The frequency of disastrous consequences in compound fracture, contrasted with the complete immunity from danger to life or limb in simple fracture,… — Joseph Lister Copy Share Image
A man once jumped from the top floor of a burning house in which many members of his family had already perished.… — Isaac Deutscher Copy Share Image
The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
When you go out on a limb, that's when you really know you're living — Robin Quivers Copy Share Image
Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could. — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
The third order, called Corinthian, is an imitation of the slenderness of a maiden; for the outlines and limbs of maidens, being… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
When the invasion began, the British public was called upon to 'support' troops sent illegally and undemocratically to kill people with whom… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Every one says: 'Listen, I'd love to reinvest. I'd love to hire people. But I have no idea what this healthcare bill… — Kristi Noem Copy Share Image
I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet ... the evenings in late… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like birds of a feather,… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
Brother woke just after midnight and he didn't make a sound, and as he climbed from out of bed with severed rings… — Radical Face Copy Share Image
O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb… — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought,… — Peter Dobereiner Copy Share Image
Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and rais’d in Ocean’s pearly caves First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility?… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
