Top 25 Box Of Matches Quotes
#1. It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.
David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
#2. Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves
Laura Esquivel
#3. The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a box of matches in the other, pretending to sell fire insurance.
Rodrigue Tremblay
#4. You keep thinking that you'll never get burned, I just found me a brand new box of matches.
Nancy Sinatra
#5. She saw him drenched with gasoline. She could actually feel the box of matches in her hand.
Stieg Larsson
#6. Without inspiration, we're all like a box of matches that will never be lit.
David Archuleta
#7. Perhaps, she thought, that's what love does. It's not there to make you feel special. It's to make you brave. It was like a ration pack in the desert, she thought, like a box of matches in a dark wood. Love and courage, thought Sophie - two words for the same thing.
Katherine Rundell
#8. A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches
Jeff Lindsay
#10. For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.
Joan Miro
#11. It is good that you ruined your face, because it brought you to me, but also because beautiful women rarely work strong magic.
Catherynne M Valente
#12. Not one word to stop me from doing something I shouldn't?
'No. By doing what you shouldn't, you will realize it yourself. As I said in the restaurant, the light in your soul is greater than the darkness. But for this you must go all the way to the end of the game.
Paulo Coelho
#13. Be committed to the relationship you have with yourself. We get so committed to other relationships, but often sort of toss ourselves away. We get around to ourselves only now and then. So, really care for who you are. Be committed to loving yourself. Take care of your heart and soul.
Louise Hay
#14. Life Is to short to read book I am not enjoying
Melissa Marr
#15. And I have mastered the speed and strength which is the
armor of the world.
Frank O'Hara
#16. To bring peace in this world, you have to be peaceful with yourself.
Debasish Mridha
#17. I was attracted to the strangeness of his mind as a psychiatrist might have been drawn to an interesting case. he wanted a resident analyst. Neither of us understood.
Elizabeth Harrower
#18. Cassie: What would it cost me if I kissed him? What would it cost me if I didn't?
Melanie Cusick-Jones
#19. Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.
George Eliot
#20. The matches also came into focus: a cheap, bright label, in French. I picked up the box, slid it open, my nose stung by the smell of sulphur. Four matches. I took one, scraped it into life, held it to the oil lamp. A spot of warmth entered the room.
Laurie R. King
#21. The way I grew up, everyone knew how to cook, sew ... carpentry.
Shea Hembrey
#22. My tats were but temporal attempts to heal my soul, as my heart remained an open wound.
S.R. Grey
#23. I remember thinking, 'I don't know if I can do radio.' I never even listen to it.
Rosie O'Donnell
#24. I despair at the thought that my life might slip by without God showing Himself mighty in my life.
Jim Cymbala
#25. It's sort of scary to work with your parents when you're in the same business. But there was something so very safe about that. Acting with her was just like working with a wonderful actress who just happens to be my best friend and also my mother.
Lily Rabe