Top 60 Fracture Quotes
#1. This is a book about fracture. About the experiences that make up a life. About the pieces of me.
Delving into naked emotion is a terrifying proposition. Digging into our souls to look for answers that may not be there is a ledge most of us avoid.
And yet, here I am.
Rachel Thompson
#2. I wanted to capture those final, most intense moments before telling someone you love them. People talk about feeling 'whole' when they fall in love, but for me there's always an uncomfortable fracture of the self that has to happen first.
Karyna McGlynn
#3. Sinn Fein is the only political party on this island working to end that fracture in their nation and to achieving the Republic set out in the proclamation.
Martin McGuinness
#4. I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.
John Major
#5. Rose Tyler: Can't you come through properly?
The Doctor: Then the whole thing would fracture. The two universes would collapse.
Rose Tyler: So?
Russell T. Davies
#6. The environment we create can help heal us or fracture us. This is true not just for buildings and landscapes but also for interactions and relationships.
Sharon Salzberg
#7. It astonishes me already when I compare my condition today with what it was a month ago. Before that I knew well enough one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too ...
Vincent Van Gogh
#8. I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.
Emil Cioran
#9. When we fracture our potential for united action and divide ourselves along social, political, economic, or religious lines, we diminish our power.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#10. Learning can cause social fracture. Your people start expressing themselves.
Richard Rodriguez
#11. Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people's lives.
John C. Maxwell
#12. The lights have been dimmed and the window is awash in the blackness and he can see a hairline fracture of dawn against the horizon.
Dominic Smith
#14. An inordinate love of ritual can be harmful to the soul, unless, of course, in times of great crisis, when ritual can protect the soul from fracture.
Jeff VanderMeer
#15. Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I've forgotten it. Fracture.
Anthony Hopkins
#16. The worst injury I ever had was a stress fracture from running.
Grete Waitz
#17. The fracture of pencil still useful, but the fracture of soul,
we couldn't use it, Mister.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
#18. I played with a fracture in my foot for seven months without knowing it.
Colin Cooper
#19. The thing was, Ronan knew what a face looked like, just before it was about to break. He'd seen it in the mirror often enough. Adam had fracture lines all over him.
Maggie Stiefvater
#20. When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people supply every need from royal blue Quink to a dazzling variety of portable hard drives.
Hilary Mantel
#21. In one study of ten countries,14 a higher consumption of calcium was associated with a higher - not lower - risk of bone fracture (Chart 10.3
T. Colin Campbell
#22. Bill Walton is incredible. If you drop a toothpick on his foot, he'll have a stress fracture.
Stan Albeck
#23. God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.
Robert Burns
#24. Yes, yes. I've heard the argument. If we all lived as long as you, we'd be in crisis. Population explosion. The stability of our society would fracture. Chaos. Anarchy. And perhaps there's a shred of truth in that.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#25. Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#26. I've always loved shows that combine both approaches - that have a mythology and a set of characters, whose stories develop and change, and where the relationships evolve and fracture.
Jonathan Nolan
#27. If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.
Chuck Palahniuk
#28. Scarily, football helmets, which do a fine job of protecting against scalp laceration and skull fracture, do little to prevent concussions and may even exacerbate them, since even as the brain is rattling around inside the skull, the head is rattling around inside the helmet.
Jeffrey Kluger
#29. She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.
Salman Rushdie
#30. When I started training, I just started running every day, which you shouldn't do. I learned that lesson the hard way by getting a stress fracture.
Sophia Bush
#31. Promise people with the hope of not letting any fracture misalign you from fulfilling those promises. That gives you a recommendable brand.
Israelmore Ayivor
#32. consider the common practice of setting up regularly occurring meetings for projects. These meetings tend to pile up and fracture schedules to the point where sustained focus during the day becomes impossible. Why do they persist? They're easier.
Cal Newport
#33. Post-9/11, we saw an immediate uptick in the amount of people in our stores, all over the country. People wanted that human connection. We are not going to fracture the Starbucks experience.
Howard Schultz
#34. Federal regulations forbid delaying inspections for fracture-critical bridges like the fallen Minneapolis bridge - the kind with a lack of redundancy in design, so that a single failure in a load-bearing part can cause the entire bridge to collapse.
Bill Dedman
#35. You get a compound fracture in Colorado where I live, and you can probably be in a hospital within a matter of hours, certainly within a day.
Jon Krakauer
#36. What I would say is I've only had one injury in my NBA career that was probably was because my core wasn't strong enough, when I had a stress fracture in my back.
Andrew Bogut
#37. So her missing person's poster features a girl with long hair and dreamy eyes that don't see the fracture coming.
Helen Oyeyemi
#38. I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.
Khaled Hosseini
#39. Even if you were to start drinking milk during adolescence in an attempt to bolster peak bone mass, it probably wouldn't reduce your chances of fracture later in life.
Michael Greger
#40. Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war?
Daniel Berrigan
#41. But swan, float lightly because you are a swan, because by the exquisite curve of your neck the gods gave you some special favor, and even though you fracture it running against some man-made bridge, it healed and you sailed onward.
F. Scott Fitzgerald to his wife Zelda.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#42. Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read in it full grown characters.
Thomas Paine
#43. I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity, the atrophy of imagination. I have opinions but no Belief System (B.S.)
Robert Anton Wilson
#44. Zookeeper foible #1: Tendency to not equate fur and scale with fracture and scar.
Wendy Beck
#45. Something molten rushed through her, pouring over every crack and fracture still left gaping and open. Not to hurt or mar - but to weld.
To forge.
Sarah J. Maas
#46. How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the toad bears a jewel in its forehead, and the meaning of moments passes like the breeze that scarcely ruffles the leaf of the willow.
Robert Penn Warren
#47. You are caught between all that was and all that must be. You feel lost. Mark my words: as soon as the bones mend, you will forget about the fracture.
Haruki Murakami
#48. I do think that we may be looking at a period in the next few years where the two-party system will fracture.
Jonathan Tasini
#49. The fractured self is not something that needs to be rectified fixed and made whole; by freeing thought of the blinkers of representation, the space of fracture, of multiplicity (as opposed to unity) becomes a powerful place and one from which the most radical ideas can emerge.
Ria Banerjee
#50. Seated at table -
no need for the fracture
of the room's silence; noiselessly
they conversed.
R.S. Thomas
#51. But, I was lead to believe that loneliness was only a minor fracture of why I wanted to be his.
Valerie King
#52. Their screams would echo through the house and reverberate against my eardrums until my mind would fracture. Years went by and with each fracture; I lost a piece of my soul until I became lost and empty inside.
J.D. Stroube
#53. There will never again be a moment where I look at you and don't remember how amazing it feels to be inside you. Do you understand that my body is going to crave you every time I see you?" Gracelyn merely nodded. Her voice failed her.
Jessica Jayne
#54. You look closely enough, you'll find that everything has a weak spot where it can break, sooner or later.
Anthony Hopkins
#55. Healing restores to wholeness that which has been injured or fragmented.
Sharon Weil
#57. Souls aren't discrete units - or even units at all. They're more like reflections of consciousness in a fractured mirror.
Colleen Chen
#59. I wanted to rewind. Go back. Tell Decker to take the long way around. Go back even further. Ask Decker to stay inside with me. I would have told him something important, and it would've mattered. Before all this, it would've mattered.
Megan Miranda
#60. My brain scrambled to make room for the existene of these people. Grandparents I'd never known. They went from hypothetical, empty memories to blurry, unformed shapes in my head. Dead one second, alive the next.
Kind of like me.
Megan Miranda
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