Quotes About Repair

Is there anything more adult than sticking with a relationship that's falling apart in the hope that you can put it right? I've never done that in my life.

That's what a marriage is...Pieces break off, and you glue them back on.

When there was a crack in something it only widened if you didn't tend to it. Let it go long enough, a crack became a break, and you had a hell of a mess on your hands.

When there was a crack in something it only widened if you didn't tend to it. Let it go long enough, a crack became a break, and you had a hell of a mess on your hands.

The droid stands up. Servomotors whir as it regards its repaired arm—an arm that's not so much an arm as it is an astromech leg. It spins the leg around, slow at first, then faster and faster until it's just a blur. "THIS IS NOT MY ARM." "I know, Bones. Sorry." "THIS IS AN ASTROMECH LEG." "No, no, I know." "ASTROMECHS ARE INFERIOR. THEY ARE BEEPING BOOPING TRASH CANS. I AM MADE INFERIOR BY THE INCLUSION OF THIS NON-ARM.

When they were done hauling, the boys had performed surgery—cut the rotten tissue from the house and plopped it on the tray of the curb.

Non possiamo illuderci che la natura abbia una capacità illimitata di riparare ai guasti che l'uomo le infligge.

They scrubbed, repaired, overhauled, and polished every exposed surface of the ships.

They applied pitch to fraying hemp, and repaired torn or stressed sails.

This last group repaired the hundreds of casks and buckets aboard the ships by replacing hoops or staves

I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't see why not you." "Why not me?

If it can't be fixed by duct tape or WD-40, it's a female problem.

Prepare and prevent, don't repair and repent.

What would you have done in the old days?' he asked. 'If you'd been piloting a gnat with this kind of damage?' 'Flown it back to a workshop in the Peerless for repairs.' 'And if you couldn't use the engines until the repairs were completed?' Tarquinia said, 'Then I'd call someone for a tow. See how a lifetime of experience has prepared me for this moment?

You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken—rather than being careful with them in the first place.

Coherent Counsel! Good man. Require of us our terribly excluded blue. Constrain, repair a ripped, revolted land. Put hand in hand land over. Reprove the abler droughts and manias of the day and a felicity entreat. Love. Complete your pledges, reinforce your aides, renew stance, testament.

My soul does everything it can to repair the irreparable.

Nobody ever tells you when you are young, that once you are broken in certain ways, you may never be fixed

There is nothing here that's broken that can't be fixed, but it won't happen on its own. It's going to require a huge lift by the entire country of the United States of America and people on the ground taking personal responsibility for themselves. You cannot take it as a fait accompli that the city's going to come back.

It is a lot harder to put something back together than to keep it running.

A lot of people do what we call neurotic things in order to repair their childhood.

Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work—and what to do when they break.

To patch up a relationship, understanding is the needle, and love is the thread.

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.