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Quotes About Band-Aid

The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
No, in the end, easier to tear it down and start over. The soundless scream of social media these days. The system must be destroyed. It can't be fixed. Unitopia must have begun to seem like a Band-Aid applied to a gaping chest wound.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
like putting a Band-Aid on an amputated limb. [When] you have a person with extreme human distress, [we need to] stop treating the symptoms. The symptoms are a messenger of a deeper problem. Let's get to the deeper problem.
~ Johann Hari
And somewhere in between then and now irony slipped its way into my vocabulary. Laughter became the antidote for guilt. Sacrifice grew to be a Band-Aid for shame.
~ Sarah Kay
Ice cream is just a Band-Aid. Pain is still there when you wake up.
~ Elizabeth Rudnick
The million-dollar marital Band-Aid, never a wise idea.
~ Marisha Pessl
Legislators should demand that we not go through the entire pension reform debate just to apply a band-aid when this patient needs a quadruple bypass.
~ Walker Stapleton
Lamentations is insurance against premature comfort, against "healing the wounds of my people lightly" During the time of ruin there are always those who attempt to cover the wounds of judgment with band-aid comfort. But comfort cannot function apart from a serious grappling with the pain of judgment.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
I lay on the ground, but then I can't reach - I don't want to take my foot out of the tub - but I've got to call somebody because I've got to get a band-aid or something to stop the bleeding.
~ Danny DeVito
Fang swerved closer to me, big and supremely graceful, like a black panther with wings. Oh, God. I'm so stupid. Forget I just said that. He needs a Band-Aid, I said. A look passed between me and Fang, full of suppressed humor, relief, understanding,love — Forget I said that too. I don't know what's wrong with me.
~ James Patterson
It was like someone looking at a horrible battlefield wound and saying, "Let's put a Band-Aid on this thing, patch it right up!
~ James Patterson
The politicians are all useless individuals. Nobody is reducing the problems in the U.S. or Europe, just putting on a Band-Aid and postponing the problems endlessly.
~ Marc Faber
Too frequently, in Congress or in nationwide politics at large, we are reactive. We look for easy, short-term solutions, and we try to put a Band-Aid on these massive, structural problems.
~ Abigail Spanberger
Fighting the Taliban and the various radical organizations on the front lines is like adding a Band-Aid to a cut, it may stop the bleeding but unless you clean it with antiseptic, the germs stay and multiply.
~ Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
I feel a loosened Band-Aid release itself from my ankle and fall off, but I don't turn around to pick it up. I don't care about litter because I am immortal.
~ Vendela Vida
The best way to break up with a girl is like I'm taking off a band-aid. Slowly and in the shower.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.
~ Jodi Picoult
Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times I stayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that I would not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that my father worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to come home to a house that felt too big for us.
~ Jodi Picoult
I'd rather be physically hurt than emotionally; You can put a band-aid on your finger, but you cant put one on your heart.
~ Unknown
There are two ways to remove a Band-Aid : slowly and painfully, or quickly and painfully. Your choice.
~ Unknown
You might as well humor me and let the Band-Aid boys check you out.
~ Pamela Clare