Rail Quotes

175 quotes by 147 authors

He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail against… — Kelly Corrigan
... not once more will/I be found with beings/who swallowed the rail of life//And one day I found myself with beings/who swallowed the nail of… — Antonin Artaud
That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my mind - there… — Charles Bukowski
When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you've created together collapses, and that everything you… — Helen Fielding
Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the… — Herman Melville
Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man… — Homer
I gave him a kick and he stepped back onto the third rail. Exploding, flaming eraser! This is why moms tell you to stay away… — James Patterson
Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of… — Walter Scott
They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they call Wilson 'just… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Just sit tight. Reinforcements should be here soon. Hopefully nothing happens before-" Lightning crackled overhead. The wind picked up with a vengeance. Worksheets flew into… — Rick Riordan
Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear… — William Shakespeare
When it is winter and we must walk in the blizzard snow do not our fingers and toes whisper death Â And when winter is at… — Martine Leavitt
If You Have A Lemon, Make A Lemonade That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite. If he finds… — Dale Carnegie
Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that heâ€™s been robbed. The fact is… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Rail is such an undignified way to travel. All that rapid racing about. Floating has so much more gravitas. — Gail Carriger
He had the same empty confusion in his eyes that I saw in my mirror every morning, that odd sort of denial that only seems… — Mira Grant
Down through the years my face has been called a sour puss, a dead pan, a frozen face, The Great Stone Face, and, believe it… — Buster Keaton
You do realize you just insulted me, right?" "How so?" "You implied that I can't protect her or my people." I looked at him. "That's… — Ilona Andrews
Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn… — Joe Hill
there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. — Charles Bukowski

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