Matchsticks Quotes

• Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.

  Alain de Botton

  Building Up, Wave, Protest

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• I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?"

  Muhammad Ali

  Islamic, Heart, Pockets

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• For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Thinking, Legs, Want

  Lisa Kleypas (2008). “Seduce Me at Sunrise”, p.317, Macmillan

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• Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match. You may live, but you're still an idiot.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Funny, Running, Ideas

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• You don’t get it, do you?" I said. “It’s not a question of ‘what then’. Some people get a kick out of reading railroad timetables and that’s all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out of matchsticks. So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?

  Haruki Murakami

  Reading, People, Guy

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• Atheists blame religion when priests do wrong. Anything can be misused, whether it is nuclear power or a matchstick. So, how can I blame religion? Patriotism too can be misused, by misinforming others and eliminating people, so do we start hating the country?

  Asghar Ali Engineer

  Country, Atheist, Hate

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If any good comes out of the current famine in the Horn of Africa - amidst the pictures of mothers carrying dying babies at their shrivelled breasts and hollow-eyed children with swollen bellies and matchstick limbs - it will be galvanising the world on the need to ensure access to nutritious food for the world's most vulnerable people.

  Josette Sheeran

  Mother, Baby, Children

  "Filling Empty Bellies Is No Longer Enough". Department for International Development blog, dfid.blog.gov.uk. September 20, 2011.

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• Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.

  Dolly Parton

  Teenager, Red, Used

  FaceBook post by Dolly Parton from Jan 26, 2017

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• I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn.

  Gilbert Harding

  Horse, Race, Jockeys

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• In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit prisons, broke up matchsticks and used the fragments as tallies. As I approached the end of my sentences I grew more confident of my powers of memory, and began writing down and memorizing prose-dialogue at first, but then, bit by bit, whole densely written passages. My memory found room for them! It worked. But more and more of my time-in the end as much as one week every month-went into the regular repetition of all I had memorized.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Memories, Writing, Lines

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