Quotes About Maintenance

People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes.

I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.

You can't treat a car like a human being. A car requires love.

Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy.

You have to work to keep love alive; you have to protect it and maintain it, just like you would a delicate flower.

Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance

but damaged machinery will continue to malfunction if its problems are neither diagnosed nor fixed.

damaged machinery will continue to malfunction if its problems are neither diagnosed nor fixed.

Living things die, after all, without attention. Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.

Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance. No one finds a match so perfect that the need for continued attention and work vanishes (and, besides, if you found the perfect person, he or she would run away from ever-so-imperfect you in justifiable horror). In truth, what you need—what you deserve, after all—is someone exactly as imperfect as you.

Freud and Jung, with their intense focus on the autonomous individual psyche, placed too little focus on the role of the community in the maintenance of personal mental health.

The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean.

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

Just a maintenance tech here, folks, heading home after a long night of rebooting routers. That's all. I am definitely not an indent making a daring escape with ten zettabytes of stolen company data in his pocket. Nosiree.

How would we express in terms of the statistical theory the marvellous faculty of a living organism, by which it delays the decay into thermodynamical equilibrium (death)? We said before: 'It feeds upon negative entropy', attracting, as it were, a stream of negative entropy upon itself, to compensate the entropy increase it produces by living and thus to maintain itself on a stationary and fairly low entropy level.

Psalm 131 is a maintenance psalm. It is functional to the person of faith as pruning is functional to the gardener: it gets rid of that which looks good to those who don't know any better, and reduces the distance between our hearts and their roots in God.

Christian faith needs continuous maintenance. It requires attending to. "If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. If you leave a white post alone it will soon be a black post.

Maintenance is the tax I pay on this life, I think. And that is why I want to do it by hand, with heavy shears.

Maintenance, she wrote, was the work of protecting progress, sustaining change, preserving the new, and keeping the dust off invention.

Something acquires meaning for an organism to the extent that it relates (either positively or negatively) to the norm of the maintenance of the organism's integrity.

The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there.

When I travel, I have to have blotting sheets. It's so much better to remove the oil than to cover it up because then your skin just looks cakey.

No matter what time I return home, I make it a point to remove my makeup with baby oil.

If you rent, that's it. You don't have to pay any interest to anybody. You don't have to pay any maintenance costs to anybody. You don't have to worry about whether the boiler is going to break down. While if you own your own home, you have a hundred aggravations.