Best Repair Wisdom
301 Repair quotes by 266 unique authors
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I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.
— Steven Wright
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What are you going to do?,' he asked me. Me? Nothing. Something has just been broken inside me; you yourself will never be able to…
— Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
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said Jack matter-of-factly. "I'm a man. We're made to think more quickly." ...Aven swung her fist and clocked Jack square on the chin, knocking him…
— James A. Owen
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But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another…
— Haruki Murakami
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The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like…
— Maya Angelou
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It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits…
— John Updike
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And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as…
— Albert Einstein
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I mean, if you were to find a shattered mirror, find all the pieces, all the shards and all the tiny chips, and have whatever…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines,…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel. I broke something, Old Man. How badly is it broken? It's in a million little…
— James Frey
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What're quantum mechanics?" "I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose.
— Terry Pratchett
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love gave someone the power to break you. I'd been broken beyond repair.
— Stephenie Meyer
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I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.
— Suzanne Collins
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Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within…
— Saint Augustine
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I wronged him, Katra. Greatly. I had the entire world in my hand at one time and I didn’t know it. I let stupidity blind…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a privilege it is…
— Cecelia Ahern
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I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd told yourself was a Zen…
— Roland Merullo
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Lord Nicholas St. John was their only hope, and she had been on the roof when he arrived, for heaven's sake. Ladies did not go…
— Sarah MacLean
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..then you must say to her, ‘Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you...
— Elizabeth Kostova
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I was an empty shell. Like a vacant house―condemned―for months I'd been utterly uninhabitable. Now I was a little improved. The front room was in…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Recently Mr. Mawdsley’s donkey escaped from his stall, raced down the road, and somehow found his way into an enclosed pasture. Mr. Caird’s prized mare…
— Lisa Kleypas
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I'd been broken beyond repair.
— Stephenie Meyer
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A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am…
— Martha Gellhorn
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