Match Quotes

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men. (George Eliot)
I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match. View quote
Arthur Miller
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around. View quote
Boris Johnson
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. View quote
Emo Philips
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. View quote
William Faulkner
In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn. View quote
Robert Sternberg
Honor is like a match, you can only use it once. View quote
Marcel Pagnol
I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past. View quote
Mario Lemieux
You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face. View quote
Daisy Ashford
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. (Muhammad Ali)
I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?". View quote
Muhammad Ali
Words that do not match deeds are unimportant. View quote
Che Guevara
Bring me men to match my mountains, Bring me men to match my plains, Men with empires in their purpose, And new eras in their brains. View quote
Sam Walter Foss
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look. View quote
Martha Beck
You can't blame a match for a house made of straw. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
Well, the memories were obviously - every match is important, every point counts, especially the last sort of 18, 20 years when the matches have been so tight. View quote
Bernhard Langer
I have found a flat on Merseyside and am settling down here. If I can keep playing and get back to full match fitness, I know I have a lot to offer still. View quote
David Ginola
You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet. View quote
Gerry Mulligan
But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing. (Parminder Nagra)
When we got knocked out against Porto in the Champions League, I only slept two hours that night. I was not a nice person to be with after that match. I was struggling to get the result out of my system. View quote
Ruud van Nistelrooy
Every day I work my guts out in training, every match I play my heart out. View quote
Ruud van Nistelrooy
But then one day the Lord put us together through our agent and it's been a wonderful match. View quote
Tim LaHaye
If two New Hampshiremen aren't a match for the devil, we might as well give the country back to the Indians. View quote
Stephen Vincent Benét