Quotes About Putting Together The Pieces

#1. Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

Leo Tolstoy

#2. Maybe the hardest thing about moving over seas was being in a place where no one but your own family had any memory of you. It was like putting yourself back together in little pieces.

Naomi Shibab Nye

#3. The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.

Christian Marclay

#4. Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

Ray Bradbury

#5. It's like this ... a starving man would gladly eat a radish, right? In fact, a radish would be a feast if that's all he had. But if he had a buffet in front of him, the radish would never be chosen.

Colleen Houck

#6. He's an intricate, mesmerizing puzzle; I only succeeded at putting the pieces together because for once in my life I observed. I stopped talking long enough to listen - really listen - not just to what's said, but also to everything that goes unspoken.

Jody Gehrman

#7. My very first tattoo was for my dog, Zora, who died in my arms in New York. Right where her heart stopped beating I got a "Z".

Cheyenne Jackson

#8. I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.

Stephen Chbosky

#9. Women are such a mystery and it is such a wonderful adventure trying to work them out. It's like repeatedly taking a watch apart and then putting it back together again, but every time you are always left over with extra pieces, though never the same ones

Dimitris Mita

#10. There are going to be moments today you don't like me. You'll get over it.

Iyanla Vanzant

#11. Criminal investigation has been loosely compared to many things, including the putting together of a jigsaw puzzle. It is seldom that simple. The pieces of such a puzzle are of a fixed shape, immutable. Men and women change shape when touched.

Frances Lockridge

#12. The parts of our lives when we write them down seem to belong in different books, by different writers even. What all these bits and pieces make up I don't know. There is no plot. Perhaps meaning is something we invent afterward, putting it all together, like imagined God.

Niall Williams

#13. My heart sank. 'You're not going to age another day,' I mumbled to myself. 'You'll never grow old.' He was done. I hadn't even started and and he was already done.

Kelley R. Martin

#14. Am learning every day that there are more threads to me
That I have been rising and changing, rediscovering who I am
becoming who I want to be
putting the broken pieces back together and becoming an arrow
continuing to rise into the light.

Honey Badger

#15. I love fashion, and I love clothes, and so collaborating and putting pieces together is a passion that I have.

Nina Dobrev

#16. For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common.

Elliot Richardson

#17. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

George Orwell

#18. Trust in Jesus, wholeheartedly. Don't try to figure things out yourself. Just be intimate with Him!

Gary Patton

#19. I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished.

Matt Berninger

#20. A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature.

Jacob Bronowski

#21. When I'm with him, I can feel myself getting better. It's like he's picking up broken pieces of me and putting me back together, and I don't even know he's doing it. We never talk about it. We don't go to therapy. He just loves me and that's enough.

Ilona Andrews

#22. My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that gets lost in the movie.

Stephen King

#23. Getting to know someone is like putting a never-ending puzzle together. We fit the smallest pieces first and we get to know ourselves better in the process.

Iain Reid

#24. Finding your style is like putting puzzle pieces together.

Lara Spencer

#25. I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Marcy Kaptur