Match Quotes - page 24

So it's mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something you're saying is wonderful and you really want to get this point across and prove it to your partner by just throwing it into the tape and letting it speak for itself. (Art Garfunkel)
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. View quote
Louis Aragon
But this would be such a fine match, don't you think? View quote
Mary Robinette Kowal
One of my goals is to have a base near mainland China. I think Hong Kong would be a good match for me. I like being in Hong Kong. View quote
Nicolas Cage
A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone. View quote
Aesop
The public may admire a corporation for its impressive size. Who in the United States doesn't? But when a business, however gigantic, gets smug enough to believe that it is sufficient only to match competition on trivial points instead of leading competition in valid matters, that business is becoming vulnerable to public disfavor. View quote
Raymond Loewy
Match play really exposes your character and how much of a will to win you have in your heart. View quote
Johnny Miller
I hate any match that isn't a traditional Tag Team Match or a traditional Singles Match, because anything can happen. It's truly one of those deals where it's all about being in the right place at the right time. View quote
John Cena
Unquestionably, however, something else is at work, something that cuts deeper into the American psyche. We have a profound hatred of the weak and the poor, and a corresponding groveling terror before the rich and successful, and we're building a bureaucracy to match those feelings. View quote
Matt Taibbi
Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games. View quote
Viswanathan Anand
Each match I approach like a new one. The work is so immense that you don't have time to sit and ponder. (Viswanathan Anand)
Each match I play is the most important one yet. View quote
Viswanathan Anand
I like to keep myself physically and mentally fit before any important match. I usually take a short nap just before the game and do not practice immediately before the tournament. View quote
Viswanathan Anand
In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive. View quote
Viswanathan Anand
The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match. View quote
Will Rogers
A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words. View quote
Confucius
There's no match for the silence of GOD. View quote
Nicole Krauss
To make maps that work, we must depict categories using methods that match the structures of human mental categorization. View quote
Alan MacEachren
When you do 'Before Sunset,' you know while it's a limited audience, there was a very small group of people that love 'Before Sunrise.' You feel a certain pressure to make sure that you uphold a level of quality that has been a bar. You set a bar and you have to at least match it. View quote
Ethan Hawke
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. View quote
William Arthur Ward
We learn our belief systems as very little children, and then we move through life creating experiences to match our beliefs. Look back in your own life and notice how often you have gone through the same experience. (Louise L. Hay)
Pictures of politicians preen across our TV screens, pretensions plaques and posters fill our minds and magazines. Promises a burning match, igniting dreams of straw... View quote
Dawud Wharnsby
The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case. View quote
Bob Barr
There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds? View quote
Thomas Sowell
No artist's masterpiece can match a mother's creation of a successful child, one who has been freed to explore and to grow. ... Success is measured not only by who we are, but by what gifts we give. As the old chief said, "The gift is not complete until it is given again." Ah, the mother whose gift to the world is a person! View quote
Gerry Spence