#fitting

If we can’t repair things with the Romans—well, the two sets of demigods have never gotten along. That’s why the gods kept us separate. I don’t know if we could ever belong there.” Percy didn’t want to argue, but he couldn’t let go of the hope. It felt important—not just for him, but for all the other demigods. It had to be possible to belong in two different worlds at once. After all, that’s what being a demigod was all about—not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus, but trying to make peace with both sides of their nature. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#families #fitting-in #percy-jackson #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians #relationships

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it. ↗

— Rick Warren

#fitting-in #life

I myself am opaque, for some reason. Their eyes cannot see me. Yes, that's it: The world is autistic with respect to me. ↗

— Anne Nesbet

#autism #fitting-in #respect

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

— Robert Ballard

#greatest #peaceful #place #quiet #remains

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

— Francis of Assisi

#face #fitting #gloomy #god #look

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. ↗

— Russell Baker

#computer #databases #day #fitting #glass

Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting. ↗

— Kristin Davis

#also #blonde #disease #does #everybody

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. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#course #culture #fitting #i #into

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

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#consensus #could #democratization #environment #external

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy. ↗

— Bill Bowerman

#basic principles #change #current #darn #differ