Quotes About Plane Crashes

#1. Everyone was always in danger, after all. From cancer, from car crashes and plane crashes, from criminals. Most people managed denial; managed to pretend they were safe.

John Shirley

#2. Thinking about averting plane crashes in 1935, or stopping infections of central lines in 2003, or rescuing drowning victims today, I realized that the key problem in each instance was essentially a simple one, despite the number of contributing factors.

Atul Gawande

#3. In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.

Dennis Quaid

#4. Most serious plane crashes are survivable. There's a sense that, 'Oh, if we go down, that's it, it's out of my hands.' And that's just statistically not true. I have more optimism and more faith that my own actions can make a difference.

Amanda Ripley

#5. Now he turned the radio on to the news. As we did our separate chores, we listened and commented idly to each other on what we heard - the politics, the plane crashes and crimes, the large disasters of the day, which we all use to keep the smaller, more long-term sorrows at bay.

Sue Miller

#6. I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He's got all those techniques. If your plane crashes into the jungle somewhere, he would be the guy you would want to have with you.

Wes Anderson

#7. How come New York gets all the cool plane crashes?

Daniel Tosh

#8. If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.

Ted Turner

#9. In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear accidents. This despite the fact that these three combined have killed fewer people in the past half-century than car accidents do in any given year.

Will Self

#10. I hope that your plane crashes over the ocean and piranhas eat your balls. It was lovely meeting you, you self-righteous egoistical son of a bitch. I can see where Joey gets his psychotic behavior.

L.P. Maxa

#11. Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

Muhammad Ali

#12. I don't have any relationship with God and I've never wanted it. I don't believe in fate or in any superior entity; if a plane crashes and people die, it's not because Heaven said so.

Fernando Alonso Diaz

#13. Road accidents, psycho killings, plane crashes abound - we don't know which day will be our last, so why not make today the happiest day and be thankful for all that we have?

Maddy Malhotra

#14. The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.

Malcolm Gladwell

#15. When we travel, most of us take too much. I always work on the assumption that I'm going to take everything with me because I don't want the second wife to have anything if the plane crashes.

Virginia Graham

#16. The emotional people ... You tap into people's hearts.

Johnny Hunt

#17. I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement.

John Hawkes

#18. He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Lao-Tzu

#19. Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Aaron Hill

#20. I won't go up in a plane, but if a play crashes, I'll jump into the next one that comes along and take it up for a spin.

Paul Muni

#21. In my own house, I rigged up a laboratory and studied chemistry in the evenings, determined that there should be nothing in the manufacture of steel that I would not know.

Charles M. Schwab

#22. Chestnuts fall from the tree; symbol of masculinity and femininity - I scratched a purple pentagram in the tree.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#23. If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

George Carlin

#24. You'll figure it out! You get on your plane and I'll get on mine. And we'll see which one crashes!

Kazuo Ishiguro

#25. Let the whole world knock on that door. I'm not opening it.

Emm Cole

#26. Life is not defined by what you achieve, but what you give.

Debasish Mridha

#27. Every soul that existed on earth is part of earth human history.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. Without discipline, there's no life at all.

Katharine Hepburn

#29. Will was worth at least a few tears from a grizzled old wreck like himself, he thought, and made no move to wipe them away.

John Flanagan

#30. Abigail read in Reader's Digest that all plane landings were controlled crashes. Like the way we live our lives, she thought. Bumble through doing the best we can and hoping that some benevolence keeps us from crashing.

Chris Abani

#31. I'll eat you up!

Maurice Sendak

#32. Just as your physical body is composed of tissue, organs, bones, and different parts, so your subtle physical body has many different parts.

Frederick Lenz

#33. I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly.

John Prescott

#34. A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane. Sarah dragged her wreckage back to the house up to her bedroom, and down into a deep, dark hole.

Mitch Albom

#35. We wear the chains we forge in life,

Richard Russo