Matt Haig Quotes

At school, I wasn't as interested in mathematics. I did OK, but at the earliest point I could stop doing math, I stopped.

Matt Haig

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• It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Want
  • Problem
  • Complexity

• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Loss
  • Benefit
  • Sovereignty

• It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Long
  • Movie

• He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Happiness
  • He
  • Complaint

• By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Up
  • Years
  • Build

• The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Satisfaction
  • Only
  • Mutual

• The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Life
  • Long
  • My Life

• I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.

  

  Manika
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Journey

• I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Education
  • System
  • Repair

• Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Life
  • Work
  • Birthday

• It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Speak
  • Actor
  • Rare

• By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Fear
  • Adversity
  • Greatest

• Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Waiting

• There are lots of come-from-behind wins, games getting tied in the last period, teams going on to win. That, I think, tells the best story. Whether or not some teams have more grit, better chemistry, or more luck or more skill, it's still within the parameters. I think that makes for great storytelling and great interest for our fans.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Great
  • Best
  • Period

• In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Politics
  • Thankful

• I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.

  

  Earl Browder
  • War
  • Help
  • Free

• There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • Bad

• There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Fear
  • Quality
  • Better

• The problem is that, over time, big pieces of business that have to get done without leadership from Washington, don't get done.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Done
  • Business

• Believe in yourself, Anything is possible no matter who you are, or where you come from. Find your path and stay on it, if you want something bad enough, nothing can stop you.

  

  Eddie Spears
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Stop

• At school, I wasn't as interested in mathematics. I did OK, but at the earliest point I could stop doing math, I stopped.

  

  Matt Haig
  • School
  • Stop
  • Math