Quotes About Repair

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together.

A me piace chi conosce il suo mestiere e lavora per far durare le cose di tutti un poco di più. L'arte nobile della manutenzione, di non buttare via quello che ancora può funzionare, che si può aggiustare. Anche questo per me significa una repubblica fondata sul lavoro, e sul restauro.

You don't take a hammer – not to mention an electric screwdriver and a pipe wrench – to a guy's computer without being quite angry.

Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.

A fix-it man, they used to call it, when things still got fixed instead of just junked. If

When you can step back at moments like these and see what is happening, when you watch people you love under fire or evaporating, you realize that the secret of life is patch patch patch. Thread your needle, make a knot, find one place on the other piece of torn cloth where you can make one stitch that will hold. And do it again. And again. And again.

The ancient Chinese had a practice of embellishing the cracked parts of valued possessions with gold leaf, which says: We dishonor it if we pretend that it hadn't gotten broken. It says: We value this enough to repair it. So it is not denial or a cover-up. It is the opposite, an adornment of the break with gold leaf, which draws the cracks into greater prominence. The gold leaf becomes part of its beauty.

Look what you did. (Jericho snapped at Zarek.) I broke it. (Jericho)

objects can be fixed or replaced. But the feelings of loved ones are not so easily mended." Thr

No matter how well prepared you are in life, you're gonna fall down a hole, and if you can fix the frayed ends of things, then you're better off.

How can a man's life keep it's course If he will not let it flow, Those who flow as life flows know They need no other force: They feel no wear, they feel no tear, They need no mending, no repair.

Hunting party," Horace said Both Halt and Will looked at him sarcastically. "You think?" Will said. "Maybe they found the deer and brought him back to repair him.

My father replaced the handle and I replaced the head,' he said. 'But otherwise, it's completely original.

Hope we didn't break it," Edvin muttered. Hal shrugged. "It's not our bridge.

you are born to move with grace, born to embrace novelty and variety, born to crave wide-open spaces, and, above all, born to love. But one of the more profound facts that will emerge is that you are born to heal. Your body fixes itself. A big part of this is an idea called homeostasis, which is a wonderfully intricate array of functions that repair the wear and tear and stress of living.

I began to think the damage to our country, to us even, went so deep now that it would never fully be repaired. I realised the worst damage wasn't the bombed buildings, the burnt-out cars, the shattered windows. It wasn't even the neglected farms and the holes in the fences and the crops gone to seed. It was the damage deep inside us. Words like spirit and soul started to mean more to me now.

I was gambling that if she wasn't actively bleeding, her Koregan parasite could repair her the same way mine had repaired me. Otherwise, well, there wasn't much I could do for her that wouldn't result in gangrene.

You never quite know when you may hope to repair the damage done by going away.

then you must say to her, 'Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you...

There. I've poked my leg, rolled down a bank and been hit in the head with the canoe. All simple things. All fixable things.

If you think that your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend.

Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair.

What's broke can never be whole again.