Quotes About Fixing

#1. I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.

Bobby Bowden

#2. She doesn't even know how to kill things properlike? What kind of girl have you given me to, goddess?" Vic protested, fixing his eye on Nike once more.
Nike let out a laugh. " Vic is a little bloodthirsty. You'll get used to it.

Jennifer Estep

#3. I like fixing things.

Richard E. Grant

#4. There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.

Rahm Emanuel

#5. People are afraid to own their own homes. People are afraid their own government will catch them fixing their houses.

Dave Barry

#6. Jesus Christ can help us fix anything that needs fixing in our lives.

M. Russell Ballard

#7. Beauty was your armor. Fragile stuff, all show. But what's inside you? That's steel. It's brave and unbreakable. And it doesn't need fixing.

Leigh Bardugo

#8. Coach Bryant, before you start hugging me, you ought to know that my boys are fixing to get after y'all's ass,

Pat Dye

#9. The world may need fixing, but it's worth preserving.

Rick Riordan

#10. Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time

Tim Harford

#11. The first year, I didn't have much capital so I did everything myself. I had to keep my overhead low by learning everything about running a business, from accounting to fixing the gears of my equipment. I really started from scratch.

Li Ka-shing

#12. So much has broken today. So many things, I don't know how to begin fixing them all.

A.G. Howard

#13. Without editors planning assignments and copy editors fixing mistakes, reporters quickly deteriorate into underwear guys writing blogs from their den.

George Vecsey

#14. Enjoy the blessings Heaven bestows, Assist his friends, forgive his foes; Trust God, and keep his statutes still, Upright and firm, through good and ill; Thankful for all that God has given, Fixing his firmest hopes on heaven; Knowing that earthly joys decay, But hoping through the darkest day.

Charlotte Bronte

#15. Instead of fixing things, of making changes, of making improvements, all they'e done has been to break them in reverse.

Holly Bodger

#16. In other words, we may, by fixing our attention almost fiercely on the facts actually before us, force them to turn into adventures; force them to give up their meaning and fulfill their mysterious purpose.

G.K. Chesterton

#17. Identifying a problem is the real theorem and fixing it is only a corollary.

Balan Gothandaraman

#18. You're not damaged. But even if you were, I'd spend the rest of my life fixing you. My life isn't mine either,Caitlin. I can't explain it, but since I've met you, I've felt a connection to you so strong that I can't deny it. I don't want to deny it. So my life isn't my own. It's yours.

S.H. Kolee

#19. Regardless of the country it is practised in, most of hospital medicine is painting over the cracks rather than fixing the wall.

Benjamin Daniels

#20. Fixing a hole is far more effective than trying to hide it. That approach is also less stressful than constantly worrying that attackers may find the vulnerabilities.

Gordon Fyodor Lyon

#21. The last jobs I had were fixing cars and covering football games for a local access TV station. As in driving the mobile van to the field, setting up 3 cameras, teaching depressed grownups and interns how to use them and directing the game from the van and then wanting to kill myself.

Louis C.K.

#22. When I'm actually making a film and trying to find solutions, I like to watch making-of documentaries about huge films, like 'Gladiator.' That couldn't be more apart from what I'm doing, but you see Ridley Scott facing huge problems and fixing them.

Philippe Falardeau

#23. It seemed to me that some things were ugly enough that fixing them was worth trespassing.

Brenna Yovanoff

#24. Politicians - in both political parties - spend too much money. And they forget to focus on what matters most: fixing the economic mess they created and putting people back to work.

Brad Wenstrup

#25. The kitchen window groaned open, and Jimi shouted out, "Blue! Your boys are out front, looking like they're fixing to bury a body."
Again? Blue thought.

Maggie Stiefvater

#26. I'm fascinated by lobotomies, the idea of opening up the brain and snipping around a bit and then closing it up again, like fixing a car or something. And the person wakes up and is a little stupid but stupid in a happy, untroubled way.

Peter Cameron

#27. As if fixing the little errors would made the big stuff manageable.

Melissa Marr

#28. You know about fixing cars, you're athletic, and you know when to shut up."
"That last one isn't a skill."
"Honey, trust me. It's a skill.

Simone Elkeles

#29. The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.

Evelyn Underhill

#30. Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#31. We can finish a house, but never a home. Once you fall in love with a house, you find continual pleasures in fixing it up and making innovations that satisfy your creature's comforts.

Alexandra Stoddard

#32. I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I rewrite each of my books five or six times, and each time I change huge portions of the story.

Louis Sachar

#33. Don't try fixing something that is already broken in the first place.

John Robert Go

#34. If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

Malcolm Gladwell

#35. Whether stuck in traffic because of construction or fixing a flat tire after hitting a pothole, Michiganders feel frustrated with the quality of our roads.

Kerry Bentivolio

#36. Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing.

Thomas Carper

#37. When fixing problems, always do the least you can.

Steve Krug

#38. I couldn't be bothered to deal with fixing things. I preferred to wallow in the problem, dream of better days.

Ottessa Moshfegh

#39. He cleared his throat, fixing his eyes on the road. "Why are you looking at me like that?"
All the hard edges within me had shimmered and gone soft.
"You said I was beautiful."
He smirked and settled back in his seat. "I guess I did.

Kristen Simmons

#40. You cannot fix people who will not take feedback, because from their perspective, they do not have a problem.

Henry Cloud

#41. Mainly we obsess on fixing or pacifying the mind. I simply ask you to observe it from a place of neutrality.

Mooji

#42. Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty.

Daido Moriyama

#43. There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

Ida Tarbell

#44. There is no balm of Gilead, No salve, no soothing ointment To stay the pain of one who's had In love a disappointment
Unless it be that healing lotion Of fixing on a new devotion.

Richard Armour

#45. The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.

Jonathan Alter

#46. For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.

Allen Tate

#47. White had learned that going back in time was a way of fixing things; uncovering past traumas, revisiting them and defusing their power.

Helen Macdonald

#48. Long ago I learned that even the most inanimate things we know of - stone, iron columns, copper pipes, gravel roads, a piece of paper - won't last very long without attention and fixing and the loan of additional order. Existence, it seems, is chiefly maintenance. What

Kevin Kelly

#49. I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain," she says. "Not books.

Robin Sloan

#50. I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

Francesca Annis

#51. The benefits provided by worker participation are twofold. Quality is improved because of the finding and fixing of a very large number of problems, but also, and perhaps equally important, moral is improved.

George E.P. Box

#52. You're not perfect, and I'm not perfect, but we're perfect together. It was never about fixing you; it was always about loving you.

Adriane Leigh

#53. I fix what's broken - except in the heart.

Bernard Malamud

#54. I'm not damaged, I don't need fixing. I'm just different. Embrace different

Tina J. Richardson

#55. I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.

Richard Peck

#56. Turns out fixing people up is not how we make money. It's failing to fix people up while still giving them hope that soon we might.

Laurie Frankel

#57. Was this for real? Were these two magically oriented, problem-fixing, ass-kicking guys talking about what their kids would look like?

Chloe Neill

#58. I am here on behalf of all the patients that I have ever met, all the ones I haven't met. This is about letting patients play a more active role ... in fixing health care.

Dave DeBronkart

#59. You're great at fixing things. If anyone could do it, you could. But you can't do this one. You can't fix me. I'm broke.

Lili St. Crow

#60. It's hard to get motivated fixing a compile-time syntax error when you can buy a powder that turns a house into a monster.

Ryan North

#61. The warmth and the soft glow of the tubes also attracted moths, which would fly through ENIAC's innards and cause short circuits. Ever since, the process of fixing computer problems has been known as debugging.

T.R. Reid

#62. And where will that "safety" be? Not a damn clue. Anyway, one problem at a time. Right now I'm fixing the EVA suit. AUDIO

Andy Weir

#63. My roommate is a 240-pound homicidal hermit. For dinner he's fixing me a dead fox he scraped off the highway near Ponchatoula, and after that we're taking a leaky tin boat out on a windy lake to spy on some semi-retarded fishermen. Don't you wish you were here?

Carl Hiaasen

#64. A touching and compassionate yet completely professional account of the psychological
indeed spiritual
dimensions of the doctorDpatient relationship that make the difference between fixing and healing.

Melvin Konner

#65. Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.

Erica Jong

#66. Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.

Hanna Rosin

#67. She fixed things that were broken, and then began fixing things that weren't broken, or broke things so they could be fixed in ways no one understood or found particularly convenient.

Jordan Stratford

#68. As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger.

Ramakrishna

#69. Thank You"
she whispered soft
like it may
blow away
with anything stronger
than a breathe,
"for fixing me."
"You,"
I sputtered out
like the first sound
of morning,
"were never
broken.

Tyler Knott Gregson

#70. Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.

Martin Seligman

#71. Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of important facts.

Alexander Von Humboldt

#72. The manipulation of credit has been the most potent of all methods employed by financiers as a means of controlling commerce and fixing prices.We are all consumers and should all be producers.This credit is a tax upon humanity as if government bonds were issued and people were obliged to pay it.

Charles Lindbergh

#73. Some pieces couldn't be glued back together. Some people weren't for fixing.
Sometimes, the only thing to do was burn the whole fucking world down and start again.

Abigail Haas

#74. The average voter out there understands that the next president is going to have to be prepared to immediately step in without hesitation and end our involvement in Iraq. It's very difficult to figure out how to move on to broader foreign policy concerns without fixing Iraq first.

Joe Biden

#75. Stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!

Eve Ensler

#76. As they say, the first step in fixing something is getting it to break.

Tracy Kidder

#77. The idea of changing and fixing the problem of how news is presented on the Internet has been recognized for a long time.

Ezra Klein

#78. Feeling funny in my mind, Lord I believe I'm fixing to die Well, I don't mind dying But I hate to leave my children crying Well, I look over yonder to that burying ground Look over yonder to that burying ground Sure seems lonesome, Lord, when the sun goes down

Bob Dylan

#79. I think we need a real plan, which is why I have offered a much more specific approach to securing the border, fixing the legal immigration system and addressing illegal immigration.

Carly Fiorina

#80. He stood up, put the tree back under the grow light. 'There. That's what's going to happen to us. It's called grafting. Taking something from one place and fixing it to another until they grow together. We didn't start from the same tree, but we're going to grow together like we did.

Joan Bauer

#81. My father believes not what he sees with his eyes for an entire lifetime, instead he believes what he's told by the plumber on his knees fixing the toilet in the back of the store!" I couldn't stop. He'd been driven crazy by the chance remark of a plumber! "Yeah,

Philip Roth

#82. He came off so lost, which of course hit all my buttons because who doesn't dream of finding an incredibly hot boy and fixing him? Straight guys may have cars and gadgets, but girls and gay boys, we like to fix broken boys.

John Goode

#83. I've heard you talk about this town like it's the only thing you love aside from fixing cars. People go entire lives without figuring out exactly what they want from life. You already have it, and the future you and your dad have planned out for you is going to take it away from you.

Adi Alsaid

#84. Dogs see the bigger picture - everything as a whole, not broken pieces of glass that need fixing. - Madison

Pam Torres

#85. The miraculous power of love to create a context in which people naturally blossom into their highest potential. Neither nagging, trying to get people to change, criticizing or fixing can do that.

Marianne Williamson

#86. It's easy fixing other people's problems. It's my own that can suck it.

Tara Sivec

#87. Nina looked up, her eyes fixing on mine with such ferocity I could almost see the undead vampire in them.
"There is something under here," she said, and I shivered.
"Yeah, we know, dirt nap," Jenks said.
"Rachel already told us.

Kim Harrison

#88. The change we need is fixing this broken economy from the bottom up.. not tax breaks for the wealthy and huge corporations that ship U.S. jobs overseas. We need to focus on defeating al Qaeda and the Taliban and restoring America's standing in the world.. not an unending commitment in Iraq.

Joe Biden

#89. You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold.

Lennart Nilsson

#90. All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to the government of the point at which it will meet with resistance.

Lysander Spooner

#91. Even if it's got a bigger problem, he's an engineer!" Dialing, he added, "Fixing things is his job!

Andy Weir

#92. The more you have, the more you have that needs fixing.

Karl Lehenbauer

#93. [The American people] would rather invest in themselves than listen to a bunch of people in Washington who do not have a record of fixing anything.

Rush Limbaugh

#94. That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

Charlie Chaplin

#95. We come to the realization of the heart that it is time to change when we become addicted to fixing a problem instead of proactively finding solutions.

Molly Friedenfeld

#96. I imagine him grown up and finished with med school, patients lying on the operating table - reaching inside people's rib cages, fixing their broken hearts.

Katie Cotugno

#97. It isn't about winning a game, it about fixing what's broken.

Bob Harper

#98. She had the scattered feeling she always got when events conspired to mess things up, and nothing exhausted and frustrated her more than a mess she was incapable of fixing.

J. Robert Lennon

#99. Or maybe it was survival mode they both lived in, and they didn't dare allow anyone else in because if they were ripped apart a second time there would be no fixing either of them

Christine Feehan

#100. If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him;

Jane Austen