Plane Crashes Quotes

• Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Next, Crash, Save A Life

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• Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Failure, People, Safety

  The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2012.

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• You want to be upper class, you want to be first class, but when the plane crash, everybody dead.

  Kanye West

  Class, Want, Firsts

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• The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Teamwork, Communication, Errors

  Malcolm Gladwell (2008). “Outliers: The Story of Success”, p.127, Penguin UK

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• Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.

  Werner Herzog

  Greek, Luck, Tragedy

  "Courting Disaster: Werner Herzog". Interview with Darrell Hartman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 28, 2009.

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• If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Travel, Airplane

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• Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

  Muhammad Ali

  Hurt, Believe, Past

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• 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.

  Reba McEntire

  Mad, Reason, Crash

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 25, 2005.

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• I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD... I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it

  Jim Morrison

  Sleep, Smell, Missing

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• Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

  Steven Wright

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be alive! I'm just grateful to be here at all.

  Travis Barker

  Grateful, Alive, Crash

  "Former Blink-182 Drummer Travis Barker Says He's 'Thankful to Be Alive' After Plane Crash". www.foxnews.com. October 8, 2008.

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• 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.

  Steven Johnson

  Achievement, Flying, President

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• The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.

  Gene Tierney

  Change, Crash, Planes

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• 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.

  Godfried Danneels

  College, June, Boston

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• 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.

  Linda McCartney

  Mother, Hate, Home

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• If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.

  Eddie Murphy

  Country, Opportunity, Watches

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution...Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.

  Paul Virilio

  Technology, Negativity, Progress

  Paul Virilio, Philippe Petit, Sylvère Lotringer (1999). “Politics of the Very Worst”, Semiotext

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• I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He's got all those techniques. If your plane crashes into the jungle somewhere, he would be the guy you would want to have with you.

  Wes Anderson

  Eagles, Play, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When a plane crashes and some die while others live, a skeptic calls into question God's moral character, saying that he has chosen some to live and others to die on a whim; yet you say it is your moral right to choose whether the child within you should live or die. Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral. When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Children, Character, Sound

  Ravi Zacharias (2008). “End of Reason”, p.60, Harper Collins

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• I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

  Tom Stoppard

  Music, Mean, Two

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Tom Stoppard: plays”

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• As for breaking up, once the relationship is over, you never really know what went wrong; you just feel nauseous whenever the subject comes to mind. After a plane crash there's the black box that tells the FAA what caused the crack-up. Too bad there's no black box of relationships.

  Linda Sunshine

  Divorce, Over You, Black

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• In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear accidents. This despite the fact that these three combined have killed fewer people in the past half-century than car accidents do in any given year.

  Will Self

  Past, Order, Years

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• The big horrible thing isn't the plane crash or the earthquake or the diagnosis. When those things occur, we act, we know what to do. We live or we die. Hell is what we do in the meantime. It is the ways we starve our souls as we prepare for the future that never comes as planned. The true disaster is living the life in your mind and missing the one in front of you.

  Geneen Roth

  Live Life, Earthquakes, Missing

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• Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.

  Chris Cleave

  Doctors, Giving, Pickles

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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