Top 32 Quotes About Patching Up
#1. I started out doing multiple characters from day one, when I got my fist job in 'Dumbo's Circus.' I'm used to getting in an argument with myself, throwing myself off a cliff, patching myself up and brushing myself off with an arm around my shoulder.
Jim Cummings
#2. It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.
Lewis Thomas
#3. It is worthless talking about what we have been spared by death. Death grins at that I am sure. Death of all creation knows the value of life.
Sebastian Barry
#5. If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
Kapil Dev
#6. All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
Iain Duncan Smith
#7. As a newcomer to America who learned to 'speak American' by watching movies, I firmly believe that to change the politics of immigration and citizenship, we must change culture - the way we portray undocumented people like me and our role in society.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#8. For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.
James Russell Lowell
#9. Whether the task is fixing health care, upgrading K-12 education, bolstering national security, or a host of other missions, the U.S. is better at patching problems than fixing them.
Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
#10. The worst of getting old,' said Winnie, 'is the time one has to spend in patching oneself up.
Miss Read
#11. We cannot change situations in life, but we can change our attitude towards them
Mata Amritanandamayi
#12. I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars.
Lou Doillon
#13. Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.
Tom Hodgkinson
#14. It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.
John Updike
#15. See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.
Philip James Bailey
#16. Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Warren Buffett
#17. She sometimes felt less like a primary-care pediatrician and more like a battlefield surgeon, patching up her patients and sending them back to war.
Paul Tough
#18. We often speak of domestic terrorism and hate crimes in the same breath, and there is a fine line between the two, and certainly overlap in some cases.
James Comey
#19. Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber
#20. It ain't necessarily that way, Raymond," his grandmother had said when he told her this truth. "You been looking at the wrong pictures." She got up off her chair and put aside the quilt she'd been patching
Jodi Picoult
#21. Mortal has not been a habitable place for a long time. We have been trying to survive patching it but one day it will break completely. Twinmortal is the future for all of us. You will achieve that future for us by learning has much as you can.
Carolina Cody Aldaz
#22. Instead I just let the silence stretch out between us. It's the only adequate response to what he just told me, the only that does the tragedy any justice instead of patching it hastily and moving on.
Veronica Roth
#23. At the end of the 19th century, people were filled with thoughts of future hope, but at the end of the 20th century, it was fear, hate, and mistrust.
Joel T. McGrath
#24. The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.
Edward Bach
#25. The words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the prophets call the bat qol, the daughter of the voice of God, she who speaks in whispers and half-seen images.
Laurie R. King
#26. I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
Larry David
#27. (She) could have read for hours, except that recently she had discovered holes and crevices between the words which she immediately had to fill with her own ideas until she was fed up with patching up the makeshift constructs.
Gerhard Amanshauser
#28. With Michael Jackson, what I thought was really interesting was the people saying: 'He looked really well in that final video.' I was, like: 'No, he didn't - he looked like someone had melted goat's cheese over a sex doll.'
Russell Howard
#29. Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late ... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education ... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#30. I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.
John Boyne
#31. How lucky my life is that I have two arms, and two legs, and ten fingers with which to make things out of wood.
Nick Offerman
#32. Each person is worth the value put on them by the affection of others, and that is where popular wisdom has found that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Machado De Assis
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