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Quotes About Collision

You live in world, you collide with others. That's the way it is. We collide and sometimes someone gets hurt. They just wanted to steal a silly pair of boxers. It went wrong. For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do? It takes so much hold on to hate - you lose your grip on what's important, you know?
~ Coben, Harlan
Cars and trucks were everywhere but parked in driveways. They were crushed in the middle of the street, flipped upside down, wrapped around poles. And
~ Lauren Tarshis
that bump and grind against each other, forming our oceans and continents
~ Laurence Bergreen
Over time, the plate from the east smashed into the plate from the west, which slid underneath.
~ Laurence Bergreen
I would like to propose that the reason our actions have been so manifestly unsuccessful in steering the world away from its present collision course is that we have not, generally speaking, been basing them on any true understanding.
~ Charles Eisenstein
He was most comfortable with sheer physical collision. When it all came down to it, that, even more than his tactical expertise, was what had made Jade famous; it was what he did best.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
Deux bolides lancés l'un vers l'autre qu'on océan sépare encore. Deux étoiles filantes qui vont entrer en collision. Des retrouvailles trop longtemps différées. Des retrouvailles dangereuses. Car l'amour et la mort n'ont que deux lettres de différence.
~ Guillaume Musso
We need a theory that goes before the Big Bang, and that's String Theory. String Theory says that perhaps two universes collided to create our universe, or maybe our universe is butted from another universe leaving an umbilical cord. Well, that umbilical cord is called a wormhole.
~ Michio Kaku
I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.
~ Tom Paulin
For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal.
~ Thomas Huxley
a collision at sea will ruin your entire day
~ Thucydides
All music is just a collision of sounds until you know its internal conventions and understand the nuances. It's a question of familiarity.
~ Max Richter
He followed it down, in full flight now, the trees beginning to close him in, malign and baleful shapes that reared like enormous androids provoked at the alien insubstantiality of this flesh colliding among them.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The theory is that if the Internet can't be controlled, then copyright is dead. The thing is, the Internet is a machine for copying things cheaply, quickly, and with as little control as possible, while copyright is the right to control who gets to make copies, so these two abstractions seem destined for a fatal collision, right?
~ Cory Doctorow
two burning stars collide and spark a fire of fate two blazing spirits meet—enkindling soul mates
~ Terri Guillemets
A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.
~ Author Unknown
The collision between a Christian mind and a solidly earthbound culture ought to be a violent one.
~ Harry Blamires
Mong Kok is where old, traditional Hong Kong and the contemporary, future-leaning city collide like a speeding Lamborghini into a bus full of retirees on their way to a bingo parlor
~ Lee Goldberg
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
I crossed the room at a run, barreled through the door to take the stairs, and crashed into Ranger. We lost balance and rolled tangled together to the fourth-floor landing. We lay there for a moment, stunned and breathless. Ranger was flat on his back, and I was on top of him.
~ Janet Evanovich
out I was going to crash the car into a telephone pole.
~ Janet Evanovich
To not look at the data is foolish, but to look at the data as having all the answers is even more foolish. It is a collision of new-school statistics and statisticians against old-school managers, coaches, and instructors. Neither side is right, neither is wrong; there is so much to be gained from listening to both sides.
~ Tim Kurkjian
If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
~ Henry Clay
You ever have that happen where you meet someone and just--clash? We were like a gravel and cream sandwhich. That is the weirdest thing you have ever said. I suppose you were the cream? Of course I was the cream. Sha.--Eve Rosser, The Drama Queen's Last Dance (Rachel Caine)
~ P.C. Cast