Unfitted Quotes

#1. It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

Joseph Conrad

#2. Anyway, I am unfitted to hold down a job anywhere unless they were to pay me for getting angry at the world. 96

Joseph Roth

#3. Temperamentally unfitted for romance

F Scott Fitzgerald

#4. This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. The strength of one man is so unequal to his wants, and his mind so unfitted for perpetual solitude, that he is soon obliged to seek assistance and relief of another, who in his turn requires the same

Thomas Paine

#6.
the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man ...

Thomas Hardy

#7. To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#8. Gen. Washington having recrossed the Schuylkill, determined, on the 16th of September, again to meet Gen. Howe in the field of battle. The arrangements were made and the advance parties had already commenced firing, when there came on a violent shower of rain, which unfitted both armies for action.

Benjamin Tallmadge

#9. But I believed myself totally unfitted for the company of strangers. Such were my reflections as I commenced my journey; but as I proceeded, my spirits and hopes rose.

Mary Shelley

#10. And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.

Thomas Paine

#11. When we're talking about feminism, I get sort of lost in the argument. Because as a woman of color, I don't know where I belong in this argument. Where do I say, 'I would be happy to have less money'? How do you fight for your rights when I'm super-grateful to be here at all?

Margaret Cho

#12. To make people laugh, you must learn where and how to pause in your delivery.

Jeffrey Mason

#13. The university doesn't THINK; the university KNOWS. If the university says it's Thursday, then it's Thursday.

Carol Plum-Ucci

#14. All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility.

John Cassian

#15. So many great truths must be very gently introduced, with voices soft and the truths themselves understated.

Neale Donald Walsch

#16. The sphere of the attractive virtue which is in the moon extends as far as the earth, and entices up the waters; but as the moon flies rapidly across the zenith, and the waters cannot follow so quickly, a flow of the ocean is occasioned in the torrid zone towards the westward.

Johannes Kepler