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Quotes About Collision

I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me.
~ Anna Quindlen
You're a rotten driver, I protested. Either you ought to be more careful, or you oughtn't drive at all. I am careful. No you're not. Well, other people are, she said lightly. What's that got to do with it? They'll keep out of my way, she insisted. It takes two to make an accident.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
You're a rotten driver', I protested. 'Either you ought to be more careful, or you oughtn't to drive at all.' 'I am careful.' 'No, you're not.' 'Well, other people are,' she said lightly. 'What's that got to do with it?' 'They'll keep out of my way,' she insisted. 'It takes two to make an accident.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I?
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life.
~ Adam Hamilton
The most energetic and prompt measures and the immediate appearance in arms of a large and overpowering force are recommended to Congress as the most certain and efficient means of bringing the existing collision with Mexico to a speedy and successful termination.
~ James K. Polk
I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.
~ Ian MacKaye
What happens when an irresistible force hits an immovable object?
~ Robert Muchamore
The driver of the tractor-trailer jumped out of his cab.
~ Lisa Scottoline
On my way home from work that night, I get in an accident: I'm broadsided by the holidays.
~ Lolly Winston
Guns, race, meat, and Manifest Destiny all collided in a single explosion of violent, dehumanized activity.
~ Ruth Ozeki
for. One of its headlamps was broken and its chrome rim
~ Ruth Rendell
Two young people—one mad and one sexually insatiable—both naked—are roaming this house. At all costs we must prevent a collision.
~ Joe Orton
Between 365 million and one billion birds die just from crashing into windows in the United States each year.
~ Anthony Doerr
there is no such thing as perpetuall Tranquillity of mind, while we live here; because Life it selfe is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare." God had something better in store for the righteous in heaven, but here below it was all buffeting and collision, both outside our heads and in them.
~ Anthony Gottlieb
You must have been going very fast." "I was, until I hit the fence.
~ Anthony Horowitz
When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you collision crash it with the low art of the tacky garden gnome, you're going to have lots and lots of opportunity for fun and putting your tongue very firmly in your cheek.
~ David Furnish
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is 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
A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.
~ Ronnie Barker
A ship carrying red paint collided with another one carrying purple paint. Both crews are thought to be marooned.
~ Ronnie Barker
A cement mixer collided with a prison van. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for sixteen hardened criminals.
~ Ronnie Corbett
Always, everywhere, the world is filled with collisions.
~ Luke Davies
A story happens when two equally appealing forces, or characters, or ideas try to occupy the same place at the same time, and they're both right.
~ Amy Hempel
get uptake." Some complaints get uptake, which is to say, they come off, they survive a collision.
~ Sara Ahmed