Rail Quotes
175 Rail quotes by 147 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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When it is winter and we must walk in the blizzard snow do not our fingers and toes whisper death And when winter is at…
— Martine Leavitt
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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
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Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he’s been robbed. The fact is…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Rail is such an undignified way to travel. All that rapid racing about. Floating has so much more gravitas.
— Gail Carriger
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be…
— Bob Goff
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To pretend I was sliding down the stair rail." He laughed again. " You should have done it. I would have caught you at the…
— Gail Carson Levine
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No one is here," Char said. "You need resist temptation no longer." "Only if you slide too." "I'll go first so I can catch you…
— Gail Carson Levine
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The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across the fields and…
— Neil Gaiman
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The others strapped themselves below - except for Coach Hedge, who insisted on clinging to the forward rail, yelling, "YEAH! Bring it on, Lake!
— Rick Riordan
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I'll wager I would have screwed things up regardless. But. . .can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords…
— Scott Lynch
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Perhaps, the answer is that my ravaged mind rails against the idea of God, but something deeper in me calls out as if God might…
— Parker J. Palmer
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The way innovating companies are designed leaves ambiguities, overlaps, decision conflicts or decision vacuums in some parts of the organisation. People rail at this, curse…
— Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face - or so I was told.
— Grace Jones
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Monorails have their own fan club, which claims more than 2,500 members who swap monorail toys and trinkets. Modern light rail can claim no such…
— Brendan I. Koerner
Who Wrote These Rail Quotes
147 authors contributed a total of 175 Rail Quotes, led by these top contributors: