Top 1200 One-Size-Fits-All Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

There's something about that puritanical narrative of progress and upward mobility and work ethic that the glorification of abstinence fits pretty neatly into. That pairs with the fact that 12-step recovery has had too large a monopoly on how treatment is understood in America.

Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos-a cult of two with fallible gods.

Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.

The size of your key ring is the size of your headaches. Si Redd once told me, "Every time you buy something you sell a piece of yourself." Why? Because you have to maintain it, to insure it, to worry about it. So the more you buy, the more you sell a piece of yourself and pretty soon you get so thin you can't do anything. So get rid of all those things and get back to the basics. Everybody has his own basics: it's what he enjoys. Si Redd told me I would "arrive" when I got down to one key. Still working on that!

You have to stop registering size with negativity. The biggest body can be absolutely beautiful.

I've written quite a few things, but I've put it on hold for now to see how everything fits together. Then I'll approach it and write specifically to see how the pieces fit in the puzzle.

Big, skinny, regular size it doesn't matter as long as your young.

People tell me I'm not supposed to do the things that I do at my size. I just take it as a blessing.

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

I'm really proud of 'Private Life.' It's about a marriage and a couple on the hunt to make a family by any means necessary. They're on such an obsessive quest that, after awhile, you forget that it's even for a baby. It fits right in that middle pocket of being a comedy and a drama.

If your problem is too big for you, it’s just the right size for God.

If there was going to be a pioneer of the plus-size girl of my shape on TV, why not me?

When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are.

I grew up playing rugby and I kind of never lost the muscle size.

What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it's seeing more than one part of the building at one time.

The tax code is 10 times the size of the Bible with none of the good news.

I do know when you look at some ballplayer and all of a sudden he is the size of a truck something is wrong.

I don't think there is any harm in being plus-size as long as you are fit internally.

I kept watching all the different 'Child's Play' sagas, right? Then all of a sudden I decided, 'He's short, I'm short. What a better concept?' It fits. If I can't make the song, why make the movies?

Success will not be yours unless you measure your dream. And guess what? Once you have measured it, people will say it's too big for you. That's when you can say, 'That's not true, it's so small it even fits in my head'.

In the jungle, size is king. Women like big men. That's just evolution.

I've shouted this from the rooftops, and I'll say it again: There's not another man on this Earth who is my size who can do what I do.

And now, the Superstore - unequaled in size, unmatched in variety, unrivaled inconvenience.

The size of General Motors is in the service not of monopoly or the economies of scale but of planning.

Laughter is the only thing that'll cut trouble down to a size where you can talk to it.

We often try to put God in a box. The God who fits in our boxes isn't the God & Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Every musician creates a bank. You'll first check if any of the songs from the bank fits in, and if you feel it does, you suggest it to the filmmakers. Sometimes it works, while sometimes it gets rejected.

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.

If you think broadly about business, population size is a very important factor.

Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand? The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

Someone who goes with a half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone who wants no more, who is not himself longed for by anyone else. He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

I was thrilled when a designer shop assistant said I was a size smaller than Madonna!

Everything is sold to skill and labor; and where nature furnishes the materials, they are still rude and unfinished, till industry, ever active and intelligent, refines them from their brute state, and fits them for human use and convenience.

Music does have a very special place in my heart. I enjoy it very much. I suppose it is my first love and I do a lot of it. It seems to be when you are making a project it inspires you sometimes to jot down something that you think fits the situation.

I am not aware of any player in the Indian team changing the size of the bat.

People often want the big dramatic works, not the smaller quieter ones, but I don't worry about how it fits together anymore; I just have to do it. I feel compelled to make a work: it's like an itch I have to scratch, and once it's been scratched, it goes away.

Golf's ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the hills and swales, and play the shot at hand - not the last one, or the next one, but the one at your feet, in the poison ivy, where you put it.

My wife is a size zero and eats more than I do, and I'm a 6'4", 225 lb. man!

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.

The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.

I know everything about Ty Cobb except the size of his hat.

Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.

Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.

I used to look at a pint of Haagen-Dazs and call it a serving size.

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times; His fits when he is neither sick nor well, Though no distress be near him but his own Unmanageable thoughts.

Whether or not you could actually increase the size of the force is something that will have to be determined.

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

A TV show where all of the characters are trying to figure out what's going on, and the suspense of that, fits my [voice] really well. You feel their frustration, anger and fear, and then, when the reveal happens, their sense of dread or horror, or whatever it is, and I like to paint with those colors.

Why can't the world be simpler, like it is for guinea pigs? They only have a few rules: Crying will get you attention. If it fits in your mouth, it's food. Scream if you don't get your share.

When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way.

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

Dreams can be any size you want them to be. But the important thing is that you have one that is yours.

It all comes down to perspective. When I get crabby about something, like the delay that was driving me crazy because I told my kids I'd be home for dinner, I have to remind myself where it fits in the scheme of things. We have to say, 'That's life,' which can sometimes be comforting.

No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather.

I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

I was the X-Division champion and competing against guys mostly my size, and I dominated them.