Fixing Quotes

• I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

  Coco Chanel

  Destiny, House, Serendipity

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• That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Ties, Matter, Hats

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• The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Usa, Two, Iran

  "Why Iran's Top Leaders Believe That the End of Days Has Come" by Joel C. Rosenberg, www.foxnews.com. November 7, 2011.

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• Sometimes God lets you be in a situation that only He can fix so that you can see that He is the One who fixes it. Rest. He's got it.

  Tony Evans

  God, Christian, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Tony Evans from Jun 07, 2012

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• Do not try to excuse your faults; try to correct them

  John Bosco

  Imperfection, Catholic, Trying

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• God doesn't break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.

  Bob Goff

  God, Faith, Christian

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Jul 17, 2013

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• That which is created in a relationship can be fixed in a relationship.

  Murray Bowen

  Relationship, Creating, Fixed

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• There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. Every part of your life has unfolded just right. And so - now - knowing all that you know from where you now stand, now what do you want? The answers are now coming forth to you. Go forth in joy, and get on with it.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Life, Regret

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• I still get very high and very low in life. Daily. But I've finally accepted the fact that sensitive is just how I was made, that I don't have to hide it and I don't have to fix it. I'm not broken.

  Glennon Melton

  Inspirational, Life, Acceptance

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• At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.

  Kevin Garnett

  Responsibility, Frustration, Player

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• A real man don't call the plumbers. If he gonna call himself a man, he needs to know how to fix it, on the spot

  Phil Robertson

  Real, Men, Dynasty

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• I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Life, Relationship, Hope

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• Most people don't remember names, for the simple reason that they don't take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Time, Memories

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.73, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it?

  Gordon Bethune

  Airplane, Self Motivation, Want

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• you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Letting Go, Aggravation, Done

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• Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them

  Pat Summitt

  Strength, Volleyball, Experience

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• And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex sugars and foods, changes colors with the seasons, and self-replicates. and then why don't we knock that down and write on it?

  William McDonough

  Nature, Food, Writing

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• You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Responsibility, Childhood, Adults

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• I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing.

  Barack Obama

  Generations, Climate Change, Planets

  Remarks by the President on Climate Change, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

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• The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Art, Prayer, Determined

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• Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.

  Erica Jong

  Giving, Way, Kind

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from May 02, 2016

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• I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

  Joichi Ito

  Broken Heart, Japan, Democracy

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• There is no small degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and ill-will: a word--a look, which at one time would make no impression, at another time wounds the heart, and, like a shaft flying with the wind, pierces deep, which, with its own natural force, would scarce have reached the object aimed at.

  Laurence Sterne

  Heart, Wind, Ill Will

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)”, p.532, Delphi Classics

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• Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.

  Hanna Rosin

  Taken, Independent, House

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• You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines,
  all this leprous day and then more vodka,
  more soda and the pond forgiving our bodies,
  the pond sucking out the throb.

  Anne Sexton

  Cutting, Forgiving, Ponds

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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