#fit

I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#beat #called #circle #fell #fit

It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#blueprints #duty #first #important #insurrection

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. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#arbitrary #contrasting #culture #diverse #each

At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#benefit #billion #deficit #increases #most

Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong. ↗

— Ken Mehlman

#am #benefit #chairman #gave #here

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. ↗

— Golda Meir

#before #fit #hesitate #his #into

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#associations #end #even #exactly #feel

The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted. ↗

— Gregor Mendel

#before #cannot #case #conducted #determined

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#be true #companies #index #large #profit

Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images. ↗

— James Merrill

#could #fascinating #fit #hope #i