Quotes About Repair

No one has a perfect life but I didn't want to say that to her. "I think we use horses to repair our own lives. If we can make their lives trouble-free then it doesn't matter so much if ours are a mess.

At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.

We didn't have much money growing up and charity shops were the most reasonable option, I think. But my mum's always recycled, reused, restored and repaired.

I'm a quick healer.

As a whole the world is more primitive today than it was fifty years ago. Certain backward areas have advanced, and various devices, always in some way connected with warfare and police espionage, have been developed, but experiment and invention have largely stopped, and the ravages of the atomic war of the Nineteen-fifties have never been fully repaired.

La vie ne connaît pas la réversibilité. Mais si elle n'admet pas le rétablissement, la vie admet des réparations qui sont vraiment des innovations physiologiques. La réduction plus ou moins grande de ces possibilités d'innovation mesure la gravité de la maladie. Quant à la santé, au sens absolu, elle n'est pas autre chose que l'indétermination initiale de la capacité d'institution de nouvelles normes biologiques.

A bad leak? Sure it'd baptize you!

I enjoy working on anything mechanical.

We came into a broken world. And we're the cleanup crew.

What I absolutely want is to suggest that before it's anything else, redemption is God mending the bicycle of our souls; God bringing out the puncture repair kit, re-inflating the tires, taking off the rust, making us roadworthy once more. Not so that we can take flight into ecstasy, but so that we can do the next needful mile of our lives.

The body, I have often thought, is like a promise. You keep things in it. Those things are covert, immediate, yours. There is something lustrous about them. They emit energy, like radium or appliances. They can be replaced, repaired or simply discarded. The promise of the body is very firm and intact. It's the only promise we can count on, and we can't really count on it very much.

Don't be afraid to mess up. You can always drive a new screw or patch a hole. You just have to have the confidence to fix it.

Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.

When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?

I think really, if I were to defend the K-1 strikers, that it was a pressure of not enough time to re-prepare for a fight and not enough time to repair for a fight as a result of the last show.

For a moment, I panic. It's that feeling of falling when you know without question, that you've lost control of your car, or made a mistake that's beyond repair. 'What do I do now?' I ask desperately. 'Tell me! What do I do now?' He remains calm. He looks at me closely and says, 'Keep living, Ed... It's only the pages that stop here.

preparatory to some repairs

at the wide wooden table, sharpening my knives.  A cook's knives are her greatest asset, and if they go dull, they are no use at all and should be replaced. As decent knives are hideously expensive, I kept mine in good repair. I did not trust anyone with

because of the previous damage, it couldn't safely be done.

Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul.

Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul. Yet

Medicine's focus is narrow. Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul.

When should we try to fix and when should we not?

Avoid self-pity by taking responsibility for everything that happens to you, even if somebody else is at fault. By taking responsibility, I don't mean play doormat. I mean, repair yourself. Move forward. Move on. Then, only then, see if you can wrangle some empathy.