Quotes About Fixing

#1. And I specialize in fixing things up and restoring them to their former glory.
She wondered if that talent extended to humans, maybe even humans who never really had a former glory.

Jill Shalvis

#2. 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

#3. So many times I've wanted to crack up, standing there stiff while seven women are crawling round my toes fixing hems and the designer's having a freak-out because the denim cuffs are crooked. I'm on the verge of hysteria.

Helena Christensen

#4. you may fall into error by fixing your minds so much upon the faith which is the channel of salvation as to forget the grace which is the fountain and source even of faith itself. Faith is the work of God's grace in us.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#5. Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.

Andrew Solomon

#6. I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It has to be true for me to say it.

Alison Krauss

#7. I wanted to become an actor and I knew that if I was really going to do it, I needed the training. I was not one of those people that was like, "I got it." I was like, "No, I don't have it yet. I need work. I need help fixing myself."

Condola Rashad

#8. Fixing your heartbreak by getting into another relationship is not the way to live your life - you need to live it on your terms for a while.

Taylor Swift

#9. She stood, moved to stand in front of him, and held out her hand. "Thanks so much for fixing my hip and helping me."
He lifted a brow as he glanced from her hand to her face. "Sit down. You're not going anywhere.

Lia Davis

#10. Don't confuse me with those who cling to hope. I enjoy describing how things are, I have no interest in how they 'ought to be.' And I certainly have no interest in fixing them. I sincerely believe that if you think there's a solution, you're part of the problem. My motto: Fuck Hope!

George Carlin

#11. i needed someone who wasn't hell-bent on fixing me. someone without an agenda. someone who saw beauty marks instead of flaws. someone who wouldn't leave me when my past caught up with me. someone who would love me. unconditionally.

Adrian Michael

#12. 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

#13. Expanding Medicaid without fixing Medicaid is a terrible idea.

Bob McDonnell

#14. The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try to work how who was to blame.

Terry Pratchett

#15. Whether it is drawing or painting, skilled Artists usually deliver a faster result without jeopardizing the quality, simply because they don't have to waste their time on fixing mistakes.

Igor Babailov

#16. Let's worry about fixing the problem instead of the blame.

Brandon Mull

#17. The difficulty in weaning the mind from worldly thoughts, from external objects, and fixing it on God is the same as in making the Ganga flow towards Gangotri instead of its natural flow towards Ganga-Sagar. It is like rowing against the current of the Yamuna.

Sivananda Saraswati

#18. If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during which time God only knows how much human damage will occur.

Douglas Coupland

#19. My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

Shaun White

#20. Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer.

Kent McCord

#21. Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.

Ron Wyden

#22. I am opposed to Obama's efforts to destroy the American economy. I'm opposed to Obama's efforts to so-called fix the health care system. I'm opposed to the way Obama wants to go about fixing unemployment.

Rush Limbaugh

#23. Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared.

Calvin Coolidge

#24. Great, the worlds coming to an end and we're fixing it with Band-Aids

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#25. The key to fixing the problem is to understand just what needs fixing or improving.

Mark Rewhorn

#26. The more "things" I have, the more time I spend thinking about them, moving them around, fixing them, looking for them, or upgrading them.

Taite Adams

#27. Recognizing our shortcomings is a crucial first step on the path to making better decisions, creating better societies, and fixing our institutions.

Dan Ariely

#28. 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

#29. If everybody contemplates the infinite instead of fixing the drains, many of us will die of cholera.

John Rich

#30. The unions are the first feeble effort to conquer the industrial jungle for democratic life. They may not succeed, but if they don't their failure will be a tragedy for civilization, a loss of cooperative effort, a baulking of energy, and the fixing in American life of a class-structure.

Walter Lippmann

#31. I have always tried to live by the philosophy that when there is a big problem that needs fixing, you should run towards it, rather than away from it.

Henry Paulson

#32. Hanging laundry on a line is a very ordinary task. It is as ordinary as scraped knees and lost keys, as fixing the same simple dish for supper again, and again. Ordinary is most days, and Lord helps is if we overlook them.

Jerusalem Jackson Greer

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

Tom Duff

#34. I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.

Claude Monet

#35. So you fixing to turn farmer on me?" "I'm fixing to do what it takes to win her. And now I come to think on it, right before we met Tamsen, that day in Morganton, weren't you the one talking about planting more corn, getting that cow? Sounded to me like you were the one thinking on turning farmer.

Lori Benton

#36. She had climbed into his turmoil and made herself at home, fixing him one brick at a time from the inside, powerless to stop her, she touched his pain and made it a little better each time.

V. Theia

#37. There is no perception among the American people, nor their elected representatives, that there is a serious problem that needs fixing.

Robert Reischauer

#38. We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.

Mehmet Oz

#39. Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#40. I'll get depressed out on the road simply because I'm not being the mama that's cooking supper every night, or that's fixing my husband's plate and my baby's plate. You miss those things, and I miss them.

Ashton Shepherd

#41. I honestly wear myself out walking around, fixing this and fixing that. Maybe that's why I like to work so much - so I can just get to that moment where I'm like, "Whoa." I have to be super tired and knocked out to stop!

Jennifer Lopez

#42. The little energy you obtained from your breakfast can ignite your willingness to kick start. Don't overlook the little energy you have now by fixing eyes on a supposed magical influence farther away!

Israelmore Ayivor

#43. The whole thing with recording is you have to know when to turn off the tape machine and just stop recording because you want to keep fixing, fixing, fixing, you know?

Linda Ronstadt

#44. If you do write down your passwords, don't make it obvious which password corresponds to which account. Even better, write the passwords incorrectly and make up an easy rule for fixing them. You could decide to add 1 to each number in your password, so that 2x6Y is written as 3x7Y.

Barton Gellman

#45. Everybody screws up, ... Remember that. The trick is to realize it and start fixing the screwup.

Jon Jackson

#46. I'm quite handy with a screwdriver. I like making and fixing things.

Raza Jaffrey

#47. You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.

Marcus Buckingham

#48. If you don't have any feelings for Will Darcy, why are you blushing and fixing your hair?

Elizabeth Eulberg

#49. I was cutting and threading pipe in the tunnels to get water into the shower rooms for athletics. I was repairing old metal windows, fixing cement walls where rain was coming through, and drying out the maple gym floors in hopes of removing the warping.

Tom Baker

#50. Writers need to be tough. This is not for the weak of will. And we have to realize that, yeah, it's never good enough. It's not like fixing a car where it's precise and we know what the end result will be definitively.

David Morrell

#51. The idea of fixing of healing is an important part of any genuine spiritual approach. Kabbalah is very much about this idea of fixing of things that have been damaged. From a Buddhist point of view, things have been damaged because ignorance has intoxicated the mind.

Richard Gere

#52. Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought ... about potential pitfalls.

Bobby Knight

#53. It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.

Thomas Jefferson

#54. All their love had been a way of fixing time, each embrace a moment's touch of the eternal, because the caress preserves.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#55. I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I know who I really was.

Sade Andria Zabala

#56. Well, The Rock says this, you should be concerned with fixing yourself a nice, tall glass of shut-up juice!

Dwayne Johnson

#57. 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

#58. There was something satisfying about swinging the hammer, hitting the nails, and fixing the porch. It made me feel strong. It made me feel powerful.

Shannon Wiersbitzky

#59. You used to have the jokes about never fixing the roof until it rained. People were undoubtedly the same now, or worse. They might well wait until something happened that forced them to act; that something would almost certainly be unpleasant - most likely, serious. Yet

George R. Stewart

#60. Have you really seen God?" he said, placing his hand on the young man's shoulder and fixing him with his protuberant eyes.
Believing that the sound he could hear of a thousand voices singing was no longer the wind, Averill said, "I am seeing him now.

Frederick Buechner

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

Brittainy C. Cherry

#62. I think what all of us have in common is that we've been taught and trained and programmed to focus on fixing and mutilating ourselves. That's a core reason why women do not have power in the world.

Eve Ensler

#63. Every copywriter knows what it is to struggle with a copy for hours, for days - fixing it, polishing it, rearranging it. We have all been quilty of leaving the headline until the last and the spending half and hour on it - or perhaps only ten minutes.

John Caples

#64. I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around fixing them?

Elizabeth Edwards

#65. I care about Alec," Jace said, fixing Magnus with an unswerving gaze. "I care about him more than I care about myself.

Cassandra Clare

#66. So the real question remains whether every problem is worth fixing. The answer to that is no.

Kaya McLaren

#67. How much of your time, at your "hourly rate," is wasted each year because you're cleaning up after your employees and fixing issues they've created or haven't resolved themselves?

Liz Weber

#68. Or maybe they had always been breaking down but we didn't notice until someone stopped fixing them.

Cheryl Julia Lee

#69. What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.

Samuel Johnson

#70. I'm not supposed to need fixing; I'm the strong one - the lookout.

Wally Lamb

#71. Have you ever noticed, when things seem to be working against you, that if you focus on fixing things, think about a solution, that inevitably you work it all out?

Everett Peacock

#72. Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right.

Etgar Keret

#73. Our only consolation, as we feel our own strength failing us, is to feel that we may help those who come after us to do more and to do better than ourselves, fixing their eyes as they can on the great horizons of which we only had a glimpse," pronounced Pasteur, with characteristic gallantry. Many

Bill Wasik

#74. She would have given her soul to him if he had asked her. And now both were fixing their eyes on the ground, abashed, and again were throwing glances at each other, smiling with love's desire.

Edith Hamilton

#75. Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#76. When times are the toughest, don't get discouraged. God may be fixing to do something wonderful

Christine T. Monsen

#77. Instead of fixing himself, he drank and made himself worse, but the man he became was not the man he was,

Kristin Hannah

#78. Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#79. You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines,
all this leprous day and then more vodka,
more soda and the pond forgiving our bodies,
the pond sucking out the throb.

Anne Sexton

#80. When you get older, you kind of learn when something is done, you just walk away. Sometimes people just want to keep fixing things. But you know it's kind of just like your gut that tells you, "You're done, walk away" because you can always keep fixing it.

Rob Zombie

#81. The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants.

H.L. Mencken

#82. Like their Martian ancestors, men pride themselves on being experts, especially when it comes to fixing mechanical things, getting places, or solving problems. These are the times when he needs her loving acceptance the most and not her advice or criticism.

John Gray

#83. Once I get the horse where he's responding and working for ya and has a good frame of mind and a good attitude, it's not just the horse that needs fixing. It's the human that needs fixing and it's the human that created that in the first place.

Buck Brannaman

#84. In Kabbalah, as in the Hassidic tradition, you cure the body, but you fix the soul. Curing takes time, but fixing, if you know how to do it, is immediate.

Shlomo Carlebach

#85. 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

#86. The Quantum Mechanic will fix your car, but it won't work unless you observe him fixing it

Dean Cavanagh

#87. My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him walking past with a step-ladder. He was always fixing things.

Rachel Joyce

#88. Enlighten us. If the first step isn't tolerance, where does a pair of bigots begin in fixing a mess like this?

Nora Sakavic

#89. No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.

David Deutsch

#90. Never heard you talk about a man this way. Usually you rattle off their attributes like you're fixing to fricassee the poor sons of bitches. God help the poor bastard you ever fall in love with.

Leslea Tash

#91. Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader.

Andy Stanley

#92. What if no one can fix me?"
"You don't need fixing." He gives a sad smile and wipes a tear away with his thumb. "It's like your mosaics. The beauty is already there, you just find it. Let go, sweetheart.

Lexi Ryan

#93. To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#94. One of my roommates called it 'agape.' I'd never heard the word before, but it was her favorite word, and I was instantly enamored because the definition of agape is loving a person for exactly who they are - not who we hope they'll become with enough fixing.

Hannah Brencher

#95. 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

#96. Sometimes things that are worth having are worth fixing up. Not everything comes in perfect condition, but it doesn't mean it's not the right one for you.

S.M. Reine

#97. 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

#98. Millions are unemployed and our roads are falling apart. If we can spend $6 trillion sending people to war, we can spend $1 trillion to put Americans to work fixing our nation's crumbling infrastructure. Let's rebuild America and create jobs.

Bernie Sanders

#99. But it's funny how you can take something that turns out to be fatal and classify it as not worth fixing.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#100. You don't have the right to make that call, not after all this time. I can barely breathe when you're near me, but I'll surely suffocate if I have to lose you. How can you ask me to do that?" She turned her face away. "I'm stronger than you think." She looked back at him. "And I'll do my own fixing.

Madison Thorne Grey