66 Oncoming Quotes

Following is our list of the most famous oncoming quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational oncoming quotes. Hopefully, these oncoming quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your oncoming knowledge!

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Famous Oncoming Quotes

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic. — Terry Pratchett

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic. — Terry Prachett

When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. — Steven Wright

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. - Jack Kerouac

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. — Jack Kerouac

Life is a series of collisions with the future. — Jose Ortega y Gasset

The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it. — Arnold Glasgow

I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming. — Mitch Hedberg

At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky. — Adyashanti

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's. — Joseph Campbell

Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise. — W. S. Gilbert

The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order. — Alvin Toffler

They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time. — Chesty Puller

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit. — David Suzuki

Free spirited free riders they're on their way but don't know where they're going. — Warren Miller

Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami. — Feist

Short Oncoming Quotes

  • If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train. — James Russell Lowell
  • The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train. — David Lee Roth
  • It's the light of the oncoming train. — Robert Lowell
  • The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind. — Bruce Springsteen
  • Uh uh uh, turning the car into oncoming traffic... is counterproductive! — Jim Carrey
  • The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer. — Steve Aylett
  • If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train. — Robert Lowell
  • The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train. — Robert Lowell
  • In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train. — Tina Brown
  • ...All I want to talk about is the oncoming apocalypse in my brain. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

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Read quotes by Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell
quotes on love, life and nature

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Read quotes by Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett
quotes on death, life and death and writing

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Read quotes by Terry Prachett

Terry Prachett
quotes on death, writing and love

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Read quotes by Steven Wright

Steven Wright
quotes on life, work

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Read quotes by Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac
quotes on love, road and death

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Read quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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More Oncoming Quotes

To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient sanctities of life, and in the other a flaming torch to light the way for oncoming generations. — Anna Garlin Spencer

I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral. — Philip Johnson

We feel the machine slipping from our hands As if someone else were steering; If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train. — Robert Lowell

Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements while it lasted. — James Connolly

The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train. — Paul Dickson

I think women are great drivers. To be honest, I've only been in one car accident - one of my best friends, his wife was driving. She went into oncoming traffic, our car flipped almost four times. I didn't even have time to put on a seat belt, because they'd just picked me up. — Dominic Cooper

There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over. — Navjot Singh Sidhu

All that is happening in art is part of a process of exploration and discovery. I hope to live for a few more years so that I can catch glimpses of the oncoming future. — Joseph Plaskett

Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were always the best and the strongest of cities, and our people were vital to the teeth. Knock them down eight times and they would get up with that look in the eye which suggests the fight has barely begun. — Norman Mailer

All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it was an oncoming train. — Terry Pratchett

If the oncoming mutation to interstellar immortality is screwed up by the politicians, it will be because those of us who see the opportunities in modern science are not adroit enough to outmaneuver the forces of inertia, stupidity and greed. Well, if we're not intelligent enough to overcome such obstacles, then we don't deserve to carry off the mutation at this stage of evolution. — Robert Anton Wilson

In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit. — Alfred North Whitehead

That's sort of what I try to do with music: to harness whatever energy is already there and see where that momentum takes me. Sometimes you're spinning that oncoming momentum in a different direction, or sometimes you're coercing it to consider itself, or sometimes you're holding it up to a mirror. But I don't really like to interrupt and come in and destroy everything and start all over. I'm not that kind of guy. — Pharrell Williams

When I look at the faces of turning drivers, I mostly see them looking in the direction of oncoming motorists rather than at the people they're about to turn into. — Robert James Thomson

I'm surprised when I see someone doing the logical, commonsense thing: Walk facing the oncoming traffic. — Robert James Thomson

Is it a bad sign when someone asks you about the person your dating and a tear falls from your eye as you leap into oncoming traffic? — Dov Davidoff

The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It's going to affect all of you in the same way the Second World War consumed people of my parent's generation. — Bill Nye

You can always avert throwing yourself in front of an oncoming train. There is something that just pulls you away - and it has pulled me away, because I'm not dead yet - just at the brink of impact. Sometimes I have been really grazed by that train. — Elizabeth Taylor

The vast silence of Buddha overtakes and overrules the oncoming roar of tragic life that fills alleys and avenues; it blocks the way of pedicabs, police, convoys. — Denise Levertov

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block... — Andre Maurois

One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if it shows itself capable of accomodating one's love; and jealously, because it can become the image of one's limitations in time and space, and yet can give the Proustian blessing of more life. — Harold Bloom

The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had been tugging me with disconcerting frequency these days. — Maggie Stiefvater

I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Can I confess something? I tell you this as an artist, I think you'll understand. Sometimes when I'm driving on the road at night I see two headlights coming toward me. Fast. I have this sudden impulse to turn the wheel quickly, head-on into the oncoming car. I can anticipate the explosion. The sound of shattering glass. The flames rising out of the flowing gasoline. — Christopher Walken

The idea of full dress in preparation for a battle comes not from a belief that it will add to the fighting ability. The preparation is for death, in case that should be the result of the conflict. Every Indian wants to look his best when he goes to meet the Great Spirit, so the dressing up is done whether in imminent danger is an oncoming battle or a sickness or injury at times of peace. — Wooden Leg

In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure to kill the evil spirits who are pursuing you, and all the rest of your life you will have good luck. — Robertson Davies

For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write. — Marya Hornbacher

I changed my mind," he said. "I'll take you up on helping me get a job." I almost swerved into oncoming traffic. — Richelle Mead

Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing. — Yann Martel

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