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There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception. Stephen King
Oswald Chambers quote: "Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the..."
Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work. Oswald Chambers
Confucius quote: "The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be..."
The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. Confucius
The Form of Government, which you admire, when its Principles are pure is admirable, indeed, it is productive of every Thing, which is great and excellent among Men. But its Principles are as easily destroyed, as human Nature is corrupted. Such a Government is only to be supported by pure Religion or Austere Morals. Public Virtue cannot exist in a Nation without private virtue....Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company:...I mean Hell. John Adams
Margaret Atwood quote: "Though at that time men and women tried each other on,..."
Though at that time men and women tried each other on, casually, like suits, rejecting whatever did not fit. Margaret Atwood
As symbol, or as the structuring of symbols, art can render intelligible -- or at least visible, at least discussible -- those wilderness regions which philosophy has abandoned and those hazardous terrains where science's tools do not fit. I mean the rim of knowledge where language falters; and I mean all those areas of human experience, feeling, and thought about which we care so much and know so little: the meaning of all we see before us, of our love for each other, and the forms of... Annie Dillard
Frank Zappa quote: "One size does not fit all."
One size does not fit all. Frank Zappa
Until then she hadn't considered that there was a trade off, that she might not fit anymore in places where she'd been comfortable. Jodi Picoult
The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the category of familiarity. Noam Chomsky
Books are the best type of influence of the past...Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this. Ralph Waldo Emerson
George Bernard Shaw quote: "I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady..."
I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else. George Bernard Shaw
An attitude to life which seeks fulfilment in thesingle-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into thisworld, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while theenvironment in which it is placed is strictly limited. E. F. Schumacher
Agatha Christie quote: "If the fact will not fit the theory - let the theory go"
If the fact will not fit the theory - let the theory go Agatha Christie
Martin Luther King jr. quote: "If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, then he is not..."
If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, then he is not fit to live. Martin Luther King jr.
ye are a great piper. I'm not fit to blow in the same kingdom with ye. Body of me! ye have mair music in your sporran than I have in my head; And though it still stick in my mind that I could maybe show you another of it with the cold steel, I warn you beforehand-it'll no be fair! It would go against my heart to haggle a man that can blow the pipes as you can! Robert Louis Stevenson

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