Fracture Quotes

• The worst injury I ever had was a stress fracture from running.

  Grete Waitz

  Running, Stress, Injury

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• Fractures well cured make us more strong.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Strong, Motivation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1832-1834”

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• You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.

  Carrie Jones

  Together, Stronger, Glue

  Carrie Jones (2011). “Entice”, p.100, A&C Black

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• Big breaks come from small fractures.

  John Kapelos

  Break, Bigs

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• You look closely enough, you'll find that everything has a weak spot where it can break, sooner or later.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Looks, Weak Spots, Enough

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• Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain

  Bruce Lee

  Pain, Fighting, Pride

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.192, Tuttle Publishing

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• Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our character usually hidden from public view.

  Sue Grafton

  Character, Views, Water

  Sue Grafton (1992). “"I" is for Innocent”, p.208, Macmillan

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• Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

  Stephen Hunt

  Broken, Sopranos, Imitation

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• Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Two, Soul, Together

  Lisa Kleypas (2011). “The Devil In Winter: Number 3 in series”, p.90, Hachette UK

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• Every you, every me. Fractals. Fractures.

  David Levithan

  Fractals

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.187, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Forgiveness, Spiritual

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• The fracture of pencil still useful, but the fracture of soul, we couldn't use it, Mister.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Soul, Use, Stills

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• Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!!

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Pain, Fighting

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.192, Tuttle Publishing

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• 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

  Believe, Writing, Creativity

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• The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

  Philip Roth

  Love, Fall, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Jan 22, 2017

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• 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

  Character, Names, Tree

  Thomas Paine, John Dos Passos (2008). “The Essential Thomas Paine”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• Learning can cause social fracture. Your people start expressing themselves.

  Richard Rodriguez

  People, Causes, Social

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• 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

  Teacher, Father, Teaching

  Robert Burns (1819). “The Prose Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Letters and Correspondence, Literary and Critical, and Amatory Epistles Including Letters to Clarinda, &c., &c”, p.215

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• 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

  Soul, Crisis, Protect

  Jeff Vandermeer (2007). “City of Saints and Madmen”, p.141, Spectra

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• I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.

  John Major

  Thinking, Unions, Dropping

  "The Andrew Marr Show", news.bbc.co.uk. October 09, 2011.

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• 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

  Party, Thinking, Years

  "A Look At Where Bernie Sanders' Movement Goes From Here". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 30, 2016.

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• You can get so confused that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place.

  Dr. Seuss

  Confused, Race, Space

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• Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.

  William Morris Hunt

  Blue, Eyelashes, Long

  William Morris Hunt (1878). “W.M. Hunt's Talks about Art: With a Letter from J.E. Millais”

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• I regard belief as a form of brain damage.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Brain, Religion, Damage

  "Your Religious Upbringing Doesn't Make Your Religion True or False" by Dan Delzell, www.christianpost.com. December 6, 2015.

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• I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Dream, Fists, Language

  "The New Gods". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1969.

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