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  • Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.

    Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.41, Anchor
  • A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • If you look globally you see a patchwork of jurisdictions (nations, states, provinces, cities) that have taken aggressive action on climate change, and a patchwork of jurisdictions that have not. These various policies reflect the politics of each jurisdiction and the values of its citizens.

    Taken   Cities   Citizens  
    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.

    Games   Play   Moments  
    Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.244, Stanford University Press
  • 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.

    Knowing   Odds   Mind  
    Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.267
  • You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules.

    Quilts   Crazy   Thinking  
    Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.253, Macmillan
  • We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. And there is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others

    Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.8, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.

    First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009
  • Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way they found each other.

    Quilts   Reality   Cells  
  • There is one kind of charity common enough among us... It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged, feeds the poor, and heals the sick. I am far from decrying the noble spirit which seeks to help a poor or suffering fellow being... [However] what advances a nation or a community is not so much to prop up its weakest and most helpless members, but to lift up the best and the most gifted, so as to make them of the greatest service to the country.

    Country   Clothes   Sick  
  • Much like a patchwork quilt, inspiration that stirs and motivates me is made of many things.

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

    Bird   Pieces   Patchwork  
    Twitter post from Dec 28, 2014
  • The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

  • Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail, but I am not one of them. My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: The parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seemed to have vanished completely.

    "Smoke and Mirrors". Book by Neil Gaiman, October, 1998.
  • When we are young, we think life will be like a supo: one fabric, one weave, one grand design. But in truth, life turns out to be more like the patchwork cloths-bits and pieces, odds and ends-people, places, things we never expected, never wanted, perhaps.

    Thinking   Odds   People  
    Alan Brennert (2009). “Honolulu”, p.11, Macmillan
  • We continue to go from crisis to crisis, whether it is electricity or whether it is gas prices. We need comprehensive solutions, not patchwork crisis management. We wouldn't be in this situation today if Senate Democrats weren't holding up the national energy plan that the president proposed back in May of 2001.

    President   May   Today  
    "White House: Bush 'disappointed' in OPEC" by Dana Bash and Jennifer Yuille, www.cnn.com. May 6, 2004.
  • People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you.

  • My adult life has been a patchwork of projects, most of which were fleeting fancies of overreaching vision. I tend to seize on things, only to abandon them due to a lack of time, talent or inclination.

    Vision   Fancy   Adults  
    Susan Wiggs (2011). “The Goodbye Quilt”, p.9, MIRA
  • There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

    Michel De Montaigne, James B Atkinson, David Sices (2012). “Selected Essays: With La Boetie's Discourse on Voluntary Servitude”, p.12, Hackett Publishing
  • London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable in its sprawling confusion.

    Joseph Fort Newton (1922). “Preaching in London: A Diary of Anglo-American Friendship”
  • In brief, we have no explicit family policy but instead have a haphazard patchwork of institutions and programs designed mostly under crisis conditions, whether the crisis is national in scope (such as a recession ) or personal (such as a break-up of a particular family).

    Family   Broken   Program  
    Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
  • We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.

    Life   Change   Joy  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”
  • 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.

    Looks   Lines   States  
    Source: www.politico.com
  • To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history--with a society that provides opportunities for all.

  • So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything.

    Quilts   Hands   Color  
    Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.229, Pan Macmillan
  • A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren.

  • 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.

  • Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble and grand. The word my grandfather uses is comfort. So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything. Give no story. Make no claim. Where you can live at the edge of your skin for as long as you wish.

    Quilts   Humble   Hands  
    Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.229, Pan Macmillan
  • It is foolish to be afraid of death. Just think. No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living.

    Death   Thinking   Body  
  • It's actually kind of nice to have a 'patchwork family.'

    Nice   Kind   Patchwork  
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