Top 29 Trying To Fix Something Broken Quotes
#1. The best love story is when you fall in love with the most unexpected person at the most unexpected time.
Anonymous
#2. With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.
Kate Bernheimer
#3. Stop trying to 'fix' yourself; you're NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure.
Steve Maraboli
#5. But please ... don't keep trying to fix us, Harper. We're not broken.
Rachel Hawkins
#6. Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners
Max Perutz
#7. If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#8. His response right now wouldn't win his brother the support he needs as a new king-and it just might push his father to cut his tongue after all. And groveling at Emma's feet without a tongue would be inconvenient.
Anna Banks
#9. I have a history of trying to fix that which is broken, and I still don't think I've fully learned that people can't be fixed, they have to fix themselves.
L. H. Cosway
#10. It wasn't human nature to leave things alone. It was normal for people to try to fix things that didn't need to be fixed; or, infinitely worse, trying to fix things that were broken, because some things are meant to be broken
Tom Upton
#11. I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#12. The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.
Max Beerbohm
#13. A breakup is like a broken mirror . It is better to leave it alone than hurt yourself trying to fix it .
Linda Wisdom
#14. A woman without a man
a condition of 'manlessness'
is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.
Barbara Kingsolver
#15. I think you've been hurt too much from an early age. You were trying to fix the world that broke you. When that didn't work you pretended you weren't broken. But you don't have to pretend with me, because no matter what you do I'll always accept you.
Sarah Noffke
#16. I suppose most things in a person's life are good for a while, even if that doesn't last very long. Maybe that is why, even after something has gone wrong, we spend so much time trying to fix it. Because we remember when it wasn't broken.
Claire Legrand
#17. She'd just proven she was capable of crazy, or maybe she'd proven she was in love, or perhaps those were the same thing.
Asymmetrical Press
#18. I'm broken, and no one can fix it. I've tried. I'm still trying. I can't love anyone because it's not fair to anyone who loves me back. I'll never hurt you ... But I can't promise I won't pick you apart, piece by piece, until you're in a thousand pieces just like me.
Jennifer Niven
#19. We're all works in progress, Diaz. We're all broken and bleeding and trying to fix ourselves up into something human.
Allison Van Diepen
#20. But I also know that someone who's constantly trying to fix you is implying that you're broken.
Eileen Rendahl
#21. We were both broken, trying to become unbroken. Maybe we just needed a little help. Not to fix each other, but to help us fix ourselves.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#22. Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.
Eve Ensler
#23. Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.
Margaret Atwood
#24. Cupidity ... takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on the way to its true end, terminates in a value which does not exist, and thus frustrates all its deepest capacities for happiness and peace.
Thomas Merton
#25. The halfling was still standing, trying to straighten his dishevelled hat and fix the broken orange feather. "You know," he said nonchalantly, "sometimes is not so bad to be short." Luthien
R.A. Salvatore
#27. Well, we're trying to patch and fix and put a cast on a broken system here. You can call it what you want, but we'll continue to purchase power in a private market.
Gray Davis
#28. I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage.
Anne Lamott
#29. A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked.
Danny Hillis