Rail Quotes - Page 7

• It's hard to overemphasize how important Ford's deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first. Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.

  Alan Greenspan

  Years, Creative, Important

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.72, Penguin

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• When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Wise, Innovation, Prejudice

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.52, Booklassic

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• The entrances I make now, when we kick in the door of a high-risk warrant, eighty percent of the homes we're kicking into, it's dark in there for some reason. That's just the way the bad guys are doing it now. So now all of my sights are night sights; I've also put special light rails on the bottom of all of them so I can put a special light on them that's combination white light/laser.

  Steven Seagal

  Home, Dark, Night

  "Choose Your Weapon: Steven Seagal Talks His Favorite Guns". Complex Interview, www.complex.com. February 12, 2010.

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• Justice? Who asks for justice? We make our own justice ... Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.

  Frank Herbert

  Long, Justice, Use

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.421, Penguin

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• It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument in its favor? If one would be employed or amused through life, should we not make choice of a passion that will keep one long in play?

  William Shenstone

  Passion, Ambition, Play

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.99

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• A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Tasks, Discrimination

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales”, p.250, tredition

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• Some men are searching for the Holy Grail, but there ain't nothing sweeter than riding the rail. Pregnant women and Vietnam vets, beggin on the freeway, bout as hard as it gets.

  Tom Waits

  Men, Holy Grail, Riding

  "Song: 'Cold Water' ('Mule Variations')". 1999.

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• Let those who think the soul is shallow rail, They must be warned before they dare to leap They'll plunge into the twilight depths where sweep In ceaseless thirst great teeth too swift to fail.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Twilight, Thinking, Soul

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• Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.

  Shane MacGowan

  Pain, Suffering, Pleasure

  1997 In Loaded, Nov.

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• To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.

  George Stephenson

  Pockets, Patents, My Own

  Samuel Smiles, George Stephenson (1857). “The life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer”, p.195

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• Half-Life is the finest implementation of a game on rails anybody has ever done

  Warren Spector

  Games, Done, Half

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• I don't do my show for critics. Early on I did, because I'm a nice guy and I like to be liked by everybody, and I thought, "Hey, I'm just making people laugh, what's the big deal?" There have been all different types of comics that appeal to all different types of people. Why rail on me? But yeah, they really don't like Southern acts.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Nice, People, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board is established in 1946 in an effort to discover the cause of the brown cloud hanging over the city and decide how to combat and disperse it. In 1949, after intense lobbying from both the automobile and oil industries, and against the recommendations and position of the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board, the public rail system, which at one time was the largest in the world, and still serves a majority of the city's population, is decommissioned and torn out. It is replaced by a small fleet of buses.

  James Frey

  Air, Cities, Pollution Control

  James Frey (2008). “Bright Shiny Morning”, p.292, Hachette UK

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• We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.

  William Hazlitt

  Opportunity, Giving, Faults

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1472, Delphi Classics

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• The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.

  James Russell Lowell

  Winter, Swans, Snow

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.379

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• once a policy, like a set of steel rails, had been laid down for him by his superiors, his obedience ran along it unswerving.

  Kylie Tennant

  Steel, Obedience, Policy

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• That, let us rail at women, scorn and flout 'em,
  We may live with, but cannot live without 'em.

  Frederic Reynolds

  Women, Ems, May

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• In my heart, I'm always in my rail-hosen.

  Alex Ebert

  Heart, My Heart

  "On the Train with Mumford & Edward Sharpe Tour". Interview with Barry Walters, www.spin.com. April 27, 2011.

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• To rail and rant against tyranny is to manifest inferiority, for there is no tyranny but ignorance; to be conscious of one's powers is to lose consciousness of tyranny. Self government is not a remote aim. It is an intimate and inescapable fact. To govern oneself is a natural imperative, and all tyranny is the miscarriage of self government. The first requisite of freedom is to accept responsibility for the lack of it.

  E.C. Riegel

  Ignorance, Miscarriage, Responsibility

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• Richard Dawkins says he can't be sure God doesn't exist. Well, you know what I do when I'm not sure about something? I go on a big crusade about it and write a bunch of books on the subject. No, wait, that sounds more like what someone with a mental disorder would do. That's one of the crazy things about lots of atheists: They're whole movement is supposed to be about being logical and reasonable, yet they tend to rail against religion is a very mindless way that doesn't seem to serve any more purpose than a tantrum. Perhaps I just don't understand their strong faith in not having faith.

  Frank J. Fleming

  Strong, Atheist, Crazy

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• They may rail at this life - from the hour I began it,
  I've found it a life full of kindness and bliss;
  And until they can show me some happier planet.
  More social and bright, I'll content me with this.

  Michael Moore

  Kindness, May, Bliss

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• The past gives you no justice. Sentences are passed. But that doesn't mean you get justice. You can stand there forever and rail and say, 'Someone has to pay. I want what was taken from me.' But you're just going to get silence coming back at you. The past doesn't pay. We pay. And we're all free to decide when we've had enough.

  Michael Hainey

  Taken, Mean, Past

  Michael Hainey (2013). “After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• The Chinese are more successful [in building infrastructure] because in their country, only three people make the decision. ... In a country where only three people make the decision, they can decide where to put their rail line, get the money, and do it. We don't do it that way in America.

  Ray LaHood

  Country, Successful, America

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• The iron rail proved a magicians' road. It virtually reduced England to a sixth of its size. It brought the country nearer to the town and the town to the country.... It energized punctuality, discipline, and attention; and proved a moral teacher by the influence of example.

  Samuel Smiles

  Country, Teacher, Iron

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• I was never a rail-thin person.

  Jessica Capshaw

  Persons

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