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Quotes About Collision

She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies!
~ Jerry Spinelli, Love, Stargirl
Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.
~ David Seabury
Gin a body meet a body Flyin' through the air, Gin a body hit a body, Will it fly? and where?
~ James Clerk Maxwell
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature, opposition to it in his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism, and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
~ Abraham Lincoln
at the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
~ Alain de Botton
A slow-motion train wreck. For something to go this colossally wrong, everything must intersect and collide at the exact right, or in this case, wrong, moment.
~ Jenny Han
You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies! Love and Love and Love Again, Stargirl.
~ Jerry Spinelli
it is not just a matter of feeling—how can this go right, what can I do to make this right, but there is also this other thing—that you think, life is truly absurd, and there really is no meaning, only objects of various size colliding in space, if they are so lucky as to be near each other.
~ Jesse Ball
Life is a series of random collisions.
~ Jessica Zafra
The company had a remarkable safety record: not a single passenger death from sinking, collision, ice, weather, fire, or any other circumstance where blame could be laid upon captain or company
~ Erik Larson
We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.
~ David Suzuki
Our moon was born too small to harbor life. It came from the collision of a Mars-sized world into the primordial Earth. From that colossal crunch spun a disk of rocks that condensed into a satellite.
~ Gregory Benford
Sixteen unseeing stone of disheveled male slammed into her; Robin was knocked off her feet and catapulted backwards, handbag flying, arms windmilling, towards the void beyond the lethal staircase.
~ Robert Galbraith
blundered straight into the table nest: the
~ Robert Galbraith
Smash the right two particles together in the right way and you get a bomb. That's us, Dex. Accidental fusion.
~ Robin Wasserman
an electron accelerated to .9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 9999999999999 times the speed of light would hit you with the same impact as a Mack truck traveling at normal speed.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
~ Vince Lombardi
Football is not a contact sport. It's a collision sport. Dancing is a good example of a contact sport.
~ Duffy Daugherty
Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
~ Duffy Daugherty
Collision with the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self
~ Suzanne Segal
By the Collision of different Sentiments," Franklin wrote, "Sparks of Truth are struck out, and political Light is obtained.
~ Jill Lepore
But then it's difficult, isn't it, to make a passionate argument for what you already have? So boring. Whereas the delightful alternative? A bouquet of promises! A sackful of dreams! A glorious ship of fantasies, undamaged by collision with actually getting anything done.
~ Joe Abercrombie
It was the kind of terrified look that reminds you that no matter how rational or grown up a person might seem, some part of him is absolutely sure - knows - that an evil other-world exists just outside of our regular, everyday world. And that although we don't expect that world to collide with our calm, predictable one...well, really, at any moment that is exactly what might happen.
~ Ann M. Martin