Top 100 Quotes About Fitting In
#1. And, anyway it's not always about fitting in."
"It's not?"
"Nope. Sometimes, it's about reading your environment real quick, and then finding the bits that fit you.
Melissa Keil
#2. I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.
C. JoyBell C.
#3. Why did some people hear the voice, loud and clear, while others just floated from thing to thing, from person to person, never completely fitting in, never entirely at home.
Rachael Herron
#4. No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.
Josiah Royce
#5. 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.
Karl Lagerfeld
#6. When people look at me, they automatically assume I'm dark and weird. Why can't they see the truth? I'm just a girl, trying to find my place in the world.
Gena Showalter
#7. Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?
Mitt Romney
#8. I have learned from nature that all is equal ... all is equal and in balance. I see everything as fitting together.
Joseph Raffael
#9. It made her smile a little at how fitting it was to think that an entrance to Hades could be somewhere in the financial district of Manhattan.
David Berger
#10. They look up at me and see a rich lady in maternity clothes. They don't realize I am one of them.
Jodi Picoult
#11. Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
St. Jerome
#12. I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.
Wil Wheaton
#13. 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.
Shirley Manson
#14. I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
Tre Cool
#15. I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.
Morgan Brittany
#16. 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
#17. One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.
Robert Musil
#18. 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.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
#19. 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.
Colbie Caillat
#20. We are all born with an open heart, but at some point as we are growing up, things happen in our lives where we start to shut down, like rejection, not fitting in, wanting approval, judgments, comparisons, and criticism of others.
Agapi Stassinopoulos
#21. Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress.
Bruno Tonioli
#22. How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?
Rabih Alameddine
#23. My singing is really important to me, but when children come along they'll be my main focus. I'd never put my career in front of my babies - it'd be a case of fitting jobs around them.
Katy Perry
#24. But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.
Cressida Cowell
#25. And it only seems fitting that, in this moment of illusion, the words just come out of me. I love you, too.
Lauren DeStefano
#26. Take comfort in the knowledge that you are different, even from the different ones.
Joyce Rachelle
#27. Fitting is a luxury rarely given to immigrants, or children of immigrants. We are stuck in emotional purgatory. Home, somehow, is always the last place you left, and never the place you're in.
Scaachi Koul
#28. Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?
Dr. Seuss
#29. The mind-sets, views, and affective relations of human beings living in a shared world make a difference in what each of us thinks is possible, fitting, or just. A vast revolution can occur in that tiny space.
Jill Stauffer
#30. You can't be a crazy rebel in the face of death, it's not a fitting attitude.
Michel Houellebecq
#31. Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
Bernard M. Baruch
#32. The more I lied, the closer I came to fitting in. Sometimes I even believed myself.
Sara Novic
#33. If she had been in charge of designing the human race she would have gone about things differently. (A golden shaft of light through the ear for conception perhaps and a well-fitting hatch somewhere modest for escape nine months later.)
Kate Atkinson
#34. No, no, no! I am not giving birth backstage at a rock concert. I need to be in a hospital, pumped full of every drug that they can legally give me!
I was so shocked, my only repsonse was,
'Well, he was conceived backstage at a concert, so it's sort of fitting for him to be born at one.
S.C. Stephens
#35. That empty sick feeling came over me again. In a big school it was easy to fade into the background, but I didn't know if that would be possible here. I tried not to think about it anymore.
Dana Michelle Burnett
#36. It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
Francis Of Assisi
#37. It's a fitting punishment for a monster. to want something so much - to hold it in your arms - and know beyond a doubt you will never deserve it.
Renee Ahdieh
#38. Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging, on the other hand, doesn't require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are.
Brene Brown
#39. Fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government; that the path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposed grievances and proposed remedies; and that the fitting remedy for evil counsels is good ones.
Louis D. Brandeis
#40. The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.
Gabriel Mann
#41. It was ironic but somehow fitting that the 1905 Revolution should have been started by an organisation dreamed up by the tsarist regime itself. No-one believed more than Father Gapon in the bond between Tsar and people.
Orlando Figes
#42. I suppose you could call me ... Soot," said the thing. "Yes ... Soot. I have breathed it, lived in it, and eaten it for so long that it is a fitting name."
"Eaten it?" asked Suzy. "Why eat soot?"
"Boredom," said Soot.
Garth Nix
#43. So you're a little weird? Work it! A little different? OWN it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!
Mandy Hale
#44. Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
Seth Godin
#45. The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important.
Simon Sinek
#46. Friends are a wonderful thing. They won't make you feel like a nothing.
Justine Hail
#47. What Paul is saying is that when we "do church," we are to do it in a proper and fitting manner. There should be order, not chaos. There should be sensibility, not insensitivity. There should be consistency, not discord. There should be guidance, not irresponsibility.
Robert H. Welch
#48. In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.
FKA Twigs
#49. I think fitting in is highly overrated. I'd rather just fit out ... Fitting out means being who you are, even when people insist that you have to change. Fitting out means taking up space, not apologizing for yourself, and not agreeing with those who seek to label you with stereotypes.
Golda Poretsky
#50. If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me.
Joyce Rachelle
#51. The curve of my waist in a tight fitting summer dress can really make me new friends.
Sara Sheridan
#52. 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.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#53. 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.
Isocrates
#55. You could guarantee a decent cup of coffee in Betty's, but it went beyond the decent coffee and the respectable girls (and women) who had been parcelled up some time in the 1930s and freshly unwrapped this morning. It was the way that everything was exactly right and fitting. And clean.
Kate Atkinson
#56. So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.
Edward Thorndike
#57. 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.
Geraldo Rivera
#58. Sisters, when about their work, should not put on clothing which would make them look like images to frighten the crows from the corn. It is more gratifying to their husbands and children to see them in a becoming, well-fitting, attire, than it can be to merely visitors or strangers.
Ellen G. White
#59. The wind blowing through the cracks in the walls was fitting for this isolated and lonely place.
Nancy B. Brewer
#60. It's better to be a "misfit" than a "one-size-fits-all"!
Mandy Hale
#61. Don't stay in the harbour and miss the greatness of the sea. Just because everyone else is anchored, doesn't mean you have to be.
Joyce Rachelle
#62. We are different personality types with different needs and motivations. In our culture, different is scary. Extroverts have laid claim on the definition of normal, leaving introverts to feel guilty for not fitting in. While
Michaela Chung
#63. What other stuff do they teach you at federal agent school? I ask. It shouldn't bother me that he's fitting in so well. So what if he's faking it? Good for him. I guess what bothers me is him faking it better than I am.
Holly Black
#64. 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
#65. I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.
Gary Oldman
#66. Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#67. He'd walked as a ghost in the gloomy bowels of this opera house for so long, darkness had become his brother, which was fitting, since his father was the night, and sunlight their forgotten friend.
A.G. Howard
#68. You can set up an altar to God in your minds by means of prayer. And so it is fitting to pray at your trade, on a journey, standing at a counter or sitting at your handicraft.
Saint John Chrysostom
#69. I paint - I tend more to abstraction - but not as much as I would like to because of time. I would love to do sculpture - I've toyed with the idea of fitting in a sculpture course.
Lily Cole
#70. We must not define Jesus and his kingdom by fitting them within conventional understandings of kings and kingdoms. Rather, we must judge and deconstruct those conventional definitions in light of Jesus and his example.
Brian D. McLaren
#71. To endure all things, with an equable and peaceful mind, not only brings with it many blessings to the soul; but it also enables us, in the midst of our difficulties, to have a clear judgment about them, and to minister the fitting remedy for them.
San Juan De La Cruz
#72. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#73. The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#74. He'd captured her a couple of days ago. It was fitting that she capture him right back.
Erin Kellison
#75. 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.
Dani Shapiro
#76. I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
Nalo Hopkinson
#77. We won't be able to choose who we'll have to talk to in order to keep advancing in life. We won't always like them, and they will most likely not like us back either, so it's wrong to confine ourselves in our own little worlds when there's plenty of it outside to explore.
Pamela Nicole
#78. You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go.
"Aren't we all?" she said ...
Suzanne Palmieri
#79. People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
Warren Bennis
#80. Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then 15? months old. Seeing how strong a feeling of jealousy is in dogs, it would probably be exhibited by infants at any earlier age than just specified if they were tried in a fitting manner
Charles Darwin
#81. Millions of young people are shifting from one side to the other. They are like unguided missiles filled with energy and ambition and yet somehow not "fitting in." Peer pressure leads them astray ... [and] in thousands of churches they are led astray theologically.
Billy Graham
#82. But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects.
Dave Rowntree
#83. You wouldn't walk with your underpants stuck in your bottom, you'd adjust them. So don't treat life like ill-fitting wondering underpants, adjust it to be comfortable again
E.E.D. Horton
#84. Thank God he wasn't in full uniform or her panties might have melted.
Who was she kidding? The strap of silk covering the good china was already toast just looking at him in his form-fitting jeans and a black polo with the Salvation Police Department logo.
Avery Flynn
#85. His chief interest was in reading fiction, then trying to analyze what he had read, fitting it into a larger pattern.
Stephen King
#86. So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.
Steve Martin
#87. I have a dress fitting to get to at three.' (Simon)
'Cool,' said Kyle, slinging his messenger bag over his shoulder and heading for the door. 'Get them to make you something in red. It's totally your color.
Cassandra Clare
#88. Honestly, if you don't fit in then you're probably doing the right thing.
Lights Poxlietner
#89. Did other people have this much trouble fitting in, or was it just her?
Michelle Madow
#90. Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.
Clare Balding
#91. 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.
Alfred Amoroso
#92. I lie on the floor with my head on my books and my feet up on more of my books and stare up at the ceiling with its flystuck old electric fitting and at this point in the story even the ceiling is glorious.
Ali Smith
#93. 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
#94. She relaxed, fitting perfectly into my body. In the crisp, cold February air, we swayed together, moving to our own personal beat. For one moment, we escaped hell. No teachers, no therapist, no well-meaning friends, no nightmares-just the two of us, dancing.
Katie McGarry
#95. One night, encouraged by the male partners, I puffed away on a cigar - just one of the guys. Except that the smoking nauseated me and I reeked of cigar smoke for days. If that was fitting in, I stuck out.
Sheryl Sandberg
#96. 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.
Rumer Willis
#97. I'm a visual writer, so it's fitting that my first brush with 'Red Queen' was an image. I had the idea of a teenage girl in an arena, a bit like 'Gladiator,' and she's about to be executed. But instead of being killed, she kills her executioner with lightning.
Victoria Aveyard
#98. At the exact time that our society embraces shaming, blaming, judgment, and rejection, it also holds acceptance and belonging as immensely important. In other words, it's never been more impossible to 'fit in,' yet 'fitting in' has never been more important and valued
Brene Brown
#99. 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.
Maria Edgeworth
#100. To be united to God in unity of person was not fitting to human flesh, according to its natural endowments, since it was above his dignity; nevertheless, it was fitting that God, by reason of his infinite goodness, should unite it to himself for human salvation.
Thomas Aquinas
