Top 100 Quotes About Collision
#1. If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the body
Has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit,
Felt in the tingling bruises of collision,
And known to captains as esprit de corps.
Anthony Hecht
#2. If you want to know your purpose, pursue the heart of God and you'll have a head-on collision with your calling.
Renee Swope
#3. Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful ...
Rumer Godden
#4. Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want.
Frank Gehry
#5. Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
Wassily Kandinsky
#6. The funny thing is just the collision of genres, taking one medium and trying to ram it into another medium, whether it fits or not.
Tom Scharpling
#7. There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is that the way the Titanic was designed, the emphasis was placed on surviving a head-on collision.
Henry Petroski
#8. By the Collision of different Sentiments," Franklin wrote, "Sparks of Truth are struck out, and political Light is obtained.
Jill Lepore
#9. The formal definition of impact is a forcible contact between two things, and God has designed our lives for a collision course with the world.
David Platt
#10. HARRY, THIS IS NO TIME TO BE A GENTLEMAN!" Wood roared as Harry swerved to avoid collision. "KNOCK HER OFF HER BROOM IF YOU HAVE TO!
J.K. Rowling
#11. The collision between a Christian mind and a solidly earthbound culture ought to be a violent one.
Harry Blamires
#12. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies! Love and Love and Love Again, Stargirl.
Jerry Spinelli
#13. Anger is, in the Stoic analysis, caused by the violent collision of hope and reality. We
The School Of Life
#14. Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre.
Tina Brown
#15. I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn't end with some kind of big, crazy shootout and blood spill, but more of a collision of ideas and a discussion of ethics.
Joel Edgerton
#16. The reality, as I have come to understand it, is that the future is not fixed, and that therefore it cannot be reliably predicted. Consciousness interacts with vast archetypal fields of possibility and probability. What actually happens is the result of the collision of both forces.
Steven Forrest
#17. However long, it's definitely the presence of other people that brings out the weirdness - that collision of your own way of being with the everyday lives of others, the abrupt awareness - always a surprise no matter how often it's happened - that their lives are very different from your own.
Lynn Coady
#18. In their dreams they touch, they intertwine, it's more like a collision, and that is the end of flying. They fall to earth, fouled parachutists, botched and cindery angels, love streaming out behind them like torn silk. Enemy groundfire comes up to meet them.
Margaret Atwood
#19. Here's a phrase that apparently the airlines simply made up: near miss. They say that if 2 planes almost collide, it's a near miss. Bullshit, my friend. It's a near hit! A collision is a near miss.
[WHAM! CRUNCH!]
"Look, they nearly missed!"
"Yes, but not quite.
George Carlin
#20. Preserving freedom of speech maximizes the chance of truth emerging from its collision with error and half-truth.
Nigel Warburton
#21. When media make war against each other, it is a case of world- views in collision.
Neil Postman
#22. When you, the lover, are ready, your SoulMate will inevitably come. The two currents of your life mission and purpose and their life mission and purpose are on a collision course. It is only a matter of time.
Annette Vaillancourt
#23. The general or prevailing opinion in any subject is rarely or never the whole truth; it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied
John Stuart Mill
#24. I used to be the queen of domesticity, a Good Housekeeping cover model in the making. I was also an ambitious professional. These two identities had always been on a collision course. But I was oblivious to that fact until after the crash.
Tiffany Dufu
#25. It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#26. I hate small talk with a passionate hatred. Why? I suppose because any meeting with another human being is collision for me now.
May Sarton
#27. A collision at sea can ruin your entire day.
Thucydides
#28. When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.
Bill Vaughan
#29. Shakespeare didn't conceive of his tragedy in Aristotelian terms - that is, as a tragedy of the fall of a flawed great man - but rather as a collision of deeply held and irreconcilable principles, embodied in characters who are destroyed when these principles collide.
James Shapiro
#30. More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center.
Samuel Johnson
#31. From 1945 to 1991, China was engaged in a series of wars that nearly broke them. This generation has been through hell: the Great Leap Forward, hunger, starvation, near collision with the Russians - the Cultural Revolution gone mad. I have no doubt that this generation wants a peaceful rise.
Lee Kuan Yew
#32. Being near her was like balancing on a tipping world, trying to keep your footing as the ground wanted to roll you forward, hurl you into a spiral from which there was no recovery, only impact, and it was a longed-for impact, a sweet and beckoning collision.
Laini Taylor
#33. Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate change], yet we dither.
James Hansen
#34. Collision with the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self
Suzanne Segal
#35. I've always been interested in the sport even as a young kid. I liked the sport of martial arts because I loved anything that involved contact, conflict or collision.
Brad Tavares
#36. Something was happening to the five, however. Battered by the chance collision of several billion molecules, the die flipped onto a point, spun gently and came down a seven. Blind Io picked up the cube and counted the sides. "Come on," he said wearily. "Play fair.
Terry Pratchett
#37. I like searching for the collision detection boundaries, finding invincibility glitches, and purposefully doing other stuff that normal players aren't supposed to do. In order words, I'm a bug checker.
Hidetaka Suehiro
#38. For those who find it remarkable that we live in a universe of Something, just wait. Nothingness is heading on a collision course right toward us!
Lawrence M. Krauss
#39. The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render it morbidly sensitive to the most trifling collision.
Washington Irving
#40. Belief systems thrive in circumstances of collision. They are energized by their opposites.
James P. Carse
#41. When you feel unprotected, unsupported and unprepared to take care of yourself, your insides will feel if you have been through a train wreck. The best way to describe this experience is that you are having a head on body collision between your wannabe and your can never be.
Iyanla Vanzant
#42. She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.
L.M. Montgomery
#43. He spent all of his twenty-three years operating at only one speed and in one direction, furious and forward, convinced that a collision could only improve the ride.
Karen Abbott
#45. Every book in the 'Dreams' cycle dramatizes a particular epoch in the ongoing cultural collision between North America's native peoples and its European colonizers.
Tom Bissell
#46. I've always been into computers. When I was getting out of high school and forming my identity musically, all of it was really coming into the fold, computers and drum machines. It felt like, you know, I'm in the right place at the right time. I liked the collision.
Trent Reznor
#47. We are all on a collision course with ourselves. Inevitably, our existing habits will be counter-productive to achieving our bigger picture goals. To avoid the crash, we need to regularly review how we are doing things and make adjustments as needed.
John Fairclough
#48. The whole idea that vehicles in the future will communicate with each other is a really big deal. It's a big deal for safety ... and it's an opportunity to engage the automobile in the work of ensuring collision avoidance.
Anthony Foxx
#49. 'V-Wars' is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, ethics, politics and an exploration of what defines us as human.
Jonathan Maberry
#50. I like interacting with human beings, so being on stage feels like a larger version of that - kind of like throwing a party. It's like knocking into the human collision of everyday life and it just so happens to break down the wall between the audience and me and helps the songs communicate better.
Matt Nathanson
#51. A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
Arthur C. Clarke
#52. The collision of mobile and social platforms and the need to build these companies from the ground up - whether it's a game, a healthcare application, an education application - building these from the ground up is what allows entrepreneurial activity to be unleashed.
Jim Breyer
#53. I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#54. I'm attracted to ensembles: you get a lot of really good moving pieces. It's sort of like a horse race in a way, especially when you know that everyone is on this collision course. It's like, 'Who's going to make it?' And you can put people together in unexpected pairings.
Noah Hawley
#55. I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.
Richard Eyre
#56. For a long time now, every meeting with another human being has been a collision. I feel too much, sense too much, am exhausted by the reverberations after even the simplest conversation.
May Sarton
#57. A choice is an act of god, malevolent or loving is your will, free until conflicting with others who share this power, a true collision of good and evil.
K.R. Royal
#58. Football is not a contact sport. Its a collision sport
Duffy Daugherty
#59. You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.
Murray Gell-Mann
#60. If at all the energies of the Soul (Atmashakti) gets wasted, it is due to conflicts. Endless energy is lost due to conflicts! Even with slightest collision (conflict) it is all over! If we maintain equanimity with awareness and do not conflict with the other person, then work will go on.
Dada Bhagwan
#61. If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
Henry Clay
#62. Molecular collision dynamics has been a wonderful area of research for all practitioners. This is especially true for those who were following the footsteps of pioneers and leaders of the field twenty years ago.
Yuan T. Lee
#63. life seems to be a collision of opposites.
Richard Rohr
#64. The difference was that all through those eight months I had been trying to substitute an alternate reel. Now I was trying only to reconstruct the collision, the collapse of the dead star.
Joan Didion
#65. into his path, causing him to sidestep. He apologised for the near collision. As he carried on his way, the girl scurried off to her mother setting up a stall for
Andrew Butcher
#66. Mostly I was spending time in the Strand, that bastion of titillating erudition. Not so much a bookstore as a collision of 100 different bookstores, with literary wreckage strewn over 18 miles of shelves.
David Levithan
#67. Like the perfect collision of oils on a canvas.
She was a walking piece of art. Words and all.
Candace Knoebel
#68. All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#69. The early Christians felt a deep collision with the empire in which they lived, and with politics as usual. They carelessly crossed party lines and built subversive friendships. And we should do that too.
Shane Claiborne
#70. . . . our most important task is to get off our present collision course. And who is there to tackle such a task? I think every one of us, whether old or young, powerful or powerless, rich or poor, influential or uninfluential.
E.F. Schumacher
#71. Collision avoidance systems are the next big radio frequency (RF) toxin to hit the USA general population as they become standard safety equipment in most new cars.
Steven Magee
#72. Romantic behavior was basically monotonous and predictable, and that therefore one could write a fairly straightforward formula that would predict the collision course of any two people.
John Green
#73. At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
Alain De Botton
#74. Although it is always present, the mind cannot recognize it because the infinite is not perceived through the mind. The infinite perceives itself." -Collision with the Infinite
Susan Segal
#75. I've seen elbows that broke eye sockets. I've seen a German goalkeeper just level a French guy. His teammates thought he was dead lying on the ground. This was in 1982 at my first World Cup. But a bite is outside any kind of contact collision: dirty foul play. A bite is a bite.
George Vecsey
#76. The War on Drugs and the War on Homelessness are on a collision course that no one in the media or in public life are willing to acknowledge. Ostensibly aimed at decreasing the use of illegal drugs, the War on Drugs succeeds only in increasing homelessness.
Thomas Szasz
#77. Nothing matters except for the harvest, the gathering in, the adding up, the bringing together, the whole story, the way it happens and happens and goes on happening.
(from "Collision")
Carol Shields
#78. Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature, opposition to it in his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism, and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
Abraham Lincoln
#79. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and moon were about to clash, many persons would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.
Stephen Crane
#80. Knew what it was to loose him. That specific being. that unique and miraculous collision of biology and history, spirit and matter.
Janet Fitch
#81. The wettest, weirdest environment is human interaction. Whatever we build gets misunderstood, corroded and chronic, and it happens quickly and in unpredictable ways. That's one reason why the web is so fascinating-it's a collision between the analytic world of code and wet world of people.
Seth Godin
#82. Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are ignored.
Max Mayfield
#83. We just gotta fly
I can take you thru the center of the dark
We gonna fly
On a collision course to crash into my heart
I will be your, I will be your rocket
Def Leppard
#84. Paganism declared that virtue was in a balance; Christianity declared it was in a conflict: the collision of two passions apparently opposite. Of
G.K. Chesterton
#85. In Architecture there is a part that is the result of Logical Reasoning and a part that is created through the Senses. There is always a point where they Clash. I don't think Architecture can be created without that Collision.
Tadao Ando
#86. In Michigan recently a man won a lawsuit for substantial damages because, he claimed, a rear-end collision in his car had made him a homosexual.
Simon Blackburn
#87. We are like a people under [a] sentence of death, waiting for the date to be set. We sense that something is about to happen.
We know that things cannot go on as they are. History has reached an impasse. We are now on a collision course. Something is about to give.
Billy Graham
#88. The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic event.
Iannis Xenakis
#89. life is then, in sum, "constantly deciding what we are going to be."[78] As a result, our life is intrinsically a collision with the future. Thus, "life is futurity, it is what it is not yet."[79]
Oswald Sobrino
#90. Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction ... Men (and women) are not as different from molecules as they think.
Roald Hoffmann
#91. what a perfect collision of star it was that came together at just the right moment at just the right time to build the incredible thing that is you
Nikita Gill
#92. The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods
Irving Kristol
#93. Home gigs can be hard because it's an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the audience. I'm doing this job which is not quite acting - part of it is me, part performance. You're presenting a cartoon of yourself to people who know you as a line-drawing.
Dylan Moran
#94. If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.
William Godwin
#95. Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#96. Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.
Ray Bradbury
#97. If our destiny is nothing more than a prediction of a collision, an intersection between two paths, then we don't have a destiny at all.
Claudia Gray
#98. It felt as if everything that had happened so far in my life had been leading me to this point, preparing me for this task, and that I was uniquely equipped to pursue this quest. It was a perfect collision of personality, past experience, purpose, and timing.
Roz Savage
#99. The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God.
Oswald Chambers
#100. Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.
Nancy Gibbs
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