Patches Quotes

• Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Time, Journey, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.185

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• We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

  Maya Angelou

  Ignorance, Being Alone, Thinking

  "Campus Life: Centenary; Love Is Message As Maya Angeloub Addresses 700", www.nytimes.com. March 11, 1990.

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• I always feel stupid giving advice since I've been married, what, a year? I can say this: Be in it for the long haul and just know there are going to be rough patches. No two people are the same, there are going to be areas where you just don't click

  Nick Lachey

  Stupid, Years, Two

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• Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but I do it anyway because it’s sterile and I like the taste.

  Rip Torn

  Dodgeball, Taste, Drink

  "Fictional character: Patches O'Houlihan". "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story", 2004.

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• If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.

  Rip Torn

  Underdog, Balls, Dodgeball

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• Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Zero, Cat, Hunting

  "An Hour with Kevin Mitnick, Part 2". Interview with Vince Barnes, www.esecurityplanet.com. April 7, 2004.

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• I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

  Jan Karon

  Real, Sacrifice, Risk

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• God does not patch up the old life,
  or make certain repairs on the old life;
  He gives a new life, through the new birth.

  Kathryn Kuhlman

  Giving, Doe, New Life

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• But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Ambition, Garden, Naps

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.119, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.

  Nelson Algren

  Real, Broken, Lovely

  Nelson Algren (1983). “Chicago, city on the make”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• My son and my daughter have both been an incredibly sustaining force, especially through this recent bad patch [of health]. So, I've been blessed and grateful for their company and for their assistance.

  Leonard Cohen

  Daughter, Blessed, Grateful

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• There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.

  Naomi Wolf

  Thinking, Feminist, Tests

  Naomi Wolf answers your questions, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2001.

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• Stubborn selfishness leads otherwise good people to fight over herds, patches of sand, and strippings of milk. All this results from what the Lord calls coveting "the drop," while neglecting the "more weighty matters." (D&C 117:8) Myopic selfishness magnifies a mess of pottage and makes thirty pieces of silver look like a treasure trove. In our intense acquisitiveness, we forget Him who once said, "What is property unto me?"

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Fighting, People, Selfishness

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• And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Littles, Faults

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.330

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• The hole and the patch should be commensurate.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Design, Holes

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”

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• I got a Cabbage Patch doll from my mom when they were impossible to get. She later told me that she had to buy it off the black market. That was the best!

  Jessica Capshaw

  Mom, Black, Dolls

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• My grandfather was a giant of a man ... When he walked, the earth shook. When he laughed, the birds fell out of the trees. His hair caught fire from the sun. His eyes were patches of sky.

  Eth Clifford

  Eye, Men, Sky

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• She sat down in a weed patch, her elbows on her knees, and kept her eyes on the small sterious world of the ground. In the shade and sun of grass blade forests, small living things had their metropolis.

  Nancy Price

  Life, Weed, Eye

  Nancy Price (1991). “Sleeping with the enemy”, Berkley Pub Group

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• No matter how many times I witness the miracle of someone having their sight restored, I'm still overwhelmed with emotion. When the eye patch comes off just 24 hours after surgery and you see that smile light up the room, you are witnessing a life being transformed.

  Gabi Hollows

  Motivation, Eye, Sight

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• One constant in a world of variables - a man alone in the evening in his patch of vegetables. and all the things he takes down with him there, where the easement runs along the back fence.

  Bruce Dawe

  Running, Men, Garden

  Bruce Dawe (1971). “Condolences of the season: selected poems”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.

  Charles Churchill

  Purses, Firsts, Gypsy

  Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1844). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.134, London : W. Pickering

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• Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted in the spring died. The patch of grass in front of the house abandoned its ambitions to become a lawn and turned into the dirty yellow of poor straw. The earth shrank, revealing its knuckles and bones, rocks and roots that had been invisible before.

  Peter Mayle

  Spring, Rain, Dirty

  Peter Mayle (2001). “Toujours Provence”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• After age 70, it's patch, patch, patch.

  James Stewart

  Health, Age

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• Gather the shards of your courage. Patch together what resolve you can. We'll find this thing - and kill it.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Battle, Together

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• It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor. Man is too quick at forming conclusions. Let him but indistinctly see a thing, or even be undecided as to whether he does actually see it and he will then and there set himself to theorizing, and build immense castles of conjecture on a foundation, of whose existence he is by no means certain.

  Edward E. Barnard

  Mean, Men, Clouds

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