Match Quotes - page 23

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons. (John Irving)
War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal. View quote
Dennis Kucinich
The supposition that the world is ever in league to put a man down is childish. Hardly less childish is it for an author to lay the blame on reviewers. A good sturdy author is a match for a hundred reviewers. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to do good. You have to force your will upon someone, but dancing you don't have to force your will. It should be a lot easier because if I make a mistake I don't get hit. View quote
Evander Holyfield
Mantua, the home of the Muses, raised to the skies by immortal verse, and a match for the lyre of Homer. View quote
Silius Italicus
Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product. View quote
Elon Musk
"AS GOD AS MY WITNESS, HE IS BROKEN IN HALF!" (most famously uttered during the Undertaker vs Mankind match at King of the Ring 1998) View quote
Jim Ross
To most people in the U.K., indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is - in many respects - a valid one. Superpower rivalry during the Cold War ramped up U.S. and Soviet space efforts to a scale that Western Europe had no motive to match. View quote
Martin Rees
I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me. View quote
Whitney Houston
The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people. View quote
Kailash Satyarthi
I hadn't heard his remixes and didn't know how amazing a drummer Travis is. But we got together, I threw on James Brown's 'Funky Drummer,' one of the most sampled beats in hip-hop, and 'I Know You Got Soul' by Bobby Byrd. His face would just open up; he would match the beat perfectly. I thought, 'Damn, this is fun.' It's like a skeleton you get to put the clothes on. And once the clothes are on, you yank out the spine. (Adam Goldstein)
Plan-less profit-seeking as practiced by the West cannot match the planned export policies of the East. View quote
Stanley Knowles
It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match. View quote
Isaac Asimov
We were brought up watching opening batsmen score nine before lunch. If Geoffrey Boycott flashed at a ball outside off stump in the first over of a Test match, questions were asked in Parliament. If he flashed at two, the ravens abandoned the Tower of London. View quote
Geoff Boycott
I think we all connect with dogs the most because they're pack animals. I know that cats are a little bit too aloof for me, although I wouldn't totally object to bringing one into our pack if I could find the right match that would get along with my dogs. View quote
Cesar Millan
I feel too much. That's what's going on." "Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel the wrong ways? "My insides don't match up with my outsides." "Do anyone's inside and outsides match up?" "I don't know. I'm only me." "Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside." "But it's worse for me." "I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him." "Probably. But it really is worse for me. View quote
Jonathan Safran Foer
My insides don't match up with my outsides." "Do anyone's inside and outsides match up?" "I don't know. I'm only me." "Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside. View quote
Jonathan Safran Foer
There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different courses that they were taking, and see what other courses would be correlated with the courses they are taking. View quote
Mark Zuckerberg
My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match. View quote
Arlen Specter
Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart. View quote
Lloyd Alexander
In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius. (Walter Bagehot)
Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins. View quote
Mitch Albom
When in love, the sight of the beloved has a completeness which no words and no embrace can match: a completeness which only the act of making love can temporarily accommodate. View quote
John Berger
The vagabond who's rapping at your door, Is standing in the clothes that you once wore, Strike another match, go start anew! And it's all over now, Baby Blue. View quote
Bob Dylan
There's beauty in the silver singing river, There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky, But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty, That I remember in my true love's eyes. View quote
Bob Dylan