Matched Quotes - page 3

One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even something of a clearing house for investigative reporting - where even low-level leaks would be matched with the appropriate journalists to pursue and report on them and, perhaps, even with appropriate NGOs to advocate on their causes. (Evgeny Morozov)
The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in technology start-ups, just as the U.K. government has never matched the vast investment made by the U.S. government. View quote
Geoff Mulgan
Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding. View quote
Irwin Redlener
The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year. View quote
Jeff Miller
It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut. View quote
John L. Phillips
I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing has matched the dread I felt while walking through the Castro, the Village, or Dupont Circle at the height of the AIDS epidemic. View quote
Michael Specter
I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis. View quote
T. Boone Pickens
The dedication of the United States Air Force, Special Forces, and others involved in the mission to tracking down terrorists can not be matched. We express our gratitude to these men and women who defend the freedom America represents. View quote
Tim Murphy
In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference. View quote
Tom Heinsohn
I almost shouldn't be in Limp Bizkit; it's like I got matched in the factory with the wrong band. View quote
Wes Borland
The development of a global economy has not been matched by the development of a global society. (George Soros)
Pure rationality and limited rationality share a common perspective, seeing decisions as based on evaluation of alternatives in terms of their consequences for preferences. This logic of consequences can be contrasted with a logic of appropriateness by which actions are matched to situations by means of rules organized into identities. View quote
James G. March
Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they lead. View quote
Norman Cousins
It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it. View quote
Raymond Chandler
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity. View quote
Seneca
Paul Martin talks eloquently about defending national sovereignty but the reality hasn't matched the rhetoric. When it comes to the United States, Mr. Martin says he calls them as he sees them, but when it comes to American passage through Canada, he doesn't actually see anything. View quote
Stephen Harper
Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers and scientists, and their contests determine the true triumph or defeat of nations. One scholar is matched with another; one creative mind with another; and one judicious temperament with his counterpart. A victory won on that field counts for three won by force of arms. View quote
Cyrano de Bergerac
The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world. View quote
Buzz Aldrin
The greater ease of travel and communication has not been matched by equal understanding and mutual respect. View quote
Jimmy Carter
The ambiguity of progress becomes evident. Without doubt, it offers new possibilities for good, but it also opens up appalling possibilities for evil - possibilities that formerly did not exist. We have all witnessed the way in which progress, in the wrong hands, can become and has indeed become a terrifying progress in evil. If technical progress is not matched by corresponding progress in man's ethical formation, in man's inner growth (cf. Eph 3:16; 2 Cor 4:16), then it is not progress at all, but a threat for man and for the world. View quote
Pope Benedict XVI
If technical progress is not matched by corresponding progress in man's ethical formation, in man's inner growth, then it is not progress at all, but a threat for man and for the world. (Pope Benedict XVI)
Brijmohan Maharaj's Kamdeva matched grace with grace. To the loving he added fear, and a secret knowledge of his fate. Together they devised a poignancy that was memorable and must surely be rare in dance. View quote
Birju Maharaj
Few subsequent gurus seem to have matched the simplicity and directness of Jesus′s message; but it must be remembered that we have very little information. If the world had possessed a detailed biographical account of Jesus, an authentic picture of what he was like as a man, it is quite possible that Christianity would not have been estabished as a world religion. View quote
Anthony Storr
Rose and Dimitri moved almost as one entity, like a matched pair of wolfes or lions, both wary and deadly as they studied their surroundings, taking no detail or person for granted. View quote
Richelle Mead
Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent. View quote
Don DeLillo