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The scale of the ISIS threat is not yet matched by a clarity of approach for securing their defeat. -- Douglas Alexander
The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
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. -- T. Boone Pickens
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. -- Buzz Aldrin
When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused. -- Bashar al-Assad
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
We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and we're just in a little different altitude. -- Linda M. Godwin
I went through this phase where I thought pink and purple matched. To dance class, I'd wear purple tights and pink leg warmers and paint my shoes purple. It was really odd. -- Carrie Ann Inaba
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
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. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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. -- Irwin Redlener
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. -- Tim Murphy
We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power. -- Barbara Deming
I'm a dark blonde, yes. I dyed my hair blue, then black, when I was 14. I thought the colour was more flattering and matched my skin tone. I don't think I'd ever change back unless it was for a film. -- Eva Green
I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Americans like to get rich fast. That this means we go broke fast, too, is something that we have become very good at forgetting. Our ignorance of history is matched only by our unfailing optimism; it's actually part of our optimism. -- Jill Lepore
My colleagues, while it is good that the Nation is finally focused on the critical issue of securing our ports, our rhetoric and our passion about Dubai must be matched by the funding necessary to keep our ports and our citizens safe. -- Allyson Schwartz
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. -- Geoff Mulgan
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. -- Michael Specter
The first voyagers to the stars will be creatures whose life cycle is matched to the voyage: the aeons involved in traversing the galaxy are not daunting to immortal beings. By the end of the third millennium, travel to other stars could be technically feasible. But would there be sufficient motive? -- Martin Rees
But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision. -- Warwick Davis
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
On the New York Stock Exchange, all buy and sell orders are routed through a single 'specialist,' guaranteeing that most small trades can be matched directly. But most larger trades are delivered to the specialist on the floor of the exchange by human brokers, a system that big investors view as increasingly inefficient. -- Alex Berenson
If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend. -- Daniel Dennett
Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death. -- Chris Pine
This was 1978, when flying was still an occasion, a special grand event that took planning and care. I worked as a TWA flight attendant then. I stood in my Ralph Lauren uniform at the boarding door and smiled at the passengers through lips coated with lipstick that perfectly matched the stripe on my jacket. Mostly, the passengers smiled back. -- Ann Hood
Because our lies matched. It was a sign. -- Jay Asher
Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled. -- Henry Ward Beecher
His lies matched my wooden furniture, they were both highly polished -- Charmaine J. Forde
I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged. -- Elsa Peretti
People tend to pair off that way, Cath thought, in matched sets. -- Rainbow Rowell
The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it. -- Don DeLillo
My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics. -- Jack Kemp
Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence. -- Matthew Syed
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity. -- Seneca the Younger
Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within. -- Dawson Trotman
I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged. Style is to be simple. -- Elsa Peretti
we are two like-minded creatures too well-matched, both equal halves of a whole not altogether wholesome -- Beatriz Fitzgerald Fernandez
Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within." -- Dawson Trotman
It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut. -- John L. Phillips
The depth of concern people feel about UKIP is not always matched by depth of understanding. -- Douglas Alexander
Persistent, internal inklings matched by external confirmation is often the way God directs believers into His will. -- Priscilla Shirer
The architecture of war and violence is now matched by a barrage of goods parading as fashion. -- Henry Giroux
The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors. -- Jimmy Carter
Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Flow occurs in your life when your highest skills are matched to challenges that quite exactly meet them. -- Martin Seligman
The Rosenberg case had been orchestrated to an anti-Communist frenzy that matched the exuberant hysteria of the Nazi horror. -- Howard Fast
Romney-Ryan is likely the best matched 'team' that has been on a national ticket in a very long time. -- Bob Beauprez
When I was fourteen, I was one of those kids who wore all black because it matched everything. Seriously. -- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
I almost shouldn't be in Limp Bizkit; it's like I got matched in the factory with the wrong band. -- Wes Borland
I almost shouldnt be in Limp Bizkit, its like I got matched in the factory with the wrong band. -- Wes Borland
No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth. -- Horace Mann
The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year. -- Jeff Miller
You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself. -- Ben Aaronovitch
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
Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent. -- Don DeLillo
The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position. -- Ernestine Rose
It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation. -- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well matched they are as body and soul, living partners. -- Andre Simon
I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched. -- Gary Ross
Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women. -- Warren Farrell
Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required. -- Hannah Arendt
In the moments I get it right, every step I take seems to be matched by a universal mystery, which obligingly, incredibly, creates what I can't. -- Martha Beck
All warfare is based on deception. If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight and if not: split and re-evaluate. -- Sun Tzu
I have some favorites. I love Chaplin; I mean I really love Chaplin. I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched. -- Gary Ross
These displays made it clear that the truly dedicated homemaker matched her comforter to her pillow shams to her washcloths to her bedskirt to her toothbrush holder. -- Christina Bartolomeo
Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars. -- Carl Sandburg
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. -- Norman Cousins
As long as there are big corporations, there will be big unions. The economic power of big business will be matched by the economic power of the big unions. -- Margaret Chase Smith
How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place? I read his mind. I matched his DNA. I smelled him. I also did that. -- Joss Whedon
As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre. -- Athol Fugard
Hollywood's schizophrenia over guns is matched only by their attitude toward taxes. Ever wonder why they film in Vancouver so often? It ain't for the beaches, I can tell you. -- Greg Gutfeld
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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
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
You thought since we were the ones left over we'd magically become a couple? How storybook--three sets of perfectly matched couples, right? Like that ever happens. This isn't some romance novel. -- Alice Clayton
The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did. -- Robert Browning
The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves. -- Marcel Proust
The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images. -- Theodor Adorno
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. -- Richelle Mead
He once had lips as cold as stone and a heart that equally matched, but I had managed to warm him up and now all I could sense was his need for me. -- Jason Lloyd
I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty. -- Jack Johnson
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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. -- Raymond Chandler
Everyone everywhere live[s] a confused, bitter search. Reality never matched their dreams; happiness was just around the corner - a corner they never turned. And the source of it all [is] the human mind. -- Dan Millman
There are secret ties, there are sympathies, by the sweet relationship of which souls that are well matched attach themselves to each other, and are affected by I know not what, which cannot be explained -- Pierre Corneille
The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen. -- Charles E. McKenzie

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