Quotes About Near-miss

A second later and they would have been dead." "Yeah, so if you'd taken the trouble to think about the problem a bit longer it would have gone away.

This life came so close to never happening.

June cackled with delight, muttering, Whoops! as a car almost killed them.

Well, Hem, all's well that ends well, but it almost ended very badly. Almost in disaster." Hem looked down, and his cheeks flushed. Cadvan patted his shoulder. "I forgive you for almost getting us killed, or worse," he said.

I understand now that nothing will ever happen between M and me, precisely because it has just come so close to happening and yet not happened.

God alone knew what they could have done if the buttons had not been noticed before they reached France!

Sylvie had almost missed this life with this man, and because of this near-miss, she appreciated their moments together, even as they accumulated.

I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.

Si te salvas por los pelos, quedas traumatizado. Si te salvas holgadamente, piensas que eres invencible.

Actually I dont know if it ever works out unless you are standing in the middle of the street and dont see the ten-ton truck coming and this good guy pushes you out of the way and says its for your own good.

Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear?

If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere.

All I seem to be doing this week is nearly getting killed and buying clothes

Remember that time in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, when we didn't die?

Once when I was standing at the base, they started rotating the set and a big, heavy wrench fell down from the 12 o'clock position of the set, and got buried in the ground a few feet from me. I could have been killed!

I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time.

close only counts in hand-grenades and horseshoes.

Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.

I've almost been hit by a lot of things in New York City. I am pretty sure I have almost been hit by a bike messenger before.

Dex was relieved Dr. Gage didn't reveal how they'd met yesterday — with Dex almost getting squashed by Dr. Gage's SUV.

Only missed being a jumper, or dying in the collapse, by five minutes. That ash on me, later I thought about it. That was people. Probably people I knew.

I thought you walked into my life but you didn't walk into it, you walked past it.

If it had gone in, it would have been a goal.