Quotes About Matches

#1. This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#2. Giving people like Dodd and Frank more authority is like rewarding an arsonist with gasoline and matches.

Daniel J. Mitchell

#3. My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Bjorn Borg

#4. People say I'm hard, I'm Mr Angry. I'm this, I'm that. I just want to win matches. There's no point going out there and being Mr Nice Guy. We get 55,000 at Old Trafford and I don't think they want fellas going out there and thinking: Ah, if we lose, so what?

Roy Keane

#5. White is pure and simple and matches with everything.

Christian Dior

#6. He loves you, really he does. He'd love you even if it destroyed him. He matches you.

Marie Lu

#7. I don't have to ask you where you've been, cause the matches in your purse say Holiday Inn.

Coolio

#8. The truth, when it matches with what we want, think, or believe already, we love it. But, when it doesn't, we either hate it or ignore it, or both.

Auliq Ice

#9. The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches ...

Euripides

#10. While his decision to break into the derelict station hadn't been on a whim like most things in his life, Rob had come unprepared. He had no torch, no matches. All he had was faith, and that wasn't much to go on.

Chris Ward

#11. I love Israel for its blue and white flag as it matches my legs.

Joan Rivers

#12. When you struggle winning matches all year and you don't really get into a groove or rhythm, you just can't expect to just come in here and have it click.

Pete Sampras

#13. I've played in a lot of big matches and you learn from them.

Li Na

#14. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

Haruki Murakami

#15. I don't know a lot about the Scots, but I'm aware they have beaten some of the English counties in the NCL and have gone close in other matches,

Justin Langer

#16. She flicks her words like lit matches. They drop delicately, burning.

Kate Tempest

#17. If I can break one out of every three return games, I'm going to give myself a shot in a lot of matches.

Andy Roddick

#18. Three matches one by one struck in the night
The first to see your face in its entirety
The second to see your eyes
The last to see your mouth
And the darkness all around to remind me of all these
As I hold you in my arms.

Jacques Prevert

#19. It's just unreal, I'm shocked myself. I've played good matches here, but never really almost destroyed somebody.

Roger Federer

#20. Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.

Maria Sharapova

#21. I'm a strong believer that if you score goals, you win matches.

Charlie Nicholas

#22. It doesn't match anything you have."

Exactly, I think. This bracelet matches nothing in my wardrobe . . . Nothing in my life. The bracelet isn't anything like who I am; it's a bracelet for who I want to be.

Carolina on p. 189 of HOUR OF THE BEES by Lindsay Eagar

Lindsay Eagar

#23. Of all mad matches never was the like
Being mad herself, she's madly mated.

William Shakespeare

#24. The egoist feels lonely, surrounded by threatening and alien events; all his desires are sunk in his own concerns. A kind person lives in a world of beneficent events, whose goodness matches his own. - ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Leo Tolstoy

#25. We do not become satisfied by leading a peaceful and prosperous existence. Rather, we become satisfied when reality matches our expectations. The bad news is that as conditions improve, expectations balloon.

Yuval Noah Harari

#26. 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

#27. The deaths, well, they did stack up, one after another. Kind of hard not to take them personally. Did I blame myself? Hell to the no. Did it piss me off and make me want to douse the entire compound in gasoline and start throwing matches? Hell yes.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#28. You should be able to have good matches against anybody.

Charlie Haas

#29. A profession that completely matches your talent, aspirations and skills is the best profession you can choose.

Eraldo Banovac

#30. There was some kind of passion between them. It gave off a faint wrong smoky odor, like something burning where it shouldn't be, arson committed by children playing with matches. I

Ross Macdonald

#31. The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.

Boris Becker

#32. You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it done.

David Allen

#33. Offer a vibration that matches your desire rather than offering a vibration that keeps matching what-is.

Esther Hicks

#34. The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through warmth.

Stephen Covey

#35. It seems good enough; parts seem very good indeed. She has lavish hopes, of course - she wants this to be her best book, the one that finally matches her expectations.

Michael Cunningham

#36. It's a drag having to wear socks during matches, because the tan, like, stops at the ankles. I can never get my skin, like, color coordinated.

Monica Seles

#37. I still think I have the speed and the variations also to win the matches, but its very good competition and also a great challenge for me too.

Martina Hingis

#38. The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.

Alan Lewis

#39. The only way to get back the confidence is to play and win matches. You can practise as much as you like, but you need confidence that comes from playing and winning matches.

Greg Rusedski

#40. You've just got to get over that mental hurdle and those battles in your own head during matches when things aren't going so well. It takes time. It's probably all things I already knew, but for someone to talk about it maybe in a different way makes you realise things.

Samantha Stosur

#41. You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.

Andy Warhol

#42. I'd been involved in journalism for a long time - my dad's a journalist, he's written many books, and when I was twelve years old I wrote reports on local football matches for the newspapers.

Colum McCann

#43. Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would have been for me if I had set myself to making matches in my youth. I should not be in such distress of mind.

Michelangelo

#44. If you know a lot about something and apply that information to a vote that matches your policy preferences, your opinion quality is high.

Jill Lepore

#45. I feel very privileged to be asked to be featured in another FIFA Soccer release, ... The game gives me the opportunity to play the matches I want to play every day of the week
even while away from the field.

Ronaldinho

#46. The information was kept hidden for the same reason we keep matches from children. In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination ... but in the wrong hands, fire can be highly destructive.

Dan Brown

#47. If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper.

Lynn Johnston

#48. Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.

Adam Johnson

#49. A flow of a brook matches life, a swift brook at times splashes life,demeanour of mine is to be with life,
what a dilemma it's nothing but life.

Deepika Chamoli

#50. You might be adding a new scar to your collection, but it kind of matches the one on this side of your mouth, so at least they'll be symmetrical."
"I don't mind the scars." He shrugged, his eyes taking on a mischievous spark. "They hold better memories now than they used to.

Marissa Meyer

#51. One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

Don DeLillo

#52. Why on earth would you buy a car like this if you can't drive a stick? There are dozens of cars
new cars
that have automatic transmission. It'd be a million times easier."
Adrian shrugged. "I like the color. It matches my living room.

Richelle Mead

#53. Soccer matches in Europe have riot police. Metal is just people sloshing around drunk and sloppy and having fun, and there's nothing wrong with that. It is a great outlet for aggression.

Chris Reifert

#54. I never would have guessed that matches and lighters would be among the things I'd miss the most if civilization collapsed

Mike Mullin

#55. Most of the matchbooks and little boxes were made of paper, and even if the matches dried out, the containers were split, torn, and shriveled. The damp cardboard dripped with water, discolored and broken.

Penelope Douglas

#56. I have entered the sports equipment business with 'Bhajji Sports.' I am applying for ICC clearance so that cricket bats with 'Bhajji Sports' logos could be used for international matches. In domestic circuit, the Punjab team is already wearing Bhajji Sports dresses for the Ranji Trophy matches.

Harbhajan Singh

#57. A fragrance that matches the personality of the man or woman who wears it is an integral part of the memory that you have of him or her. It goes without saying that it's a formidable weapon of seduction.

Dree Hemingway

#58. But there's a school of thought that says if you're going to go down in flames anyway, you might as well be the one lighting the matches.

Timothy Zahn

#59. Playing black, I put great stake in the Ruy Lopez: I liked it, feel it, and understand it; in matches with Hjartarson and Timman it served me well. - on preparing for World Championship versus Garry Kasparov

Anatoly Karpov

#60. Give your employees a mission that matches their ambitions. When you challenge people, they surprise you.

Richard Branson

#61. Nobody says if you hit No. 2 in the world you have to win all your matches.

Li Na

#62. Why do you have your gun out?" she whispers, following right behind me. "Always be prepared," I tell her as we step inside. I close the door behind me, locking the deadbolt and the top lock. "Boy Scout motto, isn't it?" "Yes, but when they go camping, they bring extra matches. Not firearms.

Karina Halle

#63. "There is no greater gift to an insecure leader that quite matches a vague enemy who can be used to whip up fear and hatred among the population."

Paul Rusesabagina

#64. Experience tells us that few matches are won on the back of one or two good sessions of play. To win a Test match most teams have to win and outplay the opposition for extended periods of time.

Justin Langer

#65. From the corners of her mouth, thick yellow goo bubbles. It matches the mess between Vesper's fingers, the slime on her chin, on her legs, the blobs that randomly pepper things, the blast radius massive, confounding

Peter Newman

#66. The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner.

Stephen Jay Gould

#67. Conservatives are fond of telling us what a wonderful, happy, prosperous nation this is. The only thing that matches their love of country is the remarkable indifference they show toward the people who live in it.

Michael Parenti

#68. I want to look at someone and know that every need and wish and desire i have matches his, not that my every need and wish and desire clashes with his. Unification should be the overall theme of a relationship.

Sara Raasch

#69. Recognizing Nothing as one's true nature, following the guidance of our conscience - having a clear distinction between absolute and relative values, and using the Earth as the external absolute scale that matches the internal absolute truthfulness.

Ilchi Lee

#70. Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities,

Artur Davis

#71. There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.

Will Rogers

#72. I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

Pete Sampras

#73. Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.

John B. S. Haldane

#74. The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.

William Faulkner

#75. But I still serve pretty big and that's one of my biggest weapons, so if my shoulder holds up and I can count on it, I can win a few matches and then you never know how the other guys are going to react to the fatigue and the length of the matches.

Guy Forget

#76. Father's silence is not merely the absence of sound. It's a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It pinches you small as a grain of rice. It twists in your gut like a worm.
Silence clawed at my throat. It left a taste of burnt matches.

Franny Billingsley

#77. 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

#78. A woman in love respects and raises up her man. She is his constant source of support. She matches his heart and passions with her own. She sees the very best in him, even when he does not. She is his foundation; what he returns home to.

Elizabeth Bourgeret

#79. You don't have to,' I say. 'You are normal. You have a job with tenure. You have Lucia and this house.' I cannot say the rest that I think, that he is easy in his body, that he sees and hears and tastes and feels what others do, so his reality matches theirs.

Elizabeth Moon

#80. The trouble is you can't play many matches when you lose them.

Jelena Dokic

#81. The philosophy of a lot of European teams, even in home matches, is not to give a goal away.

Alex Ferguson

#82. The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.

Gary Lineker

#83. It's like a movie, I thought, like a fucking movie. It seemed funny to me. It felt as if we were on camera. I liked it. It was better than the racetrack, it was better than the boxing matches. We kept drinking.

Charles Bukowski

#84. My grandfather was a healer, and he used matches often. Once, he burnt a wart off my finger and then rubbed the ash deep into it, and it never did come back. When he worked at a factory, people would line up next to his truck to be healed. He died before he could teach us any of his secrets.

Shea Hembrey

#85. I never cut for matches, I cut for impact.

Sam O'Steen

#86. For toddlers I suggest leaving their mittens on year-round, indoors and out. That way they can't get into aspirin bottles, liquor cabinets, or boxes of kitchen matches.

P. J. O'Rourke

#87. On the front cover of Newsweek reviews "A House for Mr. Biswas" as "a marvelous prose epic that matches the best 19th century novels for richness of comic insight and final, tragic power.

V.S. Naipaul

#88. This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.

Otto Von Bismarck

#89. I think that his [Kurt Vonnegut's] appeal, though, will always be chiefly to adolescents. His sense of the world matches that of young people, who feel deeply life's absurdity.

Michael Dirda

#90. You know when I say that things happen in matches? Well, it just happened there.

Ron Atkinson

#91. But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.

Marat Safin

#92. The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by the light of matches which keep blowing out.

Gilbert Highet

#93. When the music created by the sounds and ordering of the words matches the thrust of the meanings of the words, then a radiant state of awareness can occur.

Pattiann Rogers

#94. The coach should keep out of the way ... He is an important figure, of course, but is more likely to lose a match than win it. Matches are won by players.

Romario

#95. When I was 17, I listened to reggae music. I loved Bob Marley. I started growing dreadlocks. It's always been my way, that the outside matches what's going on with me inside.

Matisyahu

#96. The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my ranking. I think I can hit the ball. It's just about my body cooperating. It's about being able to play matches in a row. Right now, I'm not sure how much I can do with that, but we'll see.

Venus Williams

#97. When Arthur had been a boy at school, long before the Earth had been demolished, he had used to play football. He had not been at all good at it, and his particular speciality had been scoring own goals in important matches.

Douglas Adams

#98. Nature doesn't see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. That's the beautiful simplicity of evolution. It matches design to environment.

Blake Crouch

#99. I'm not sure whether or not any love matches are made in heaven, but some do suggest heaven had a hand in the introductions.

Josephine Humphreys

#100. My mom is a big sports fans. Basketball, football, baseball, whatever. She calls into sports radio shows and gets into shouting matches, that's how intense she is about it.

Chris Hardwick