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Quotes About Patch

Hope is not logical. It always comes as a surprise, just when you think all hope is lost. Hope is the cousin to grief, and both take time: you can't short-circuit grief, or emptiness, and you can't patch it up with your bicycle tire tube kit. You have to take the next right action.
~ Anne Lamott
Night was all around her, but a denser patch flowed forward, stepping over the dying boy to pause beyond the reach of her blade.
~ Elizabeth Bear
what I seek is the goodness of God that waters the dry places. And water overflows from one dry patch to another, and so you cannot be selfish in digging for it.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
Cats thrive when they can walk around and sleep in a patch of sunlight.
~ Beth Ostrosky Stern
Before you throw it away, let Mighty Mendit save the day.
~ Billy Mays
Anyone who uses Windows on their home computer is familiar with routine security updates, which Microsoft issues on the second Tuesday of each month. In the Tribe it has become known as "Patch Tuesday.
~ Mark Bowden
On impulse, I go round the small clearing, picking up all the trash, working with a burst of energy. There isn't a rubbish bin, but I gather it together and put it next to a large rock. My life might be a mess, but I can clear a patch of land, at least.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.
~ Jane Smiley
Q: How did the pirate stop smoking? A: He used the patch.
~ Scott McNeely
Patch? Whatever happens, I love you." I wanted to say more, those three words painfully inadequate for the way I felt about him. And at the same time, so simple and accurate, nothing else would do.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
But in truth no single disease leads to the end; the culprit is just the accumulated crumbling of one's bodily systems while medicine carries out its maintenance measures and patch jobs.
~ Atul Gawande
Dark Specter** - A frightening variety of Type Two ghost that manifests as a moving patch of darkness. Sometimes the apparition at the center of the darkness is dimly visible; at other times the black cloud is fluid and formless, perhaps shrinking to the size of a pulsing heart, or expanding at speed to engulf a room.
~ Jonathan Stroud
The grass did not live in order to be cut down, but in spite of cutting. Its nature was to grow and go to seed and grow again. He felt the rebellion in his own soul swell sympathetically whenever he stood on this small patch of earth. The world was meant to be wild, unbridled.
~ Erin Hart
Yes, Black Eye. I remember," said Snap. "He had a—" "Let me guess," Lucky interrupted. "A black patch of fur around one eye?" Snap cocked her head, perplexed. "How did you know?" Lucky sighed. "Never mind.
~ Erin Hunter
I shouldn't have been looking at lingerie. It naturally made me think about sexy things. Like kissing. Like Patch.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
I'm going to grab a cheeseburger," I told Patch. Want anything?" Nothing on the menu." I smiled. Why, Patch, are you flirting with me?
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
Amersham is well out of our manor, being in the County of Buckinghamshire and thus subject to the cool and professional attentions of the TVP, who are never referred to by their colleagues in the Met as the Chav Valley Police. So as we rode the train back up the line I called ahead and let them know we would be poking about, in full uniform, around their patch. They didn't seem bothered, but they did want a firm commitment that we'd warn them before doing anything drastic
~ Ben Aaronovitch
You have got to remember how dangerous the world is and that here is a mighty patch of danger and you have got to live through it.
~ Sebastian Barry
What was that book you were obsessed with? That one with the fallen angel named Patch?
~ Shannon Guymon
Yes, Black Eye. I remember," said Snap. "He had a—" "Let me guess," Lucky interrupted. "A black patch of fur around one eye?" Snap cocked her head, perplexed. "How did you know?
~ Erin Hunter
I wouldn't dream of commenting on Hilary Mantel as a novelist, frankly I'd be grateful if she stayed off my patch as a historian. She is intelligent, she is bright, she is an admirable writer. I happen to find her Tudor novels unreadable, but that's because I am a Tudor historian.
~ David Starkey
A shrug. I wanted to make sure you were taken care of, just in case. She had perhaps a moment, before the valet came. A moment in which to try and relate a truth so deeply ingrained, it came to her lips like second nature. Dar.. A breath. If anything ever happened to you, there wouldn't be enough money in the world to patch the hole it would leave in me.
~ Melissa Good
was headed for Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to have to say too often if you can possibly help it. Nebraska must be the most unexciting of all the states. Compared with it, Iowa is paradise. Iowa at least is fertile and green and has a hill. Nebraska is like a 75,000-square-mile bare patch.
~ Bill Bryson
A ripe watermelon will have a patch, creamy yellow in color, where the melon rested on the ground. If a watermelon has a white patch - or none at all - it hasnt fully matured.
~ Sohla El-Waylly