Crash Quotes - page 2

In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety. (Karl Marx)
In our truly remarkable an unexampled civil peace, where there are rarely fist fights; where no one is born, is gravely ill, or dies; where meat is eaten but no one sees an animal slaughtered; where scores of millions of cars, trains, elevators, and airplanes go their scheduled way and there is rarely a crash; where an immense production proceeds in orderly efficiency and the shelves are duly clears-and nevertheless none of this come to joy or tragic grief or any other final good-it is not surprising if there are explosions. View quote
Paul Goodman
Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft. View quote
Rachel Kushner
The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable. View quote
Robert Ludlum
In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane transporting an atomic bomb would crash on American soil, unleashing a radioactive disaster the likes of which the world had never seen. View quote
Annie Jacobsen
We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad - amazing breakthroughs, such as a new gadget that gets released, or catastrophic failures, like a plane crash. View quote
Steven Johnson
It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime than you are to die in a plane crash. What an amazing achievement as a society! But what we end up focusing on are the catastrophic failures that are incredibly rare but happen every now and then. View quote
Steven Johnson
Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line. View quote
Stewart O'Nan
Ski racing, especially downhill, is a dangerous activity and there are many accidents. It would be really too bad to lose everything because of a crash. View quote
Hermann Maier
I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash. View quote
Brendan Fraser
The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash. (Garth Stein)
You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie. View quote
Robert Duvall
Remember, this thing is small. It's not like the wolfships. It'll ride over the waves, not crash through them. So we're safe as houses." He wasn't sure about the last two statements, but they seemed logical to him. View quote
John Flanagan
My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere. View quote
Linda McCartney
I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash. View quote
Keith Moon
Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn't know about why it happened. View quote
Reba McEntire
The more you fly, the more unsettling it is, because you realize how much more likely it will be for you to crash. I am getting better at it, though. View quote
Kit Harington
I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions. View quote
Bailee Madison
In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while. View quote
David Strathairn
Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0% balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy. View quote
Frances O'Grady
I certainly came up in an era where women were really making strides and making a point to beat down doors and find their place and crash through the glass ceiling. (Gina Torres)
The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College. View quote
Godfried Danneels
The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941. View quote
Gene Tierney
I had no desire to crash a man's world. View quote
Ida Lupino
There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today. View quote
Jackie Stewart