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"Will you succeed because you are more well-rounded than others? Because you fit in better than everyone else? Bloody unlikely. We succeed when we are trusted to be the best at what we do."
"When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for."
"If the shoe fits, buy another one just like it."
"It's more than just selling pizzas. It's being a good fit for the community. We hire based on the betterment of the community as much as anything."
"How can the word love, the word life, even fit in the mouth?"
"Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached."
"They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall."
"There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet."
"My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it."
"God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit."
"I'm told some people no longer bother to have friends at all - can't fit them in."
"If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live."
"Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself."
"If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals"
"They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing."
"The hard part is, of course, the proximity of death. The number has no meaning as long as you're fit and healthy. But you know that you only have so much time left and you don't know how much it is. It could be a very short time."
"He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep them. A million things you can't have will fit in a human hand."
"Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?"
"I'm on a diet as my skin doesn't fit me anymore."
"You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own."
