“There are times when I want to be plainspoken about my feelings in a song. But there are other times when it's really good to try and get my head around different kinds of song structures, or maybe I might get turned on by trying to write a song that would fit in this one scene in a movie. And by the end of all this, you just end up with a bunch of different ideas. And songs are really just ideas.” WantWritingTryingKindIdeasDifferentEndsFeelingsMightSongFitSceneStructureBunchDifferent KindsDifferent Ideas Author:Ryan Adams
“BUILD UP YOUR CIRCLE.... A mind that perceives What can rationally be. A spirit that sees Innovative possibility. A heart that is open to Both beginnings and ends. A firm hand that fits readily To the reach of a friend.” MindHeartEndsHandsSpiritPossibilityFitCirclesPerceiveFirmInnovativeBeginnings And Ends Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayDifferentEndsStoriesFitBills Author:S. Robson Walton
“No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law ? i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.” WayMayLongDoeEndsLawEnjoyFitPursueWelfareConceptionAccord Book:Kant: Political Writings Source: Kant: Political Writings
“You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.” KnowsBookEndsFit Author:Maxwell Perkins
“God doth not promise here to man that HeWill free him quickly from his misery;But in His own time, and when He thinks fit,Then He will give a happy end to it.” ThinkingMenGivingEndsFitPromiseMisery Author:Robert Herrick
“How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over the sorrows of our human Brethren and Sisteren, we are in fact, tho' perhaps unconsciously, moved at the prospect of our own End for who sincerely pities Sea-sickness, Toothache, or a fit of the Gout in a lusty Good-liver of 50?” HumansEndsFactsChristianVirtueSeaFitSorrowMovedPitySicknessSensibilitySincerelyFear Of DeathMeltingLiverBrethrenToothacheGout Book:Collected Letters: 1820-1825 Source: Collected Letters: 1820-1825
“When we turn the Bible into an adjective and stick it in front of another loaded word, we tend to ignore or downplay the parts of the Bible that don’t quite fit our preferences and presuppositions. In an attempt to simplify, we force the Bible’s cacophony of voices into a single tone and turn a complicated, beautiful, and diverse holy text into a list of bullet points we can put in a manifesto or creed. More often than not, we end up more committed to what we want the Bible to say than what it actually says.” WantEndsBeautifulTurnsForceVoiceFrontsFitHolySticksCommittedComplicatedListsToneCreedsDiverseBulletsPreferenceSimplifyLoadedAdjectivesManifestosCacophony Author:Rachel Held Evans
“We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.” MindMayEndsKnowingFitCornersLawyerCuriousOddsInquisitivePatchworkOdds And Ends Book:A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens Source: A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens
“Strictly speaking, no person who believes that wars between classes and nations are inevitable is fit to be in charge of the destiny of children. To believe in the unity of the human race and get children to believe it in early youth would mean the creation of that unity and the end of war.” BelieveHumansMeanChildrenPersonsWarEndsNationsRaceClassDestinyCreationYouthFitUnityInevitableHuman Race Author:Dora Russell