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Quotes About Fracture

Nope. It's an axiom of the trade: When a moving head hits a fixed object hard enough, you get a crack; when a moving object hits a fixed head you get a depressed fracture.
~ Aaron Elkins
The fracture of pencil still useful, but the fracture of soul, we couldn't use it, Mister.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
That sensation of things-falling-away. Once the ice begins to crack, it will happen swiftly.   She
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I think I broke a rib
~ Joyce Milton
The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel. I broke something, Old Man. How badly is it broken? It's in a million little pieces. I'm afraid I can't help you. Why? There's nothing you can do. Why? It can't be fixed. Why? It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces.
~ James Frey
I've broken my ankle in two spots. Fortunately, it was a relatively clean break, so it's remained in position. The bone has remained in position. I don't require surgery. I will have to rest it, though. It's a broken ankle.
~ Neville
noblesse parlementaire par cinq départements qui avaient groupé leurs vois sur son nom. Ainsi, la Montagne paraissait, le 29 mai 1849, étant donné les conflits inévitables entre les différentes fractions monarchistes et entre l'ensemble du parti de l'ordre et Bonaparte, avoir pour elle tous les éléments de succès. Quinze jours plus tard, elle avait tout perdu, y compris l'honneur.
~ Karl Marx
If there isn't, the skull can literally burst, fracturing the cranium into numerous pieces, each about the size of a quarter.
~ William M. Bass
I had a backpack with our water supplies and tossed in a crab net I'd found in the camp closet, just in case I needed to capture that bird. Or tie off a compound fracture. It could swing either way.
~ Jana Deleon
Dominance can be a tempration to division. "There are so many of us, we can afford to fight amongst ourselves.
~ Richard Brookhiser
Things come apart much easier than they go together.
~ William Wharton
For, after he had affectionately embraced her, so affectionately that she was sure that one of her tendons had snapped..
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
The dawn was breaking the bones of your heart like twigs.
~ Richard Siken
Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it. He doesn't hear the impact, can't smell the blood.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
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
I didn't fracture my neck, I didn't break it, but technically it's actually worse. The ligament holding the C2 ruptured, so my disc hit my spinal cord.
~ Tyson Kidd
In yet another political fracas, Coleman received a caning that left him paralyzed from the waist down.
~ Ron Chernow
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again
~ Lewis Carroll
See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
~ Sylvia Plath
Life cracked like ice!
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Like all other injuries, a fracture produced a current of injury, in this case derived from the nerves in and around the periosteum.* At the same time, the bone generated its own current piezoelectrically due to residual stress in the mangled apatite-collagen matrix. These signals combined to stimulate the cells that formed new bone.
~ Robert O. Becker
While Washington's statement will be seen by most today as an assumption of "white supremacism" and "xenophobia," in fact, it contains an important kernel of wisdom: without some point of unity, a common polity will fracture and dissolve. Today, we see this happening before our very eyes.
~ Robert Spencer
Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living among the shattered pieces.
~ Robin Hobb