very narrow, male-dominated workplace of the 1950s. Votes: 0

It's now possible to have your body 3D-imaged from head to toe at a sub-millimeter accuracy, showing every ripple of muscle or cellulite, to allow the perfect-fitting jeans or shoes. Votes: 0

Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply go on following their nature. Votes: 0

You should hear what my parents wanted to call me. It was between Brown Rice, Neon Hitch and Z. Ziggurat Zanzibar Zandorf. I'm not joking. Imagine fitting that on my passport! Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

I think of myself as an Indian comedian, but I've had British and American schooling. I always had this feeling of not fitting in anywhere, of observing situations from the outside. Votes: 0

From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed. . . . Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers. Votes: 0

...the title 'Righteousness' is given to God because He assigns what is appropriate to all things; he distributes their due proportion, beauty, rank, arrangement, their proper and fitting place and order... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory. The old lie: It is sweet and fitting that you should die for your country. Votes: 0

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands Votes: 0

Lily had no real intimacy with nature but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations. Votes: 0

I remember going to the wardrobe-fitting for the first time and seeing all the cool high-waisted jeans and halter-tops - and that style is coming back anyway - so I loved that! Votes: 0

Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning. Selfishness is like listening to good jazz With drinks for further orders and a huge fire. Votes: 0

I had a hard enough time in high school, fitting in without having to keep up with Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook - all these ways you have to keep up your image. Votes: 0

To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without. Votes: 0

I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we're sort of just chipping away. Votes: 0

Senator Kennedy inspired so many with his decades of service, so I can't think of a more fitting tribute then working to educate and motivate future generations of citizens and public servants alike. Votes: 0

Overall, while the Rovi entertainment store is a nice stand-alone offering, more importantly, however, it is also a part of our total customer solution, fitting in now with our data and TotalGuide offerings. Votes: 0

The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society. Votes: 0

We see women who go out and want to look like Jennifer Aniston, and they're wearing an ill-fitting red dress and ugly gold shoes, and they've got flat hair and they can't walk. Votes: 0

Right now I'm not fitting into the coach's plans and so I just want to make sure I can do the best I can and improve myself and make sure I get picked. Votes: 0

I really love music that's on the periphery of not fitting into a clear genre. I felt like I was constantly being described as something I didn't really feel like I identified with. Votes: 0

It's especially fitting that they call a cruise ship 'she,' for she is pregnant with a thousand adult embryos who long to stay forever warm and sheltered in this great white womb. Votes: 0

First time I looked at a Formula One car in person, I just stared at the cockpit, figuring I'd never get in there. The drivers wear the whole car like a tight-fitting suit. Votes: 0

I spent most of my career, including my time at McKinsey, never acknowledging that I was a woman. And, you know, fast forward - I'm 43 now - fitting in is not helping us. Votes: 0

It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need. Votes: 0

I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment! Votes: 0

The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together. Votes: 0

New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like. Votes: 0

I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting. Votes: 0

I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting. Votes: 0

Its been nearly 1.5 years since the last PLUS 8 record, but it seemed fitting that this record in particular, made by a skinny white kid from Canada, became part of the labels collection and history. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise. Votes: 0

Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree. Votes: 0

There's nothing cooler than a good fitting, worn-in pair of Wrangler jeans, so it's great that with the new Retro line, my fans can go out and rock the same styles that I love. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Never dress older than you are! The five wardrobe items you must have are a nice pair of well-fitting shoes, pajamas, sexy yet comfortable lingerie, a party dress in a bold colour and a jumpsuit. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Too many parents fail to understand that there is a difference between fitting in and being liked, that there is a difference between being normal and being happy. High school is temporary. Family is not. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him. Votes: 0

It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom. Votes: 0