Congestion Quotes

• In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness.... The expanses are so great that the little man hasn't the resources to orient himself.... This is what I think about Russian suicides.

  Anton Chekhov

  Suicide, Men, Thinking

  Letter to D. V. Grigorovich, February 5, 1888.

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• Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony - this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Stress, Holiday, Vacation

  "Cool Memories".

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• We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways.

  Corrine Brown

  Moving, Citizens, Way

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• Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems.

  Bill Lipinski

  Sexy, Issues, Important

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• Constant rhythmical movement is necessary to health and harmony. Much ill health is due to emotional congestion.

  Emmet Fox

  Healing, Health, Emotional

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• There's no traffic jam on the extra mile.

  Zig Ziglar

  Jam, Miles, Traffic

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 21, 2014

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• People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It's a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it's the togetherness of modern technology.

  J. G. Ballard

  Italian, Technology, Cities

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• I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

  Larry King

  Worst Person, Jam, Stuck In Traffic

  Larry King, Greg King, Peter Occhiogrosso (1989). “Tell It to the King”, Jove

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• Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.

  Lewis Mumford

  Obesity, Lanes, Traffic

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• One expect summed it up by saying: "Trying to cure traffic congestion by building more roads is like trying to cure obesity by loosening your belt." One study of 30 California counties over several decades found that, for every 10% increase in road capacity, traffic increased by 9% within four years.

  David B. Sandalow

  Years, California, Trying

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• Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.

  Jack Dangermond

  Loss, Our World, Cities

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• As consumer adoption of wireless devices continues to soar, Wi-Fi congestion is becoming a critical problem for consumers and innovators.

  Julius Genachowski

  Adoption, Becoming, Problem

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• I feel that nasal spray is a wondrous medical achievement, because it is supposed to relieve nasal congestion, and by gadfrey, it relieves nasal congestion. What I'm saying is that it actually works, which is something you can say about very few other aspects of the medical establishment.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Doctors

  Dave Barry (1989). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, Ballantine Books

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• As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Average, Car, Progress

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• Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.

  Jane Jacobs

  People, Traffic, Vehicle

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.229, Vintage

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• It is environmental illiteracy and a complete lack of forward thinking to ignore the need to halt and then reverse population growth in the context of climate change, travel congestion, unaffordable housing, and resource depletion

  Phil Harding

  Thinking, Growth, Environmental

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• Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once losing faith in it as the basis for a desirable modern culture. Manhattan's architecture is a paradigm for the exploitation of congestion.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Density, Culture, Manhattan

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• Morning exercise, walking in the free, invigorating air of heaven, or cultivating flowers, small fruits, and vegetables, is the surest safeguard against colds, coughs, congestion of the brain, inflammation of the liver, the kidneys, and the lungs, and a hundred other diseases.

  Ellen G. White

  Morning, Flower, Exercise

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Miscellaneous Periodical Articles - Book II of III”, p.775, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.

  Prince Philip

  Edinburgh, Tourism, Classic

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• Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration.

  Van Day Truex

  Color, Design, Needs

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• I know I've got to pay some tax, but I hate the fact that they collect millions of pounds a day from the congestion charge and I don't see anything or anyone benefitting from it. Where are the new hospitals?

  Ray Winstone

  Hate, Pay, Facts

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• If you sell me a car, we have perhaps made a good bargain for ourselves. But there are effects of this transaction on others, which we do not take into account. There is more pollution, the price of gas goes up, there is more congestion.

  Noam Chomsky

  Car, Pollution, Made

  "The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. October 10, 2008.

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• Raising the congestion charge won't necessarily make a difference. Rather than increasing the amount you pay in congestion charge, we should be thinking about an ultra low emission zone. We should penalise those cars who are the biggest polluters and reward cars that don't, like electric cars.

  Sadiq Khan

  Thinking, Differences, Car

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• The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.

  Benjamin Graham

  Technique, Expansion, World

  "World Commodities and World Currencies". Book by Benjamin Graham. Chapter I, The Problem of Raw Materials, p. 5, 1944.

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• This congestion in the post offices is due to what are technically known as "regulations" but what are really a series of acrostics and anagrams devised by some officials who got around a table one night and tried to be funny.

  Robert Benchley

  Night, Office, Modern Life

  Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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