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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Amid the moon and the stars, amid the clouds of the night, amid the hills which bordered on the sky with their magnificent silhouette of pointed cedars, amid the speckled patches of the moon, amid the temple buildings that emerged sparkling white out of the surrounding darkness - amid all this, I was intoxicated by the pellucid beauty of Uiko's treachery.

  Yukio Mishima

  Stars, Moon, Night

  Yukio Mishima (2011). “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion”, p.29, Tuttle Publishing

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• We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Missing, Magic

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• And so there would always be more to remember that could no longer be seen...our history is always returning to a little patch of weeds and saplings with an old chimney sticking up by itself...and here I look ahead to the resting of my case: I love the house that belonged to the chimney, holding it bright in memory, and love the saplings and the weeds.

  Wendell Berry

  Weed, Memories, House

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• What was up with class today? It was watered-down porn. He practically had you and Patch on top of your lab table, horizontal, minus your clothes, doing the Big Deed.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Class, Clothes, Deeds

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling ,and sewn with rebus threads.Most of the time , the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on .

  Gregory David Roberts

  Struggle, Cutting, Past

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.765, Macmillan

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• Thalia had been turned into a pine tree when she was 12. Me... well, i was doing my best not to follow her example. I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if i were ever in the verge of death—plankton, maybe. Or a floating patch of kelp.

  Rick Riordan

  Tree, Might, Example

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• The brain "fills in" the missing information from the blind spot. Notice what you see in the location of the dot when it's in your blind spot. When the dot disappears, you do not perceive a hole of whiteness or blackness in its place; instead your brain invents a patch of the background pattern. Your brain, with no information from that particular spot in visual space, fills in with the patterns around it. You're not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

  David Eagleman

  Blind Spots, Space, Missing

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• Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.

  Alice Sebold

  Ruth, Medical, Patch Up

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• Patch was dressed in the usual: black shirt, black jeans and a thin silver necklace that flashed against his dark complexion. His sleeves were pushed up his forearms, and I could see his muscles working as he punched buttons. He was tall and lean and hard, and I wouldn't have been surprised if under his clothes he bore several scars, souvenirs from street fights and other reckless behavior. Not that I wanted a look under his clothes.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Fighting, Dark, Clothes

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• I trailed off.Patch leaned lazily against the counter. Dark hair flipped out from under his ball cap. A smile tugged at his mouth. My thoughts dissolved and just like that, a new thought broke the surface of my mind. I wanted to kiss him. Right now.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Dark, Kissing, Hair

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• For the first time all day I felt safe. Except that Patch had cornered me in a dark tunnel and was possibly stalking me. Maybe not so safe.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Dark, Stalking Me, Tunnels

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2009). “Hush, Hush”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• I looked to the window. Patch was gone, but a single black feather was pressed to the outer pane, held in place by last night's rain. Or Angel Magic

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Rain, Angel, Night

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• Patch’s eyes were black orbs. Taking in everything and giving away nothing.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Giving, Black

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2014). “Hush, Hush Parts 1 & 2: includes Hush, Hush and Crescendo”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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