Quotes with match

  • When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

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  • Muhammad Ali 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
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • William Faulkner 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.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Everett M. Dirksen The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
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  • Ben Gibbard A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don't feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.
    The Meaning Of Life
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Charles Dickens A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bill Bryson And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg As a professional wrestler, it's not my position to be the booker, to formulate a match, unless you're asked to do that.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Sam Walter Foss 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.
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  • Bubba Smith Everything has gotten vulgar and out of line for children to watch. It's more of a swearing match.
    Bubba Smith
    American professional football player (1945 - )
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  • Arthur Miller I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Camille Paglia In high school in the early Sixties, I dreamed of intellectual work by women that would match the highest male standards and set men on their ear. A lot of women have done a lot of academic work since then, but most of them fall short of that standard.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bjorn Borg 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
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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  • John McCain Never get into a wrestling match with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.
    John McCain
    American politician (1936 - 2018)
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  • James Baldwin No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • C. Robert Kehler Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt and long-term damage and their strategic impact.
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  • Brock Lesnar One match that really sticks out for me, there's a bunch of matches with all the guys that I worked with. For me, when I got in the ring, I approached it as being real because I was a real character. I didn't have a gimmick name; I didn't have a gimmick finish.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Caleb Deschanel Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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  • Robert Hayden Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.
    Robert Hayden
    American poet, essayist, and educator (1913 - 1980)
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  • Brendan Behan The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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