Top 77 Quotes About Patch Up
#1. Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.
Alice Sebold
#2. Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye.
What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high,
And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher,
Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.
William Butler Yeats
#3. Dr. Parker and all my parents live in a paper-mache world. They just patch up problems with strips of newspaper and a little glue.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#4. One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system.
Bernard Crick
#6. 'I'm sorry' won't fix what's been broken. It can't reverse time or undo the damage or change anything that happened. But a sincere, humble apology can serve to soften the sting and sometimes do a pretty good patch up job.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#7. God does not patch up the old life,
or make certain repairs on the old life;
He gives a new life, through the new birth.
Kathryn Kuhlman
#8. I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.
Harry S. Truman
#9. Life would be a darned sight simpler if feelings were as easy to patch up as a piece of sailcloth.
Harry Haskell
#10. Love is donating a chunk of your life to patch up holes in the life of another.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#11. Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.
Charles Churchill
#12. You can't patch up someone forgetting about you. For the rest of your life you'll always be worrying that they'll forget about you the same way they did before. You'll always know that they'd be a hundred percent fine without you but you wouldn't be a hundred percent fine without them.
Cath Crowley
#14. I situate myself, and seat myself,
And where you recline I shall recline,
For every armchair belonging to you as good as belongs to me.
I loaf and curl up my tail
I yawn and loaf at my ease after rolling in the catnip patch.
(From Meow of Myself, from LEAVES OF CATNIP)
Henry N. Beard
#15. . . . nunc et in hora mortis nostrae,' he repeated yet again, and felt the lap of water on his foot. He looked up. The people had gone; the pyre was no more than a dark patch with the sea hissing in its embers; and he was alone. The tide was rising fast.
Patrick O'Brian
#16. It only wakes up the burning desire I always feel whenever I'm close to this man and the shadows of my fears back away. - Skye
Stephanie Witter
#17. You're crazy. You're impossible."
"I'm crazy?"
He tipped my chin up and planted a quick, rough kiss on my mouth. "And I must be crazy for putting up with it.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#18. I am reminded that every day I have the chance to pick up a needle and some thread and add to the story. To stitch together something beautiful and unique, to patch a small scrap of fabric to the story, to the Story of God, that will be retold again and again for all of eternity.
Jerusalem Jackson Greer
#19. Do you think they're going to buy that a guy in tacky leather chaps dances like this?" I scoffed when he twirled me back into his embrace.
"Keep it up, and I'll put you in the chaps." He didn't smile, but I sensed an undercurrent of amusement.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#20. All this time I've hated myself for it. I thought I'd given it up for nothing. But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#21. At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.
Patch Adams
#22. Everybody freaks out at some point. It's how you patch yourself up that counts.
Jessica Spotswood
#23. No matter how many times I witness the miracle of someone having their sight restored, I'm still overwhelmed with emotion. When the eye patch comes off just 24 hours after surgery and you see that smile light up the room, you are witnessing a life being transformed.
Gabi Hollows
#24. Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack.
Desmond Tutu
#25. There's only so much a man can survive and as fucking weak as it sounds, I reached my limits when Skye disappeared. - Duke
Stephanie Witter
#26. I love you to insanity. I'm not even sure if it's a good thing.' - Duke
Stephanie Witter
#27. In another universe I probably came out OK, ended up with mad novias and jobs and a sea of love in which to swim, but in this world I had a brother who was dying of cancer and a long dark patch of life like a mile of black ice waiting for me up ahead.
Junot Diaz
#28. I have to keep moving I don't want to think I'm going to work all day today I don't want to stop Don't want to let my brain catch up my thoughts How will I be able to tell them that I'm a shadow A grey patch of cold rotting life
Henry Rollins
#29. Sometimes I think this job is going to kill me," Abby said. "Seeing what people have done, what people continue to do, to my Foxes. I wish I could protect you, but I'm always too late. All I can do is patch you up afterward and hope for the best. I'm sorry, Neil. We should have been there for you.
Nora Sakavic
#30. What are you thinking, Amos?" "Nothing real subtle. Figure we hop outside, kill a few assholes that need killing, patch stuff up when we're done with the first part." Naomi
James S.A. Corey
#31. On impulse, I go round the small clearing, picking up all the trash, working with a burst of energy. There isn't a rubbish bin, but I gather it together and put it next to a large rock. My life might be a mess, but I can clear a patch of land, at least.
Sophie Kinsella
#32. His finger flicked open a button on my cardigan-then two, three, four. It tumbled off my shoulders, leaving me in my camisole. He pushed up the hem, teasing and stroking his thumb across my stomach. My breath came in a sharp intake of air.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#33. I bypass car-size lemonade bushes, zingy with a hint of gym socks, toward a patch of lichen flourishing at the base of a eucalyptus. I put my nose right up to the musty scent, even though it smells like raccoon urine. Aromateurs are trained from an early age to view each scent with objectivity. "You
Stacey Lee
#34. God, I...I could use some help with the shoveling if I'm going to dig up some faith. Some hope.
Jessica R. Patch
#35. I reckon a man in a tight might let Bill Varner patch him up like a mule, but I be damned if the man that'd let Anse Bundren treat him with raw cement aint got more spare legs than I have.
William Faulkner
#36. Will you be able to touch me again without thinking about Sean? I don't want you to be disgusted by me.
Stephanie Witter
#37. She even tried the one which every romantic nerve in her body insisted should work, which consisted of theatrically giving up, sitting down, and letting her glance fall naturally on a patch of earth which, if she had been in any decent narrative, should have contained the book.
It didn't.
Terry Pratchett
#38. I support Alice Waters in her desire that there be a vegetable garden at the White House. I don't think they should rip up the Rose Garden, because that's something that I love. They should probably dig up another patch and grow some vegetables there.
Martha Stewart
#39. Patch-work - like a swath of chain mail. He picked up a delicate curl of bronze and fitted it into place. "Done," he announced. "It's done.
Rick Riordan
#40. Winter does adversely affect [the roads] and our roads have been let go, so they're more and more porous. We're going to have to put more and more emphasis on permanent patch and maintenance, so I expect a great deal of roads breaking up in the spring.
Bill Vaughan
#41. You know she needs you. Think for a minute instead of playing the wounded ego card.' - Derek
Stephanie Witter
#42. At this very moment with my girl in my arms, I feel like there's nothing I can't do for her, for us. - Duke
Stephanie Witter
#43. Somehow, the road rises up to meet you Patch, when you are ready.
Michele Jennae
#44. The reason adults should look as though they are having fun, is to give kids a reason to want to grow up.
Patch Adams
#45. An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It's a basic tell of character.
Anthony Bourdain
#46. At least, for once I was there for her. I didn't fail her. She wasn't alone. - Duke
Stephanie Witter
#47. Are you saying you gave up getting a human body for me?" He lifted my bandaged hand. Underneath all the game, my knuckles throbbed from punching Jules. Patch kissed each finger, taking his time, keeping his eyes glued to mine.
"What good is a body if I can't have you?
Becca Fitzpatrick
#49. If I wanted easy, I'd chain myself in hell beside Rixon. The two of us could kick back and soak up the rays together.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#50. The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go.
Sharon Stone
#51. Sleep is a patch of death, but three in the morn, full wide-eyed staring, is living death! You dream with your eyes open. God, if you had the strength to rouse up, you'd slaughter your half-dreams with a buckshot! But no, you lie pinned to a deep well-bottom that's burned dry.
Ray Bradbury
#52. Ook, though very clever, was the worst fighter in the tribe. That is how he ended up with Grot-Grot as his woman. Grot-Grot had a bald patch on the top of her head, she was missing an eye and she smelled like a dead skunk. She did have a good sense of humour though.
Aussiescribbler
#53. Therapy can't erase scars, it only makes it easier to live with them. - Duke
Stephanie Witter
#54. What a fucking charade.
Happy. That shit isn't in our cards. - Duke
Stephanie Witter
#55. When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly thought the clear air, watching the earth below, and the men on it, no bigger than ants.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#56. Arrogance can be deadly." The corners of his mouth crept up. "But you didn't hear me say that.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#57. Michael had slipped beyond the crest of the dune. Jacob was lying flat out now, on his stomach, his little men all before him, and Annie had followed her single soldier up the dune to a grassy patch where the wind whipped her dark hair and the blowing sand made her squint, even
Alice McDermott
#58. Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?
Patch Adams
#59. Hope is not logical. It always comes as a surprise, just when you think all hope is lost. Hope is the cousin to grief, and both take time: you can't short-circuit grief, or emptiness, and you can't patch it up with your bicycle tire tube kit. You have to take the next right action.
Anne Lamott
#60. If only I could sit and patch them up for him. That was my great ambition.
Kiera Cass
#61. Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#63. He was right. It made no sense at all, but the feeling flooded through Karou, and whatever it was, it was as sweet as a patch of sun on a glossy floor and, like a cat, she just wanted to curl up in it.
Laini Taylor
#64. I can't seem to take my eyes of the patch of skin that shows when he raises his hand to run his fingers through his hair, making his shirt ride up a little.
Jessica Sorensen
#65. With you and me, I don't know what anything means. We're pushing each other away and yet I don't seem to be able to let you go.
Stephanie Witter
#66. How about a ... deal?" His face was bent down, shadowed, and he looked up at me through his lashes. The effect was an impression of trustworthiness. "Help me make tacos, and I'll answer a dew of your questions.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#67. Despite everything he'd learned and witnessed firsthand, it called to him as much as hunger or thirst. A movement up on the left wall of the South Door caught his attention. Startled, he reacted quickly, looking just in time to see a flash of silver. A patch of ivy shook
James Dashner
#68. You're crowding me. I need - room. ...
What I needed were boundaries. I needed willpower. I needed to be caged up, since yet again I was proving I couldn't be trusted in Patch's presence. I should have been bolting for the door, and yet ... I wasn't.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#69. You should go," I breathed. "You should definitely go."
"Go here?" His mouth was on my shoulder. "Or here?" It moved up my neck.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#70. Are you gloating inside? That's what this is about, isn't it? Getting me to trust you so you could blow it up in my face!" [ ... ]
"I get that you're angry - ," said Patch.
"I am ripped apart!" I shouted.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#71. Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.
Jane Smiley
#72. His smile was sexy and warned of trouble, but I'd made up my mind that not all trouble was bad.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#73. I'm telling you this because I want you to know that I know something about you isn't right. You haven't fooled everybody. I'm going to find out what you're up to. I'm going to expose you."
"Looking forward to it.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#74. It's a lot easier to patch things up with somebody when he doesn't even know you were pissed off at him in the first place.
Steve Kluger
#75. What was up with class today? It was watered-down porn. He practically had you and Patch on top of your lab table, horizontal, minus your clothes, doing the Big Deed.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#76. I listen closely to her breathing getting slower, deeper until her hand settles over my heart, only beating for her. - Duke
Stephanie Witter
#77. I'm keeping a lot of things from you."
My insides took a steep dive. "Like?"
"Like the way I feel about being locked up in here with you." Patch braced one hand against the mirror behind me, his weight tipping toward me. "You have no idea what you do to me.
Becca Fitzpatrick
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