. . . you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.
Collision with the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self
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.
. . . Which brings me to the Hubble Space Telescope's newest images. If it's wonder that you're looking for, and mystery, don't just scan the photographs. Stop and think about them. Try to imagine the scale. The Earth is just a speck of dust on one distant whirling tentacle of the Milky Way galaxy, which contains billions of stars. A 'collision' of galaxies seems unimaginably large - and yet it is something scientists long ago imagined. . . The imaginings of pseudoscience are feeble by comparison.
If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.
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.
When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.
Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.
Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.
Life is a series of random collisions.
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.
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.
There are innumerable worlds of different sizes. In some there is neither sun not moon, in others they are larger than in ours and others have more than one. These worlds are at irregular distances, more in one direction and less in another, and some are flourishing, others declining. Here they come into being, there they die, and they are distroyed by collision with one another. Some of the worlds have no animal or vegetable life nor any water.
At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds.
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.
Most collisions out on the fields are needless.
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.
