Passengers Quotes - Page 6

• We must convince each generation that they are but transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to doom generations yet unborn. They are not at liberty to erase humanity's past nor dim its future.

  Bernard Lown

  Inspiring, Past, Humanity

  Bernard Lown's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1985.

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• Elizabeth Taylor was so fat that whenever she went to London in a red dress, 30 passengers would try to board her.

  Joan Rivers

  Trying, Dresses, Boards

  "Joan Rivers dies: Celebrate comedian's life with her 80 bitchiest putdowns and funniest one-liners" by Steve Anglesey and Carl Greenwood, www.mirror.co.uk. September 04, 2014.

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• There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Self, Interesting, Records

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• For historical currents do not irresistibly propel themselves and everyone in their path. No matter what their broader structural or ideological roots, they both carry along and are carried along by people, who are not merely passengers of history, but pilots as well.

  Doug McAdam

  Roots, People, Historical

  Doug McAdam (1988). “Freedom Summer”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I'm one of those passengers who arrives at the airport five or six hours early so I can throw back a few drinks and muster up the courage to board the plane. Apparently I'm not alone because I've never been in an empty airport bar. I don't care what time you get there. Even at 8:00 a.m. you have to fight your way to the bar. At that hour, everyone drinks Bloody Marys so no one can tell it's booze- at least until they fall off their chair.

  Bob Newhart

  Fall, Fighting, Airports

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• Only on the third class tourist class passengers' deck was it a sultry overcast morning, but then if you do things on the cheap you must expect these things.

  Spike Milligan

  Morning, Class, Tourists

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• Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Average, Energy

  Ronald Reagan, Mark J. Green, Gail MacColl (1983). “There he goes again: Ronald Reagan's reign of error”, Pantheon

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• Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedom.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Thinking, Issues, Never Settle

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.27, Penguin

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• I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?

  David Byrne

  Wave, Bus, Bike

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• Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.

  Niki Lauda

  Running, Long, Competition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The seasick passenger on an ocean liner detests the good sailor who stalks past him 265 times a day grandly smoking a large, greasy cigar. In precisely the same way the democrat hates the man who is having a better time in the world. This is the origin of democracy. It is also the origin of Puritanism.

  H. L. Mencken

  Hate, Ocean, Past

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• The days of my youth, as I look back on them, seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale repetitive scraps like those morning snow storms of used tissue paper that a train passenger sees whirling in the wake of the observation car.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Morning, Car, Snow

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.6, Hamilton Books

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• Meditation is not concentration. It is simple awareness. You simply relax and watch the breathing. In that watching, nothing is excluded. The car is humming - perfectly okay, accept it. The traffic is passing - that's okay, part of life. The fellow passenger snoring by your side, accept it. Nothing is rejected. You are not to narrow down your consciousness.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Simple, Your Side

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• The passengers were on my aircraft, and I have to take responsibility for that.

  Tony Fernandes

  Responsibility, Taking Responsibility, Aircraft

  "AirAsia flight QZ8501: families receive brutal confirmation of lost plane's fate" by Peter Walker, Jonathan Kaiman, Paul Farrell and Michael Safi, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2014.

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• It often takes more courage to be a passenger than a driver.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Drivers, Inaction

  E. L. Konigsburg (1999). “The View from Saturday”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• In Europe, they travel a lot lighter. I always joke that my Indonesian passengers bring their house and their neighbors house.

  Tony Fernandes

  Europe, House, Neighbor

  "Talk Asia" with Andrew Stevens, www.cnn.com. October 24, 2007.

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• Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?

  George Eliot

  Punishment, Hands, Wave

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.311

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• Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Way, Casual

  William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.686, Delphi Classics

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• One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Morning, Sleep, Heaven

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.97

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• Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Weather, Advice, Pilots

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• My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get stabbed to death by terrorists and (b) that none of the other passengers try to talk to me. All conversation should end at the moment the wheels leave the ground.

  Anne Lamott

  Airplane, Ideas, Flying

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.55, Anchor

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• Imagine a ship that is sinking and needs all the available power to run the pumps to drain out the rising waters. The first class passengers refuse to cooperate because they feel hot and want to use the air-conditioner and other electrical appliances. The second-class passengers spend all their time trying to be upgraded to first-class status. The boat sinks and the passengers all drown. That is where the present approach to climate change is leading.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Running, Air, Class

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• In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, being Americans, are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied.

  Owen Wister

  Class, Car, Firsts

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• Some of our German passengers on the ship would be crying. The Brits were the same way. They were crying, because they realized a new war was about to break out across Europe, with Hitler at the head of the goose-stepping parade.

  Frank Buckles

  War, Europe, Would Be

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• Instead of the 1997 film directed, written, by James Cameron with Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane creating a love story and a large diamond with a beautiful song “My Heart Will Go On” sung by Celine Dion. What about the real love story that took place that night between the passengers themselves, and many crew members knowing they would also give their lives. Adding another meaning for “SOS” Service, Obedience, and Sacrifice.

  Tom Baker

  Beautiful, Song, Real

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