#fitting

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. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#days #die #dog #dying #fitting

It's not the job of this town to make me feel happy. It's not this town´s fault that I don't feel I fit in. It doesn't matter where you are in the world, because it's about where you are in your head. It's about the other world I inhabit. The world of dreams, hope, imagination, and memories. I'm happy up here, and because of that I'm happy up there too ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#loneliness #philosophy-of-life-people #dreams

I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. I start to fit in. I start to love what others love. I start to call earth "home." Before you know it, I am calling luxeries "needs" and using my money just the way unbelievers do. I begin to forget the war. I don't think much about people perishing. Missions and unreached people drop out of my mind. I stop dreaming about the triumphs of grace. I sink into a secular mind-set that looks first to what man can do, not what God can do. It is a terrible sickness. And I thank God for those who have forced me again and again toward a wartime mind-set. ↗

— John Piper

#fitting-in #materialism #mind-set #missions #money

A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#complete #earn #education #eight #fitting

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

— Alan Davies

#cube #fitting #humanity #i #idea

In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource. ↗

— Jack Dee

#been #comedic #fitting #fitting in #many

This is a much more fitting interpretation of the book than its modern interpretation. ↗

— Robert Vaughan

#fitting #interpretation #modern #more #much

And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#espn #fired #fitting #i #me

My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh. ↗

— Carrot Top

#fitting in #jokes #laugh #making #people

They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March. ↗

— William John Wills

#expedition #exploration #fitting #fund #here