Quotes About Suitability

There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.

And you couldn't say, could you, that the touch you had from me was other than the touch of one who could love for life—whether we were suited or not—for life, like a sentence. And now that I consider, the touch that I had from you became not the touch of the long view, but like the tolerant willingness of one who is passing through.

In fashion as in life, the right thing at the right time is the right thing. The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

So in most things men are ready to abuse themselves in thinking the greatest means to be best, when it should be the fittest.

A man with an affectionate disposition, who finds a wife to concur with his fundamental idea of life, easily comes to persuade himself that no other woman would have suited him so well, and does a little daily snapping and quarreling without any sense of alienation.

Like I always say, there's a time and a place for spontaneity.

In the end most things in life—perhaps all things—turn out to be appropriate.

Rolf van der Berg was the right man, in the right place, at the right time; no other combination would have worked. Which, of course, is how much of history is made.

Wherever there is a suitable environment for the fulfilment of Life, it will fulfil itself.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

We are not now concerned with perfection or excellence; we seek only for simple fitness and bare competency.

Choose interests that are compatible with your time and energy constraints.

this young man is quite unsuitable for Ianthe.' 'Ianthe?' he said suddenly realizing who Sophia was talking about. 'What does she want to get married for? Isn't she quite happy as she is in her charming little house?' 'No, that doesn't seem to be enough,' said Sophia. 'We've both had this picture of her which so pleasing and comfortable and all the time she's been wanting something more.

If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.

But i couldn't. Was nowhere near ready for a committed relationship, and it wouldn't be fair. I needed time - to become the right man for a woman like you.

One place suits on person, another place suits another person. For my part, I prefer to live in the country, like Timmy Willie.

Despite a sincere effort, the SEC was not well suited to supervising the investment banks.

I think there are some people in life who are not marriage material and Chris is one of them.

Sometimes she felt bad and confused that she had not gone into politics--which seemed more straightforwardly useful, and which she thought she was probably well suited for, having something of the dictator inside, or something of the dictator's terrible certainty. Her first feeling every morning was shame about all the things wrong in the world that she wasn't trying to fix. p. 17

It's crucial that people are on the right measure at the right time.

It's the right idea, but not the right time.

It is Nature as Woman who says, "Well, bucko, you're good enough for a friend, but my experience of you so far has not indicated the suitability of your genetic material for continued propagation.

As far as Gary Johnson is concerned, he is not a credible person on foreign policy. We need somebody like that. He doesn't understand religious liberty. I have some other concerns about his suitability and reliability in, you know, for the presidency. I just don't think he's a credible option.

God worked in mysterious ways; Lincoln wasn't perfect, but he was perfectly suited to his task. "Taking him for all in all, measuring the tremendous magnitude of the work before him, considering the necessary means to ends, and surveying the end from the beginning, infinite wisdom has seldom sent any man into the world better fitted for his mission than Abraham Lincoln.