Rail Quotes - Page 8

• Internationally, there are countries going well beyond the course, with airlines, transportation. There are systems around the world that have explored mining, rail transport, television, communication, Internet service - there very common examples around the world that we can draw examples from.

  Gar Alperovitz

  Country, Communication, Example

  Source: www.salon.com

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• It is true that we need a consensus to go forward with restoring passenger rail in America, and often a consensus is formed by political action, via government. That is all true. But we have no such consensus, and no one in government or politics these days has the will or the force of personality or perhaps even the understanding of the situation to get on with job of forming a consensus supporting rail.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Jobs, America, Government

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• Since we don't have a tyrant or a dictator, we can't put people who are burning flag in jail. But Donald Trump is telling you what he thinks of 'em. He's not gonna do anything of the sort. This is where people go off the rails with Trump, with this literal business and so fort

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, People, Dictator

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• People should absolutely have a point of view about the political process themselves individually, but we're also at a point in the evolution of capitalism where any one individual's impacts are over estimated because there is enough regulation and guard rails. They may be odious and grotesque in what they say, but the practical day-to-day impacts from a policy perspective tend to be limited because the system made it so. That's why you see a lot of political apathy because people have internalized the inability for anyone either really really good or really really bad to do anything.

  Chamath Palihapitiya

  Perspective, People, Political

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Car, Movement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.161

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• I had no need of sails to drive me, nor oars nor wheels to push me, nor rails to give me a faster road. Air is what I wanted, that was all. Air surrounds me as water surrounds the submarine boat, and in it my propellers act like the screws of a steamer. That is how I solved the problem of aviation. That is what a balloon will never do, nor will any machine that is lighter than air.

  Jules Verne

  Air, Giving, Water

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• I know loads of coppers and dealt with them a lot when I was a journalist - coppers are easy to write for; they tend to run on rails.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Writing, Easy

  Source: boingboing.net

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• So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about an Elephant Not one of them has seen!

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Religious, War, Ignorance

  John Godfrey Saxe (1873). “The Poems of John Godfrey Saxe”, p.261

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• I can by no means approve the scurrility and contempt with which the Romanists have often been treated. I dare not rail at, or despise, any man: much less those who profess to believe in the same Master. But I pity them much; having the same assurance, that Jesus is the Christ, and that no Romanist can expect to be saved, according to the terms of his covenant.

  John Wesley

  Jesus, Believe, Mean

  John Wesley, John Emory (1835). “The works of the late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: from the latest London edition with the last corrections of the author, comprehending also numerous translations, notes, and an original preface, etc”, p.151

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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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• 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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• there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.

  Charles Bukowski

  Waiting, Pull Ups, Train

  Charles Bukowski (2016). “On Love”, p.9, Canongate Books

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• I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we've already been. They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.

  Bob Goff

  School, College, Thinking

  Bob Goff (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.207, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• To pretend I was sliding down the stair rail." He laughed again. " You should have done it. I would have caught you at the bottom.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Should Have, Done, Caught

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• No one is here," Char said. "You need resist temptation no longer." "Only if you slide too." "I'll go first so I can catch you at the bottom." He flew down so incautiously that I suspected him of years of practice in his own castle. It was my turn. The ride was a dream, longer and steeper than the rail at home. The hall rose to meet me, and Char was there. He caught me and spun me around.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Dream, Home, Years

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• The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across the fields and coming down the lane with me, then.

  Neil Gaiman

  Fields, Lanes, Happens

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• The others strapped themselves below - except for Coach Hedge, who insisted on clinging to the forward rail, yelling, "YEAH! Bring it on, Lake!

  Rick Riordan

  Lakes, Yelling, Yeah

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• I'll wager I would have screwed things up regardless. But. . .can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, screaming, 'Your cats! Give us all your gods-damned cats!

  Scott Lynch

  Cat, Hands, Giving

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.1112, Random House

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• Perhaps, the answer is that my ravaged mind rails against the idea of God, but something deeper in me calls out as if God might answer. 'There are not foxholes,' I guess, and depression is the deepest and deadliest foxhole I've been in. It may be the 'dark night of the soul' that the mystics talk about but in depression it is not so much that one becomes lost in the dark as one becomes the dark.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Depression, Dark, Night

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• Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail
  Against her beauty? May she mix
  With men and prosper! Who shall fix
  Her pillars? Let her work prevail.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Knowledge, Men, Her Beauty

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.836, Delphi Classics

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• The way innovating companies are designed leaves ambiguities, overlaps, decision conflicts or decision vacuums in some parts of the organisation. People rail at this, curse it-and invent innovative ways to overcome it.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Business, People, Decision

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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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• 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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