23 Collision Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

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

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Most Jupiter-sized planets orbit the mother star in a highly elliptical orbit. This means they will often cross the orbit of any Earth-like planet and fling it into outer space, making life impossible. But our Jupiter travels in a near-perfect circular orbit, preventing a collision with any Earth-like planet, making life possible. Michio Kaku

Life Mother Impossible Space Will Our Circular Possible Outer Outer Space Cross Collision Preventing Highly Most Making Jupiter Any Often Orbit Planet Planets Means Fling Star Travels

When I came to the last line of 'Car Crash While Hitchhiking,' I read it as a pitiless statement of indifference: a refusal to warn the family of their impending collision, a refusal to help when miraculously spared, a refusal to act on the empathy hiding behind the story's language. Anthony Marra

Family Language Car Statement Hiding Miraculously Indifference Collision Impending Empathy Read Came Line Behind Refusal Crash Story While Spared Warn Act Help Last

Changing the asteroid's velocity changes the time when the asteroid crosses Earth's orbit. After all, just because it crosses Earth's path doesn't mean there is necessarily going to be a collision. It has to cross Earth's path when the Earth is right there. Carrie Nugent

Time Path Changes Changing Asteroid Earth Cross Collision Crosses Velocity Because Going Orbit Just Just Because After Mean Right Necessarily

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. Corey Taylor

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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. David Nevins

Big Dramatic Eye Lies Silly Collision Wink Shameless Like Look Comedic House Real Go Very Stories Disparate Moments Tones

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. Duffy Daugherty

Dancing Collision Football Contact Sport

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. Dylan Moran

Home Family Me You Yourself People Job Gigs Cartoon Collision More More Than Anything Part Self-Conscious Feel Performance Know Because Audience Doing Odd Than Quite Anything Which Acting Hard Who Presenting

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. Frank Gehry

Democracy People Build Whatever Thinking Chaos Cities Collision Give Something Guy He Obviously Does Up Want Door Wants Create Creates Next Next Door Means

I've seen elbows that broke eye sockets. I've seen a German goalkeeper just level a French guy. His teammates thought he was dead lying on the ground. This was in 1982 at my first World Cup. But a bite is outside any kind of contact collision: dirty foul play. A bite is a bite. George Vecsey

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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. Heidi Hammel

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. Jim Breyer

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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. Lee Kuan Yew

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However long, it's definitely the presence of other people that brings out the weirdness - that collision of your own way of being with the everyday lives of others, the abrupt awareness - always a surprise no matter how often it's happened - that their lives are very different from your own. Lynn Coady

People Matter Long Own Awareness Other Others Everyday Everyday Lives Way Definitely Out Collision Abrupt Weirdness Always How However Surprise Very Often Being Different Happened Your Lives Presence Brings

Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers. Nancy Gibbs

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The waves travel with the velocity of light and slightly squeeze and stretch space transverse to the direction of their motion. The first waves we measured came from the collision of two black holes each about 30 times the mass of our sun. Rainer Weiss

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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. Richard Eyre

World First Big Become Think Conspicuous Collision More More And More Between Cliff Got Climb Going Third Third World

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. Seth Shostak

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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. Yuan T. Lee

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