Quotes of Unsuited - somelinesforyou

“ How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean. ”

- Arthur C. Clarke

“ One swallow maketh not a summer. ”

- John Heywood

“ Such references are inappropriate and insensitive, and, as part of a discussion of the death penalty in the Commonwealth of Virginia, trivialize the horrors of the Holocaust. ”

- David Friedman

“ He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule. ”

- Seneca

“ Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit. ”

- John Dryden

“ Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done. ”

- Fred A. Allen

“ The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. ”

- Lord Acton

“ The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ This mode of electioneering suited neither my taste nor my principles. I thought it equally unsuitable to my personal character and to the station in which I am placed. ”

- John Adams

“ Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile. ”

- Julie Burchill

“ A true "personality"... is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable. ”

- Gustav Mahler

“ Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ He is employed by the Holland Group, which provides staffing for our substitute teachers,... He apparently used some inappropriate language and called a student 'heathen.'. ”

- James Evans

“ Under such circumstances, it's inappropriate for the council to pre-judge the outcome of the investigation and to threaten to impose sanctions. It does not help. ”

- Li Zhaoxing

“ The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth. ”

- James Allen

“ Although I am increasingly hopeful that my personal legal situation will be resolved in the near future, it is still inappropriate for me to discuss anything relating to them on this call. ”

- Martha Stewart

“ All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit. ”

- Sophocles

“ Stress is an inappropriate fight-flight response, Wisdom Quest. ”

- Deepak Chopra

“ Now is not the time to open the border to receive Canadian beef down to the United States. ”

- Max Baucus

“ Now is not the time to have this particular debate,... inappropriate and ill-advised.... It makes the House a laughing stock. ”

- Martin Frost

“ The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service. ”

- Joseph Heller

“ It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war. ”

- Mike Farrell

“ Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ A committee is a group of the unwilling chosen form the unfit, to do the unnecessary. ”

- Unknown

“ Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by them. ”

- William Wycherley

“ Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. ”

- James Madison
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