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Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise. — W. S. Gilbert
The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or… — Sitting Bull
I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk. — D. H. Lawrence
Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually spent in doing… — George Orwell
Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I will tell you.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown — E. M. Forster
As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible… — Lynne Truss
I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side… — Nina Bawden
People's lives are in the care of the railways when they get on a train. The railways should remember that. — Nina Bawden
I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and… — Shirley Bassey
In England, they say that Manchester is the city of rain. It's main attraction is considered to the timetable at the railway station, where trains… — Nemanja Vidic
We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then… — William Makepeace Thackeray
People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors. — John Betjeman
Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink. — Paul Theroux
It is often said that the Japanese are extremely clean at home, or inside any house or office, but dirty and untidy outside. 'Go and… — George Mikes
Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale… — James Buchan
I met my second husband on a bus. We looked at each other and that was it. We were both married to other people at… — Nina Bawden
I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the film. — Claire Denis
It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of… — Anthony Trollope
The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing ‘money’ with ‘wealth’…Real… — Henry Hazlitt
If God had intended us to fly he would have given us railways. — Michael Flanders
Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine. — James J. Hill
[regarding US conquest of the Philippines] "I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's warfare in the… — Henry Adams
Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of… — Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

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