Rail Quotes - Page 10

• It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.

  Eric Topol

  Blood, People, Pressure

  "Beat High Blood Pressure". Interview with Steven Stiefel, www.menshealth.com. February 18, 2015.

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• When you look at how American national freight systems are connected, it's a bit of a patchwork. When you look at how even road systems and rail systems work across state lines, it's a bit of a patchwork.

  Anthony Foxx

  Looks, Lines, States

  Source: www.politico.com

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• It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.

  Moliere

  Hatred, Humanity, Twenties

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• When a miser contents himself with giving nothing, and saving what he has got, and is in other respects guilty of no injustice, he is, perhaps, of all bad men the least injurious to society; the evil he does is properly nothing more than the omission of the good he might do. If, of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested, it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Hate, Men, Omission

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• Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.

  Susanna Centlivre

  Age, Youth, Pleasure

  Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The perjur'd husband. The beau's duel. The gamester. The basset-table. Love at a venture. The stolen heiress”, p.205

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• Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.

  George Edward Moore

  Cities, Taverns, Noble

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• There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.

  William Shakespeare

  Fool, Slander

  William Shakespeare, Keir Elam (2008). “Twelfth Night: Third Series”, p.190, A&C Black

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• The main problem with rail is flexibility and affordability.

  Mark Noble

  Problem, Affordability, Flexibility

  Source: www.columbusunderground.com

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• In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car

  John Moody

  Car, Three, United States

  John Moody (1919). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

  John Webster

  Men, Ruins, Belief

  John Webster (2016). “The Duchess of Malfi”, p.65, John Webster

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• It feels good to push yourself into uncomfortable territory. There's nothing more thrilling than feeling like, "This train might just come off the rails right now, in front of these people".

  Christopher Paul Stelling

  People, Feel Good, Feelings

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• I fear that Donald Trump will continue to be followed around by the media in its totality as he continues to rail against Hillary Clinton.

  Ani DiFranco

  Media, Clinton, Trump

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Myself and Yorgos Lanthimos, we spoke a little bit and I was at a certain body weight that I was closer to making a statement or defining the character physically by losing weight. There was no justification for him to be emaciated, but I thought, say I was 165, I thought what if I went down to 155 and have him rail-thin? And Yorgos was like, "Well, if he's very thin I think maybe it will speak to some kind of psychological trouble that we want to stay away from," and I was like, "F - -, you're right."

  Colin Farrell

  Character, Thinking, Body Weight

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Cars would be safer on rails!

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Car, Would Be

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My father was a cotton farmer first and - but he didn't have any land or what land he had, he lost it in the Depression. So he worked as a woodman and cut pulpwood for the paper mills, rode the rails in boxcars going from one harvest to another to try to make a little money picking fruit or vegetables.

  Johnny Cash

  Father, Cutting, Land

  Source: wrvo.org

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• In the US after the Great Depression, they invested heavily in infrastructure to create a lot of employment. In Germany after the war there was the Marshall plan for roads, rail, housing, energy, water and so on. That created massive employment after the devastation of the war and helped them to rebuild the country.

  Raila Odinga

  Country, War, Water

  Source: concernedkenyan.blogspot.com

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• Just the fact that we can't pass budgets in our Congress, just the fact that we are gridlocked in our own democracy, the fact that everybody who travels can see that we're not investing in our airports, in our rail, in our infrastructure and so forth, people are noticing a United States that is not getting the job done in some ways.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Airports, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• One of the issues that I have raised in that context is our transport system, road, rail and ports. We have raised this before, that the South African economy has grown at a rate that has overtaken the capacity of the transport system. And therefore, we have said that it is necessary to expand our capacity in the ports.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Issues, Economy, Said

  Source: www.gov.za

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• Human needs are served by a sustainable lifestyle, almost by definition, if humans include coming generations. And a shift to such technologies as high-speed rail instead of maximizing fossil fuel use, and solar energy, is not "relentless resource extraction."

  Noam Chomsky

  Technology, Energy, Needs

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I do not see how we can rationally oppose high speed rail because of the environmental and other costs without considering the social and human consequences of the radical elimination of transportation that this entails.

  Noam Chomsky

  Environmental, Cost, Speed

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I think one big improvement would be if we somehow made it cheaper and easier for developing countries to learn from the sad experience of some of the developed countries, and also from some of the positive experiences we have of building good transportation systems, like high-speed rail.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The "Green" community, the enviro people, are preoccupied with running all the cars differently. Our techno-grandiosity has us gibbering about high-speed rail - which we don't have the capital for anymore - but nobody is interested in repairing the existing rail system, which would be far less costly and hugely beneficial for us. In short, we are acting cluelessly. And life is tragic. The clueless usually suffer.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Running, Clueless, Car

  Source: www.terrain.org

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• Instead of basic roads and bridges, infrastructure spending will go to bloated unions overseeing pie-in-the-sky construction projects like the $30 billion-plus high-speed rail line from Los Angeles to San Francisco, which California officials fully expect to be funded.

  Michelle Malkin

  Bridges, California, Pie

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• The first instrument I had was made in the late '70s. Back then they had basically one tuning. I shifted slightly away from that tuning right away (to what is now called the Baritone Melody Tuning), because I wanted more string overlap between the two sides.The instrument I currently play has an active pickup system, Fret Rails, a fully adjustible bridge, adjustible truss, Flaps adjustible nut. Even with all of these advances, I'm always struck when I play the older instrument how good they were even then. Emmett's always been great at implementing his ideas.

  Greg Howard

  Bridges, Play, Two Sides

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• The job of conservatives is to keep the Republican Party driving on the right-hand side of the road. There are many ways we do this. We argue, we publish, we lobby, we campaign for conservative candidates. Another thing we do is, when the GOP goes off the rails on really key issues - size of government, the National Question, Wilsonian adventures - we stay home on election day.

  John Derbyshire

  Jobs, Party, Home

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