Quotes about Collision

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean. Votes: 5

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts. Votes: 5

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

Life is a series of random collisions. Votes: 3

Life is a series of collisions with the future. Votes: 3

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Votes: 3

Collision with the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self Votes: 3

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport... Votes: 3

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. Votes: 3

Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste. Votes: 3

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man. Votes: 3

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling. Votes: 3

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings. Votes: 3

I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas. Votes: 3

In Architecture there is a part that is the result of Logical Reasoning and a part that is created through the Senses. There is always a point where they Clash. I don't think Architecture can be created without that Collision. Votes: 3

Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. Votes: 3

The reality, as I have come to understand it, is that the future is not fixed, and that therefore it cannot be reliably predicted. Consciousness interacts with vast archetypal fields of possibility and probability. What actually happens is the result of the collision of both forces. Votes: 3

When the wind carries a cry which is meaningful to human ears, it is simpler to believe the wind shares with us some part of the emotion of Being than that the mysteries of a hurricane's rising murmur reduce to no more than the random collision of insensate molecules. Votes: 3

We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often the two simply continue without incident, neither losing more than a particle to the other, in passing. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. Votes: 2

Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

A novel is a collision of ideas. Three or four threads may be floating around in the writer's consciousness, and at a single moment in time, these ideas collide and produce a novel. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is that the way the Titanic was designed, the emphasis was placed on surviving a head-on collision. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre. Votes: 2

Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want. Votes: 2

The collision of mobile and social platforms and the need to build these companies from the ground up - whether it's a game, a healthcare application, an education application - building these from the ground up is what allows entrepreneurial activity to be unleashed. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

From 1945 to 1991, China was engaged in a series of wars that nearly broke them. This generation has been through hell: the Great Leap Forward, hunger, starvation, near collision with the Russians - the Cultural Revolution gone mad. I have no doubt that this generation wants a peaceful rise. Votes: 2

I've always been into computers. When I was getting out of high school and forming my identity musically, all of it was really coming into the fold, computers and drum machines. It felt like, you know, I'm in the right place at the right time. I liked the collision. Votes: 2

The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A Mars-sized asteroid - one of the countless planetesimals that were frantically churning our solar system into existence - hit the infant Earth, bequeathing it a very large natural satellite. Votes: 2

Home gigs can be hard because it's an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the audience. I'm doing this job which is not quite acting - part of it is me, part performance. You're presenting a cartoon of yourself to people who know you as a line-drawing. Votes: 2

I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs... I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

When myth meets myth, the collision is very real. Votes: 0

A collision at sea can ruin your entire day. Votes: 0

Football is not a contact sport. Its a collision sport Votes: 0

The price for men in motion is the occasional collision... Votes: 0

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head. Votes: 0

Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport. Votes: 0

Belief systems thrive in circumstances of collision. They are energized by their opposites. Votes: 0

She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare. Votes: 0

The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax. Votes: 0

When media make war against each other, it is a case of world- views in collision. Votes: 0

In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds. Votes: 0

At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality. Votes: 0

...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion. Votes: 0

Life is an endless sea of admiration, in constant collision with those who have aspired, to feel inspired once again. Votes: 0

An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him. Votes: 0

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods Votes: 0

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind. Votes: 0

I think that in today's world the right to privacy and freedom of the press are set on a collision course. Votes: 0

Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful ... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are ignored. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and road capacity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

HARRY, THIS IS NO TIME TO BE A GENTLEMAN!" Wood roared as Harry swerved to avoid collision. "KNOCK HER OFF HER BROOM IF YOU HAVE TO! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction. ... Men (and women) are not as different from molecules as they think. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtly haunting briny quality that all small towns have when they are situated on the sea Votes: 0

"Sooner or later disasters such as an asteroid collision or a nuclear war could wipe us all out, But once we spread out into space and establish independent colonies, our future should be safe." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0