Rails Quotes
59 quotes by 54 authors
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And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which…
— Bruce Catton
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Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without…
— Watchman Nee
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It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost…
— Edith Wharton
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Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing…
— Jim Ryun
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There are no evil people; there are perfectly good people who are of the track, but they do not need condemnation or punishment; they only…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails,…
— Julian Fellowes
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. . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else . .…
— Geneen Roth
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But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock…
— Jeannette Walls
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When you’re in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you’re not swerving around and…
— Drew Houston
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Coming from having absolutely nothing to having a few grand in the bank, it was a big culture leap. I think that's why I went…
— Craig Charles
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Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate precisely to prevent…
— Nancy Gibbs
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Practice provides the rails on which knowledge flows.
— John Seely Brown
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Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I am not talking about what every one of us means by love. Little namby-pamby love is lovely. Man rails in love with woman, and…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Hurry, get on board, it's comin', listen to those rails a-thrumming all aboard. Get on the "A" train, soon you will be on Sugar Hill…
— Duke Ellington
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I've never fancied that footballer lifestyle. I suppose I could live that kind of flash life. People stereotype child actors and kind of expect you…
— Rupert Grint
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A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark,…
— William Shakespeare
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When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go…
— Stuart Rose
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It is only necessary that man should start a fence that Nature should carry it on and complete it. The farmer cannot plow quite up…
— Henry David Thoreau
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