Overmatched Quotes

#1. the Christian who seems to be so overmatched, is yet so unconquerable, II Cor. 12:9; James 5:11.

William Gurnall

#2. Every time we pretend to know something, we are doing the same: protecting our own reputation rather than promoting the collective good. None of us want to look stupid, or at least overmatched, by admitting we don't know an answer.

Steven D. Levitt

#3. I haven't seen someone so overmatched since Mike Tyson tried to recite the alphabet.

Dennis Miller

#4. Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.

Henry Ward Beecher

#5. Sampson wanted to be "a seven-foot-four guard." He was too pretty to be a soldier. Against the profoundly overmatched Chaminade, he took just nine shots and let his unbeatable team lose to a bunch of beach bum nobodies. He was the greatest, but he wasn't that great.

Chuck Klosterman

#6. Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear.

Philip Sidney

#7. Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.

Benjamin Franklin

#8. When you struggle, you're going to be a little discouraged. But I never felt like I was overmatched.

Buster Posey

#9. Liberation of mind is realising that we don't need to buy any story at all. It's realising that before our confused thought, there actually is Reality. We can see it. All we have to do it to fully engage in this moment as it has come to be.

Steve Hagen

#10. In spite of her desire for a contained universe, her life felt scattered, full of many small moments, without great purpose. That is what she thought, though what is most untrustworthy about our natures and self-worth is how we differe in our own realities from the way we are seen by others.

Michael Ondaatje

#11. Science is made up of so many things that appear obvious after they are explained.

Frank Herbert

#12. I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.

Martin Short

#13. Love and be loved. Settle for no less. Ask for no more.

Truth Devour

#14. But sometimes the scars go too deep and the stories are too personal to share.

John Northcutt Young

#15. Now the Tombs, like the name says, are so horrible that they had to close it down. Today it doesn't exist and people go in the electric chair and all that.

Gregory Corso