Matched Quotes

• It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

  Ally Condie

  Past, Waiting, Pieces

  Ally Condie (2014). “Atlantia”, p.189, Penguin

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• Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.

  Ally Condie

  Life, Giving, Minutes

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.47, Penguin

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• He would not let her go. Even though, staring into her open eyes in the swirling salt-filled water, with sun flashing though each wave, he thought he would like this moment to be forever: the dark-haired woman on shore calling for their safety, the girl who had once jumped rope like a queen, now holding him with a fierceness that matched the power of the ocean—oh, insane, ludicrous, unknowable world! Look how she wanted to live, look how she wanted to hold on.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Girl, Queens, Ocean

  Elizabeth Strout (2008). “Olive Kitteridge: Fiction”, p.47, Random House

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• Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.

  Ally Condie

  Want Something, Want, Things Change

  Ally Condie (2010). “Matched”, p.202, Penguin UK

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• Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?

  Ally Condie

  Life, Night, Way

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.12, Penguin

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• Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by the reader's pleasure in unlocking and revealing these secrets.

  Diane Wakoski

  Secret, Unlocking, Way

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• This was not some pretty little girl, coyly flirtatious, delicately stimulated. This was the mature female of the species, vivid, handsome and strong demanding that all the life within her be matched. Her instinct would detect any hedging, any dishonesty, any less than complete response to her - and then she would be gone for good.

  John D. MacDonald

  Girl, Strong, Hedging

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• Do not go gentle into that good night.

  Dylan Thomas

  Tattoo, Good Night, Goodnight

  "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" l. 16 (1952)

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• Everything I dream is something simple and plain and everyday. That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have

  Ally Condie

  Dream, Simple, Everyday Things

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.159, Penguin

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• I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.

  Ally Condie

  Strength, Wonder, Ifs

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.113, Penguin

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• Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?

  Ally Condie

  Falling In Love, Stories, Persons

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.122, Penguin

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• So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way in your brain. Before they meant something specific, they had a shape and a way of being said. And now, yes, gloom and broom are floating fifty miles away from each other in you mind because they refer to different notions, but they're cheek-by-jowl as far as your tongue is concerned. And that's what a poem does. Poems match sounds up the way you matched them when you were a tiny kid, using that detachable front phoneme.

  Nicholson Baker

  Kids, Curves, Brain

  Nicholson Baker (2009). “The Anthologist: A Novel”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• This book is dedicated to the people of America--strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and brave, with a passion for justice no nation has ever matched.

  Paul Johnson

  Strong, Book, Passion

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• You don't appreciate home until you leave it and, let me tell you, you can't appreciate life till you've almost left it! Some people hope and die with their song still in them. I used to think that happiness resulted when my earnings matched my yearnings! But not anymore!

  Patsy Cline

  Song, Home, Thinking

  "Patsy Cline". Book by Ellis Nassour, 1981.

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• I almost shouldnt be in Limp Bizkit, its like I got matched in the factory with the wrong band.

  Wes Borland

  Band, Factories, Limp Bizkit

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• To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers.

  Henrietta Szold

  Lying, Views, Heritage

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• Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within.

  Dawson Trotman

  Discipline, Desire, Defeat

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• It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as ours to meet and to be matched together, that I hardly know how to tell you what happiness it gives me to know you.

  Hector Berlioz

  Friendship, Heart, Character

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• It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.

  Kim Stanley

  Mistake, Political, Mind

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• There is a connection between environment and stress on both ends, with excessive clutter and excessive attention to detail both holding the power to distract us from our ability to love fully, work productively and relax effectively. So, what makes sense to me is for each of us to think this through on a few fronts: what constitutes a comfortable environment for us, how much effort we're willing to put into it relative to other priorities, and how well-matched we need our partners' preferences to be to ours.

  Carolyn Hax

  Stress, Thinking, Priorities

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Sight, Evil

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Roberto Clemente played the game of baseball with great passion. That passion could only be matched by his unrelenting commitment to make a difference in the lives of the less fortunate and those in need. People saw Roberto as a great ballplayer and humanitarian. He was also a great father, husband, teammate and friend.

  Manny Sanguillen

  Baseball, Husband, Father

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• Persistent, internal inklings matched by external confirmation is often the way God directs believers into His will.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Way, Confirmation, Persistent

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• 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.

  Stephen Harper

  Reality, United States, Canada

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• The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy.

  David Lehman

  Song, Humorous, Passion

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