Top 174 Collision Quotes & Sayings

It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.

Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.

She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.

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All music is just a collision of sounds until you know its internal conventions and understand the nuances. It's a question of familiarity.

The heart of salvation is the Cross of Christ. The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much. The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God.

Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are ignored.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.

I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool.

The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

General," said the commander of the delinquent brigade, "I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy.

An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

The funny thing is just the collision of genres, taking one medium and trying to ram it into another medium, whether it fits or not.

When media make war against each other, it is a case of world-views in collision.

I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn't end with some kind of big, crazy shootout and blood spill, but more of a collision of ideas and a discussion of ethics.

In Michigan recently a man won a lawsuit for substantial damages because, he claimed, a rear-end collision in his car had made him a homosexual.

I like stories with a collision of disparate tones. Look at 'Shameless' or 'House of Lies'. They go from big, silly, and comedic to very real dramatic moments in the wink of an eye.

What's special about Miami is the collision of cultures. And the white sand beaches and fantastic restaurants.

It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.

Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

Collision with the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self

Belief systems thrive in circumstances of collision. They are energized by their opposites.

Most people have already seen a cosmic collision. If you've seen a shooting star ever, you've seen a cosmic collision, because a shooting star is not a star. It's a tiny dust or pea sized fragment of an asteroid or a comet hitting our atmosphere and burning up as it hits in, as it comes in.

The pattern is clear: if we could speed up time, it would seem as if the global economy is crashing against the earth - the Great Collision.

I think that in today's world the right to privacy and freedom of the press are set on a collision course.

At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.

Molecular collision dynamics has been a wonderful area of research for all practitioners. This is especially true for those who were following the footsteps of pioneers and leaders of the field twenty years ago.

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange.

If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the body Has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit, Felt in the tingling bruises of collision, And known to captains as esprit de corps.

We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.

Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now with climate change, yet we dither.

The early Christians felt a deep collision with the empire in which they lived, and with politics as usual. They carelessly crossed party lines and built subversive friendships. And we should do that too.

'V-Wars' is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, ethics, politics and an exploration of what defines us as human.

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars

Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center.

Almost any football play, even an off-tackle slant by a running back, offers the balletic beauty of athletic skill and the punishing drama of physical collision.

I like searching for the collision detection boundaries, finding invincibility glitches, and purposefully doing other stuff that normal players aren't supposed to do. In order words, I'm a bug checker.

From the results so far obtained it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the long-range atoms arising from collision of alpha particles with nitrogen are not nitrogen atoms but probably atoms of hydrogen, or atoms of mass 2. If this be the case, we must conclude that the nitrogen atom is disintegrated under the intense forces developed in a close collision with a swift alpha particle, and that the hydrogen atom which is liberated formed a constituent part of the nitrogen nucleus.

The price for men in motion is the occasional collision.

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

Every book in the 'Dreams' cycle dramatizes a particular epoch in the ongoing cultural collision between North America's native peoples and its European colonizers.

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.

For me, a great meal is a collision of company, environment, ambient temperature, the waiters, where you are emotionally.

The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render it morbidly sensitive to the most trifling collision.

Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport.

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

I came out on the losing end of a home-plate collision enough times that I truly had to consider the risk.

I got poked in the left eye on the collision. My vision is blurry in that eye. I had to play. It was for coach, and because it was a district game.

There’s nothing in the world worse than having an opportunity that you’re not prepared for. Good luck usually follows the collision of opportunity and preparation - it’s a result of that collision. You’ve got to be prepared. So, make your mistakes now and make them quickly. If you’ve made the mistakes, you know what to expect the next time. That’s how you become valuable.

In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds.

I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.