Top 62 Oncoming Quotes
#1. I can't stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#2. Every scandal has its road kill: the pedestrians who stumble into the headlights of the oncoming 18-wheeler.
Bill Dedman
#3. His own wand trembled in his hand, and he almost welcomed the oncoming oblivion, the promise of nothing, of no feeling.
J.K. Rowling
#4. The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.
Steve Aylett
#5. Don't be crushed under the oncoming tide of adversity that moves in to test your faith. Make sure that your foundation is built on the solid rock of Jesus Christ. Be ready for the storms of life and move forward in a confidence that cannot be shaken by the strong winds of hardship.
Calvin W. Allison
#6. F we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train.
Robert Lowell
#7. Like many animals, wild ponies can sense a drop in barometric pressure. When a storm threatens, they know to seek shelter in hilly areas and huddle together with their rumps facing the oncoming wind.
Diane Ackerman
#8. The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.
Paul Dickson
#9. I looked at her without replying. For me it had been more like being a passenger in a car that was going out of control. For three months we'd been swerving across the road, missing light poles and oncoming vehicles. Now the car was under control again,
Jane Smiley
#10. When something large and oncoming passed, the windshield's big rectangle was for a moment incandesced and opaque with water, which the wipers heaved mightily to displace.
David Foster Wallace
#11. For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write.
Marya Hornbacher
#12. Not bragging too much, but I had to be careful never to smile while I drove: It had the capacity to blind oncoming traffic.
Rick Yancey
#13. Django: "Would you buy it if I told you that it's always darkest before the dawn? Or that there's a light at the end of the tunnel? Course there's always a possibility that it's an oncoming train. But still.
Zoey Dean
#14. Christopher Tietjens is a sad sorry bastard who just refuses to get out of the way on the oncoming train of change.
Ada Maria Soto
#15. The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It's going to affect all of you in the same way the Second World War consumed people of my parent's generation.
Bill Nye
#17. All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.
Naveen Jain
#18. In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure to kill the evil spirits who are pursuing you, and all the rest of your life you will have good luck.
Robertson Davies
#19. Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.
Yann Martel
#20. When I look at the faces of turning drivers, I mostly see them looking in the direction of oncoming motorists rather than at the people they're about to turn into.
Robert James Thomson
#21. He disdains such cowardly acts as looking in wing mirrors or using his indicators. His Ambassador is his chariot, his klaxon his sword. Weaving into the oncoming traffic, playing 'chicken' with the other taxis, Balvinder Singh is a Raja of the Road.
William Dalrymple
#22. The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block.
Andre Maurois
#23. The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.
Robert Lowell
#24. This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.
Terry Pratchett
#25. If she'd thought the oncoming storm outside was crazy, it was nothing compared to what happened between her and Finn every time they so much as looked at each other.
Jill Shalvis
#26. I think women are great drivers. To be honest, I've only been in one car accident - one of my best friends, his wife was driving. She went into oncoming traffic, our car flipped almost four times. I didn't even have time to put on a seat belt, because they'd just picked me up.
Dominic Cooper
#27. Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements while it lasted.
James Connolly
#28. The vast silence of Buddha overtakes
and overrules the oncoming roar
of tragic life that fills alleys and avenues;
it blocks the way of pedicabs, police, convoys.
Denise Levertov
#29. There was no light at the end of the tunnel
or if there was, it was an oncoming train.
Terry Pratchett
#30. Is it a bad sign when someone asks you about the person your dating and a tear falls from your eye as you leap into oncoming traffic?
Dov Davidoff
#31. You can always avert throwing yourself in front of an oncoming train. There is something that just pulls you away - and it has pulled me away, because I'm not dead yet - just at the brink of impact. Sometimes I have been really grazed by that train.
Elizabeth Taylor
#33. We are angered even by the full acceptance of our humiliating confessions - how much more by hearing in hard distinct syllables from the lips of a near observer, those confused murmurs which we try to call morbid, and strive against as if they were the oncoming of numbness!
George Eliot
#34. Kids are supposed to relax on vacations, and enjoy themselves, not sitting in the back seat of a car making peace with death and gripping a rosary because Mom is playing chicken with oncoming cars in the mountains.
Joshua David Swift
#35. Placing Raffaela in the path of an oncoming car becomes one of the major priorities of the next ten seconds of my life.
Melina Marchetta
#36. From From the Journal of Crispin
There is a monotonous babbling in our dreams
That makes them our dependent heirs, the heirs
Of dreamers buried in our sleep, and not
The oncoming fantasies of better birth.
Wallace Stevens
#37. I changed my mind," he said. "I'll take you up on helping me get a job."
I almost swerved into oncoming traffic.
Richelle Mead
#38. If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.
Robert Lowell
#39. The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.
David Lee Roth
#40. Hey, you're taking up the entire sidewalk, bitch!" She scowled and yelled, "I have children!" I yelled back at her, "Well, next time give your husband a blow job and you won't! Why should I have to walk into oncoming traffic because you don't want to give a little head?
Joan Rivers
#41. Uh uh uh, turning the car into oncoming traffic ... is counterproductive!
Jim Carrey
#42. With the expression of one who knows that the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train.
Terry Pratchett
#43. Tsarong felt every day of his life creak in his joints as he made his way to the door. He had grown accustomed to the pain, the muted, arthritic drum roll that reminded him he was still bound to this realm - still able to make a difference before the oncoming storm.
Adam Lance Garcia
#44. Talking to Reagan was like standing in front of an oncoming train.
Rainbow Rowell
#45. I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.
Philip Johnson
#46. To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient sanctities of life, and in the other a flaming torch to light the way for oncoming generations.
Anna Garlin Spencer
#47. All that is happening in art is part of a process of exploration and discovery. I hope to live for a few more years so that I can catch glimpses of the oncoming future.
Joseph Plaskett
#48. All I want to talk about is the oncoming apocalypse in my brain.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#49. Foget Murphy's Law. Nixe's Law: if you were waiting to make a left turn, there was always one oncoming fucktard who sailed through on the red.
Mary Hughes
#50. Thoughts are the shorebirds scurrying back and forth just beyond the edge of oncoming wave.
Tom Gillaspy
#51. The rabbit presses back her ears, Turns back her liquid, anguished eyes And crouches low: then with wild spring Spurts from the terror of his oncoming To be choked back, the wire ring Her frantic effort throttling: Piteous brown ball of quivering fears!
D.H. Lawrence
#52. Left with an oncoming headache, went home, and that's verified, to his wife and six-month-old baby. He's three weeks into a big, fat raise and promotion. He doesn't fit for me."
"Lucky for Whistler, and likely his mother?"
"What? Why?"
"Weak joke. So back to your corporate trio.
J.D. Robb
#53. In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train.
Tina Brown
#54. If we want to survive the oncoming extinction and reverse the damages that we have done to our planet, we are going to have to change the way that we perceive the world.
Joseph P. Kauffman
#55. When you've been falsely accused of serious crimes as often I have, you learn to recognize the oncoming inevitability of the next one.
David A. McIntee
#56. There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
#57. The oncoming night was filled with the mystery of unknown places and of distance, of things that happened long ago and happenings yet to com
Elyne Mitchell
#58. Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.
John Dewey
#59. In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.
Alfred North Whitehead
#60. The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had been tugging me with disconcerting frequency these days.
Maggie Stiefvater
#61. I'm surprised when I see someone doing the logical, commonsense thing: Walk facing the oncoming traffic.
Robert James Thomson
#62. She gets that fabulous edge that girls get to their voices, the edge that spells oncoming Tantrum From the Bowels of Hell, that says, 'I'll scratch the heavens down around you and suck the fucken air from your lungs and spit you to fucken hell and you know it.
D.B.C. Pierre
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