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Quotes About Collision

Boxing is a great example of it, but in football, sometimes you're taking greater hits than boxers. When you have one man going full speed against another man, and those heads are colliding, it's just the fact of science you're going to have results.
~ Jim Brown
Today, a couple with 'just married' tags collided head-on with a hearse carrying two coffins in the back, both of a married couple that had previouslydied in a car accident.
~ Anthony Liccione
It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car.
~ James Walsh
For they'd come out into the hurricane where Threadneedle, Cornhill, Poultry, and Lombard all collided.
~ Neal Stephenson
If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not because we lacked the brain power to protect ourselves but because we lacked the foresight. The dominant species that replaces us in post-apocalyptic Earth just might wonder, as they gaze upon our mounted skeletons in their natural history museums, why large-headed Homo sapiens fared no better than the proverbially pea-brained dinosaurs.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not because we lacked the brain power to protect ourselves but because we lacked the foresight.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
One substantial hunk of junk led to the formation of the Moon. The unexpected scarcity of iron and other higher-mass elements in the Moon, derived from lunar samples returned by Apollo astronauts, indicates that the Moon most likely burst forth from Earth's iron-poor crust and mantle after a glancing collision with a wayward Mars-sized protoplanet.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
the power to remind us that there are times when destiny and love collide.
~ Nicholas Sparks
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
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.
~ Christopher Hitchens
How little he knew about the rules of this world which he had crashed against so casually, like a moth bumping against a light!
~ L.P. Hartley
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
She experienced a queer collision of reactions these days. Karou's were foremost, and the most immediate, but Madrigal's were hers, too: her two selves, coming together with a strange kind of vibration. It's wasn't disharmony, exactly.
~ Laini Taylor
I think they both have to be lucky. It's like, luck friction. One's flint and one's steel, striking together to make fire.
~ Laini Taylor
In retrospect, he looked back on the events that had drawn them together and believed with all his heart that an invisible hand had moved him and her about like pieces on a chessboard, aligning their positions, manipulating incidents, bringing them inexorably to a collision point. Fate? The Almighty? Alex didn't know, nor did he care to guess. All that mattered was this moment and the feeling that it was wonderfully and perfectly right.
~ Catherine Anderson
You go to white movies and, like everybody else, you fall in love with Joan Crawford, and you root for the Good Guys who are killing off the Indians. It comes as a great psychological collision when you realize all of these things are really metaphors for your oppression, and will lead into a kind of psychological warfare in which you may perish
~ James Baldwin
Football is not a contact sport, it is said: it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
~ Keith Jackson
I've always been someone who said that football is a contact sport.
~ Niko Kovac
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
~ James Thurber
Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The price for men in motion is the occasional collision.
~ Carroll Smith
The past and the present kept smashing into each other in completely untenable ways.
~ Theresa Rebeck
Sometimes you can see car crashes from a long way off, if the road is straight and both vehicles are heading towards each other in the same lane.
~ Nick Hornby
Sometimes you can see car crashes from a long way off, if the road is straight and both vehicles are heading toward each other in the same lane.
~ Nick Hornby