Fracture Quotes - Page 3

• I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Sports, Stress

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• I may venture to say, loosely, that in Judo there is a sort of counter for every twist, wrench, pull, push or bend. Only the Judo expert does not oppose such movements at all. No, he yields to them. But he does much more than yield to them. He aids them with a wicked sleight that causes the assailant to put out his own shoulder, to fracture his own arm, or in a desparate case, even to break his own neck or back.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Yield, Wicked, Experts

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• 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

  Doctors, Two, Rose

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• She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Powerful, Down And, Sometimes

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.206, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Nobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it's those hours that make us what we are. We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trails, or fracture by a permanent, damning fault line.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Strong, Looks, Lines

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Jun 26, 2014

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• The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity of human life enables us to contemplate it without dismay. It is not only in the great mountain ranges that the traces of this process are found. Great segments of the earth's crust have sunk hundreds, in some cases, even thousands, of feet deep, and not the slightest inequality of the surface remains to indicate the fracture; the different nature of the rocks and the discoveries made in mining alone reveal its presence. Time has levelled all.

  Eduard Suess

  Life, Science, Mountain Ranges

  Eduard Suess (1904). “The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde)”

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• 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

  Country, People, Connections

  "Coffee talk: Katie Couric interviews Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz tonight". Interview with Katie Couric, latimesblogs.latimes.com. December 8, 2008.

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• 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

  Quality, Amy, Stuff

  "Chuck Palahniuk: 'I wrote the book while my mother was dying of cancer'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. September 03, 2011.

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• It's important to understand that calcium isn't just about what you eat; it's also about what you keep. Acidic animal products mine minerals like potassium, magnesium and calcium from our bodies. In fact, the countries that consume the most dairy have the highest rates of hip fracture and osteoporosis.

  Sharon Gannon

  Country, Animal, Osteoporosis

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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