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Quotes About Collision

Truth reveals reality, and reality can be described as what we humans run into when we are wrong, a collision in which we always lose. Being
~ Dallas Willard
If antimatter and matter make contact, both are destroyed instantly. Physicists call the process 'annihilation.
~ Dan Brown
In reality," said Democritus, "there are only atoms and the void." Perception is due to the expulsion of atoms from the object upon the sense organ. There is or have been or will be an infinite number of worlds; at every moment planets are colliding and dying, and new worlds are rising out of chaos by the selective aggregation of atoms of similar size and shape. There is no design; the universe is a machine. This
~ Will Durant
Which of these animals is more likely to kill you? A SHARK                                    A DEER           ANSWER: The deer is more likely to kill you. In fact, it's 300 times more likely to kill you (via a collision with your car).
~ Chip Heath
There's always a connection, a reason because of which people enter your orbit, bristling with dark energy like a meteor intent on collision.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
did we crash Ellie?
~ Chris Haile
If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
~ Henry Clay
In a gas, motion has the upper hand; the atoms are moving so fast that they have no time to enter into any sort of combination with each other: occasionally, atom must meet atom and, so to speak, each hold out vain hands to the other, but the pace is too great and, in a moment, they are far away from each other again.
~ William Henry Bragg
Reading is a life-long collision with minds not like your own.
~ Jeanette Winterson
The sky lightened now. Far ahead, they could see where the Pacific half of the blizzard had reached the Chuska range. Its cold, wet air met the dry, warmer air on the New Mexico side at the ridgeline. The collision produced a towering wall of white fog, which poured down the slopes like a silent slow-motion Niagara.
~ Tony Hillerman
And here I sit with my stamps in a complete muddle, and nobody has bothered to tell me what it's all about." "Listen now, Hemul," said Snufkin slowly and clearly. "It's about a comet that is going to collide with the earth tomorrow." "Collide?" said the Hemulen. "Has that anything to do with stamp-collecting?
~ Tove Jansson
out of the foliage and crashed right into Starflight. Starflight found himself circled by strong brown wings as Clay nearly flung him into the treetops with
~ Tui T. Sutherland
accidentally knocking
~ Tui T. Sutherland
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.
~ Unknown
And all this was before the bus hit the sheep.
~ Dave Eggers
Those who only watched pro football from the safety of their stadium seats or big-screen TVs could never imagine the devastating power of enormous men running at speed into other enormous men. It was like being in a car accident over and over. It didn't merely hurt; it stunned. It shocked the body in so many different ways that one could never be the same afterward.
~ David Baldacci
Some days after quitting St. Helena, says that document, the expedition fell in with a ship coming from Europe, and was thus made acquainted with the warlike rumors then afloat, by which a collision with the English marine was rendered possible. The Prince de Joinville immediately assembled the officers of the 'Belle Poule,' to deliberate on an event so unexpected and important.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Truth does not make itself real in an abstract contest of ideas, but in a collision of persons. Being condemned to read a fair amount of books filled only with arguments, I know what truth severed from the person is: a laborious truth. And that is why I turn to you with the plea: Do not allow an idea to grow in you at the price of your personality.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Qué hacen los astros para evitar la colisión? Lo mismo que él: aferrarse a la inercia que los lleva a la catástrofe. Como los vagones de un tren, cuyo poder sobre la locomotora no es otro que la certeza de que al final, cuando el estruendo gane tiempo y forma, se destruirán con ella.
~ Xavier Velasco
Love is kind of like a car crash... you never see it coming.
~ Unknown
Like billiard balls colliding our courses were altered.
~ Unknown
It was a train wreck happening right in front of me and I couldn't do anything about it, except that not only was I watching, I was also the train.
~ Lisa Kleypas
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
Changing the asteroid's velocity changes the time when the asteroid crosses Earth's orbit. After all, just because it crosses Earth's path doesn't mean there is necessarily going to be a collision. It has to cross Earth's path when the Earth is right there.
~ Carrie Nugent