Quotes with repair

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  • John F. Kennedy The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
    Second State of the Union Address, 11-01-1962
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Jeremy Collier 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.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Billy Mays Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for you.
    Billy Mays
    American television direct-response advertisement salesperson (1958 - 2009)
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  • Bruno Dumont 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
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Campbell Brown It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Frederick Douglass It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
    Frederick Douglass
    African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895)
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  • J. C. Macaulay It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.
    J. C. Macaulay
    American clergyman and author (1900 - )
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  • John Updike 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 the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Richard Whately It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • George Washington Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Billy Connolly Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
    Billy Connolly: The Authorized Version (Pan Books, 1976) by Duncan Campbell
    Billy Connolly
    Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, actor (1942 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Camille Paglia The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Douglas Adams The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Conor Cruise O'Brien The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.
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  • Frank A. Clark There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.
    Frank A. Clark
    American politician
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