A Quote by Ivy Compton-Burnett

Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

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Magnifying Matter Mend Way

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Ivy Compton-Burnett
English - Novelist
June 5, 1884 - August 27, 1969

Blessed are the powers that grant me magic. I promise to use their gift well. To help mend my world. To help mend all worlds. And should I forget to mend, Should I refuse to mend, Still I will remember To do no harm.

Janni Lee Simner

There are hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman.

Kate DiCamillo

As humans, we've all experienced some level of pain. Acting is just a matter of accessing and magnifying these emotions.

Gustaf Skarsgard

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

James Fenimore Cooper

Why do you ever mend your clothes, unless that, wearing them, you may mend your ways. Let us sing.

Henry David Thoreau

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

William Penn

Bid the dishonest man mend himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest.

William Shakespeare

Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.

Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman. Such was the fate of Chiaroscuro. His heart was broken. Picking up the spoon and placing it on his head, speaking of revenge, these things helped him to put his heart together again. But it was, alas, put together wrong.

Kate DiCamillo

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.

D. A. Pennebaker

I don't despise you for what you allowed to happen to me. I despise you because when I was released, you refused to be found and I needed you more than anything in my life. Not to mend my broken bones, Arjuro. I needed my brother to mend my broken spirit.