73 Repair Quotes for You to Enjoy

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass

Broken Strong Men Build Easier Repair Than Children

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. John F. Kennedy

Time Roof Sun Repair Shining

The Church is not an automobile showroom - a place to put ourselves on display so that others can admire our spirituality, capacity, or prosperity. It is more like a service center, where vehicles in need of repair come for maintenance and rehabilitation. Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Service Prosperity Church Spirituality Others Our Ourselves Admire More Put Vehicles Maintenance Come Like Repair Where Automobile Center Place Capacity Rehabilitation Display Need

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life Man Rest Master Furnish Fine He Days House Builds Repair His Task Show Keep Now Watch

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. Chinua Achebe

Sometimes Year Ten Take Repair Years Done Twenty Damage

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character Change Circumstances Repair Defect

This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it. Christopher Alexander

Nature You World Build Isolation Says Must Web More Takes Merely Make Within Around Becomes Repair Cannot Place Which View Whole Fundamental Larger Thing Coherent

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. Stephen King

Education War Care Responsibility National Young Assume Sick Responsibilities Charitable Failing Repair Repayment Debts America Staggering Infrastructure Poor

We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness. A. S. Byatt

Kindness Sex Feelings Deferred Respecting About Mortality Talk Permanently Repair Maybe Them Bodies Decoration Bodily Gratification Thing Violation

Restorative justice is not a replacement of retributive justice, but a complement. It seeks the rehabilitation of the wrongdoer and the repair of the victim's injury. Lewis B. Smedes

Justice Victim Complement Seeks Repair Replacement Rehabilitation Injury

Aging is basically the build-up of error: error at the genetic level, error at the cellular level. Cells normally repair themselves; that's why you heal when you get a cut. But even the mechanism of repair eventually falls apart. Michio Kaku

A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it does injury to a nation or an individual, it is always supposed to be ready and willing to repair it. Roger B. Taney

Justice Mistake Nation Willing Individual Supposed Principles Does Ready Always Repair Oversight Sovereignty Act Injury

Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant. Saint Basil

Light Fall Repentance Others Neglect Virtues Slight Faults Strive Rather Remain Attain Most Make Although Greater Repair Quick Commit May Grievous Lesser Large Many Even Large Number Number

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. William Butler Yeats

Using medicine in the service of cosmesis is generally bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for democracy. The only exceptions are when we know the intervention will actually reduce suffering, as with a primary cleft lip repair. Alice Dreger

Service Democracy Suffering Will Doctors Medicine Intervention Bad Only Exceptions Generally Primary Know Reduce Repair Lip Patients Using Actually

My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the less a machine, and it can be subjected to maintenance and repair in the same way as a simple machine, like a car. Aubrey de Grey

Complicated Simple Car Approach Our Way Machine Maintenance Like Principle None Repair Subjected Very Same Straightforward Body Less Start

I don't watch my own past films: when I watch them, I find they don't work very well, because I have changed. If I continue to make films, in fact, it is because I always want to repair my films. My inner rhythm has changed; I have changed. I have changed my way to film. Bruno Dumont

None of us are going to fix governance; it may just be beyond repair. But you can fix capitalism. And the reason you can fix capitalism - It is inherently numerical, and as a result, it is inherently objective. It can be done objectively. Chamath Palihapitiya

You Capitalism Result Just Be Objective Objectively Beyond None Repair Governance Fix Done Going May Just Us Inherently Reason Numerical

Doing what we can to repair the world was instilled in me from an early age. I will never forget my siblings and me knitting squares for blankets to be sent to the troops during World War II. This was an inspiration from my mother. Charles Bronfman

War Me Age World Mother Will Troops Inspiration Blankets Never Never Forget Instilled Knitting Repair Doing Squares Forget Sent Early Early Age World War World War II Sibling

My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I have no talent for cooking. I was always out in the garage with my dad. I have a tool belt. I'm a repair chick. Cheryl Ladd

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