Quotes About Collisions

#1. Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.

Sam Harris

#2. I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.

Alfred Kastler

#3. Compared with mammals, birds have relatively large eyes. In simple terms, a bigger eye means better vision, and excellent vision is essential for avoiding collisions in flight, or for capturing fast-moving or camouflaged prey. Birds' eyes, however, are deceptive - they are bigger than they look.

Tim Birkhead

#4. Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#5. They're hitting harder now more than ever. The only person who would argue that is someone who has never had a physics class. They're faster and stronger, so the reality is the collisions have to be bigger.

Randy Cross

#6. Most collisions out on the fields are needless.

Ty Cobb

#7. Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.

Lauren Oliver

#8. Indeed, my first interest in the pioneer work of Doctor Freud sprang, not from a concern for persons wounded in their collisions with reality, but from my personal curiosity about the nature of creativity and the springs of motivation. So

Trevanian

#9. Life is a two way street - and sometimes there are collisions.

Christina Engela

#10. I have no connections here; only gusty collisions,
rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse.
...
I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn,
a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement.
People want to push the buttons and see me glow.

Marge Piercy

#11. Despite differences of faith or even the occasional collisions between them, Egypt is united.

Ahmed Zewail

#12. I've always liked edges, places where one thing becomes another ... ... transition zones, boundaries and borderlands. I like the mixing that happens, the juxtapositions, the collisions and connections. I like the way they help me see the world from a fresh angle.

Philip Connors

#13. New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life.

Hope Edelman

#14. 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

#15. It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.

Dave Matthews

#16. Quark-antiquark collisions cannot be realized directly since free quarks are not available. The closest substitute is to use collisions between protons and antiprotons.

Carlo Rubbia

#17. Especially with sports cars, when you have got so many cars on the track with various degrees of competitiveness, then something will happen. It's the nature of racing, the law of averages. If you want to be a front-runner then you are going to have to push very hard, and collisions can happen.

Allan McNish

#18. The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas.

Jared Diamond

#19. Like cars in amusement parks, our direction is often determined through collisions.

Yahia Lababidi

#20. I am myself an empiric in natural philosophy, suffering my faith to go no further than my facts. I am pleased, however, to see the efforts of hypothetical speculation, because by the collisions of different hypotheses, truth may be elicited and science advanced in the end.

Thomas Jefferson

#21. Music is so essential to the Cuban character that you can't disentangle it from the history of the nation. the history of Cuban music is one of cultural collisions, of voluntary and forced migrations, of religions and revolutions.

Ned Sublette

#22. You are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.

David Eagleman

#23. Who you hang out with determines what you dream about and what you collide with.
And the collisions and the dreams lead to your changes.
And the changes are what you become.
Change the outcome by changing your circle.

Seth Godin

#24. Our life force is a form of flowing energy, a blast of verve renewed through our ongoing daily interactions and the inevitable collisions between the id and the ego.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#25. The collisions happen 40 yards down the field, so if you take off from 5 yards or 10, it does not even matter. Do I make sense? I mean, come on.

Will Muschamp

#26. You never know about the deaths you didn't die: the mountain peaks you missed, the collisions that didn't happen. It's a warm, cosy feeling. It's the way the airlines fly.

Gavin Lyall

#27. Home-plate collisions are something you cannot ignore.

Joe Torre

#28. The complications, as always, had to do with avoiding collisions and respecting what was still called "air space" around habitats, even though it had no air in it and might more properly have been called "space space.

Neal Stephenson

#29. The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each on its own side of the road, each sounding its horn and each stationary.

Philip Guedalla

#30. There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.

George Eliot

#31. I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and what I know and have learned about as a scientist. I think there's a broad perception that that's the case, and that's what scares many scientists away from a serious consideration of faith.

Francis Collins

#32. Life is a series of random collisions.

Jessica Zafra

#33. Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.

Frederick Sommer

#34. Life is detours, collisions.

Robert C.J. Graves

#35. Life is a series of narrow escapes and random collisions.

Bill Wells

#36. I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things and I think I do that subconsciously when I'm reading books of poetry.

Victoria Chang

#37. Exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.

Stephen Dunn

#38. Collisions were collisions and couldn't be planned ...

J.R. Ward

#39. Juggling many projects and having all these accidental collisions that you can't predict enables a kind of comparative thinking. To focus on a single project from beginning to end is extremely difficult, not just for me, but for many people.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#40. Like every writer, I'm drawn by unlikely juxtapositions, precisely-dated and once-only collisions between people from different worlds.

Hilary Mantel

#41. A thought robot activated by the tremendous energies unleashed during collisions of fundamental opposing qualities. A new fusion process powered by ... 'dualites'? No. There are no dualities. Only symmetries. Final Crisis: Superman Beyond

Grant Morrison

#42. If you get a ticket, you can go to traffic school, and they make you watch movies for like eight hours: head-on collisions, mannequins flying out the windshield. At the end of the movie, the instructor goes, 'Now what have we learned by this?' Never let a mannequin drive your car.

Robert Schimmel

#43. I am a desperate romantic. I love the idea of random collisions of the heart.

Jessica Thompson

#44. High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton.

Carlo Rubbia

#45. From a scientific point of view, we now know that the water is interlaced with the lunar soil in many locations, perhaps as remnants of comet collisions with the lunar surface.

Peter Diamandis

#46. The state of rest is as important as the state of motion. Motion may lead to progress, but motion also leads to collisions and conflict. Motion requires effort and energy. Rest is effortless and undemanding.

Biju Vasudevan

#47. What is justice? Two forces collide. Each may have the right in his own sphere. And here's where an Emperor commands orderly solutions. Those collisions he cannot prevent
he solves.

Frank Herbert

#48. When a head and a wall collide it's never the wall that breaks.

Marty Rubin