Patchwork Quotes - Page 2

• We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

  Charles Dickens

  Knowing, Odds, Mind

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.267

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• You're not the only piece of patchwork birds can pull worms from.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Bird, Pieces, Worms

  Twitter post from Dec 28, 2014

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• Days I enjoy are days when nothing happens, When I have no engagements written on my block, When no one comes to disturb my inward peace, When no one comes to take me away from myself And turn me into a patchwork, a jig-saw puzzle, A broken mirror that once gave a whole reflection, Being so contrived that it takes too long a time To get myself back to myself when they have gone.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Block, Reflection, Mirrors

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• I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.

  Sara Zarr

  Character, Research, Might

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• People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you.

  Jesse Owens

  Success, Determination, People

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• When you look at how American national freight systems are connected, it's a bit of a patchwork. When you look at how even road systems and rail systems work across state lines, it's a bit of a patchwork.

  Anthony Foxx

  Looks, Lines, States

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Intelligent, Matter

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Steven M. Cahn (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939”, p.109, SIU Press

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• A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren.

  Elizabeth May

  Children, Target, Defeat

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