Quotes of: Collision Keyword

An end is only a beginning in disguise.

An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

To assist us in climbing the mountains is marvelous. To level the mountains and altogether eliminate the climb is miraculous. And at times I think that God prefers the latter because it emboldens us to face the former.

An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

If the road behind me is not growing ever longer, then it is likely that the feet underneath me are not moving any longer. And if my feet are not moving, I have somehow, somewhere traded this most glorious journey for lesser endeavors.

An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

If I am so terribly limited as to view my handicaps as nothing more than lamentable limitations, then I have taken some of my greatest God-given assets and completely handicapped them.

An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

It is not within my power to refuse the journey of life regardless of the nature of my fears or the depth of my selfishness, for the definitions of ‘journey’ and ‘life’ are indistinguishably synonymous. I can however sufficiently inhibit them...

An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

[after the collision] Jack: This is bad!

Titanic

It‘s utterly astounding that every time I get knocked down God’s mercy compassionately raises me to my feet; His grace thoroughly brushes off every trace of assorted filth I accumulated in the fall, His word precisely recalibrates my direction to...

An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

The Hmong never had any interest in ruling over the Chinese or anyone else; they wanted merely to be left alone, which, as their later history was also to illustrate, may be the most difficult request any minority can make of a majority culture.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

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

Duffy Daugherty

Home-plate collisions are something you cannot ignore.

Joe Torre

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

Yahoo Serious

As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. For want of anything better to do, we became fans of collisions. Sometime...

Breakfast of Champions

In the year 3,000,002,012 the Andromeda Galaxy may collide with our Milky Way. At first this sounds miserable, like a collision of two bird flocks. But galaxy members fly farly, not tip to tip. In a galactic collision the stars do not actually collid...

Things That Are

Y’look like someone told you they’d stopped making lube.

Collision Course

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

Harold Brodkey

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.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

So, if you're a doctor, how can you recognize that you're having a feeling? Some tips from Dr. Zinn: Most emotions have physical counterparts. Anxiety may be associated with a tightness of the abdomen or excessive diaphoresis; anger may be manifested...

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the Palomar reflector; collisions between and among them do, of course, occur. But these collisions are ve...

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

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

James Thurber

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

Henry Clay