Quotes About Fixing What's Broken

#1. You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified.

Barbara Kingsolver

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

Bob Harper

#3. Maybe it wasn't about fixing the broken hearts. Maybe it was about loving the broken pieces the way they were.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#4. We are all broken, but none of us are beyond fixing.

Bella Forrest

#5. You broke her heart in person - you fix it in person!

R.J. Gonzales

#6. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

Abraham Verghese

#7. Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most is the death of imagination and originality and metaphor and passion. Then be bold and LOVE YOUR BODY. STOP FIXING IT. It was never broken.

Marion Woodman

#8. Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.

Barack Obama

#9. The goal of coaching is not in fixing what is broken, but in discovering new talents and new ways to use old talents that lead to far greater effectiveness.

Gifford Pinchot

#10. They thought they were helping me ...
but I didn't need help.
They thought they were fixing me ...
but I wasn't broken.
They thought they were watering me ...
but they were drowning me.

Steve Maraboli

#11. I've always loved fixing broken things.
If something fixed by myself caused a smile, I'd feel saved. In that case it would be worth it. And I was delighted.

Hiro Kiyohara

#12. Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug.

William J. Clinton

#13. A fractured team is just like a broken arm or leg; fixing it is always painful, and sometimes you have to rebreak it to make it heal correctly. And the rebreak hurts a lot more than the initial break, because you have to do it on purpose P.37

Patrick Lencioni

#14. leg in an amputee. Over the centuries, medical treatment had become quite adept at fixing parts of the body that were broken: a shattered bone, or even a shattered mind;

John Burley

#15. I knew myself broken, to burn over every refusal, to feel my blood rise at the slightest provocation, but knowing and fixing are different things.

Mark Lawrence

#16. We're all broken, Claudia, but none of us are beyond fixing.

Bella Forrest

#17. I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

Joichi Ito

#18. We all just live in this giant cycle where we screw things up and hurt people we love, and then we turn around and try to atone for that by fixing other things. And maybe we're all just waiting on our turn for a broken heart and the person who will fix it.

Cora Carmack

#19. Maybe the reason nothing seems to be "fixing you" is because you're not broken. Let today be the day you stop living within the confines of how others define or judge you. You have a unique beauty and purpose; live accordingly.

Steve Maraboli

#20. Whether it's raising the minimum wage, fixing our broken immigration system or supporting an economic climate that gives our businesses that chance to succeed, I hope to continue to fight these important battles on behalf of my constituents.

Joseph P. Kennedy III

#21. The current regulations -- for companies, doctors and researchers -- create perverse incentives; and we'll have better luck fixing those broken systems than we will ever have trying to rid the world of avarice

Ben Goldacre

#22. You are not broken and in need of fixing. You are wounded and in need of healing.

Danu Morrigan

#23. 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

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

A.G. Howard

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

John Robert Go

#26. 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

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

Henry Cloud

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

Bernard Malamud

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

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

Pam Torres

#33. 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

#34. I have become convinced that God thoroughly enjoys fixing and saving things that are broken. That means that no matter how hurt and defeated you feel, no matter how badly you have been damaged, God can repair you. God can give anyone a second chance.

Melody Carlson

#35. I tried to fix her but should have remembered the number one rule about fixing broken people: you always get stuck with their sharp edges.

Charity Ferrell

#36. Reese, your books might not tell you this, so I will. Every heart has two parts, the part that pumps and the part that loves. If you're going to spend your life fixing broken hearts, then learn about both. You can't just fix one with no concern for the other.

Charles Martin

#37. He didn't need someone to fix the problem - there was no fixing it. He needed someone to acknowledge his feelings. Accept his pain. Agree that his heart was broken, and that it should be. And that it might stay broken for a long, long time.

Julie Lawson Timmer

#38. Sometimes that's all it takes. Just one person to turn everything on its head. Remind you of the person you were.

Samantha Towle

#39. Amputate your leg, and attach it to the underside of your wobbly, three-legged chair. Fixing your chair is easy. Ask me how to repair your broken erection.

Jarod Kintz

#40. There was so much filth to clean up; so many broken pieces to fix; so many errors to correct. Every morning she left her house she let out a quiet sigh, as if in one breath she could will away detritus of the previous day.

--Three Daughters of Eve

Elif Shafak

#41. God's been fixing broken people ever since sin came into the world. Give Him time. He's not done. God promises He will work for the good in all things. What happened to you isn't beyond His ability to recover.

Dee Henderson

#42. Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#43. The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].

Tom Duff