Rail Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry,-determine to make a day of it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Children, Fall

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.153

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• It's funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they're always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay either in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl.

  Al Michaels

  Team, Cowboy, San Francisco

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• The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if the problem is one thing and the solution something else. The problem, properly understood = the solution. Instead of trying to hide or efface what limits the story, capitalize on that very limitation. State it, rail against it.

  Susan Sontag

  Writing, Trying, Stories

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.409, Macmillan

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• The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding at him, hell for leather, and the machinist sees three idiots sitting on the rail track. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true."

  James Branch Cabell

  Tunnels, Light, Track

  The Silver Stallion bk. 4, ch. 26 (1926) See Leibniz 3; Voltaire 7; Voltaire 8

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• I'm just following the Irish tradition of songwriting, the Irish way of life, the human way of life. Cram as much pleasure into life, and rail against the pain you have to suffer as a result. Or scream and rant with the pain, and wait for it to be taken away with beautiful pleasure . . .

  Shane MacGowan

  Beautiful, Pain, Taken

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• Rail as they will about 'discrimination,' women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism.

  Pat Buchanan

  Stupid, Ambition, Scary

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• There are lots of different interpretations of the word 'prodigy.' My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children. So in that respect I could be called one, although I don't think I'll go off the rails.

  Adora Svitak

  Children, Helping Others, Thinking

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• As a Fundamentalist I had discovered while I was in college that it is possible to dismiss the entire Church as having gone off the rails by about AD 95. That is, we, with our open Bibles, knew better than did old Ignatius or Clement, who had been taught by the very apostles themselves, just what the Church is and what it should look like.

  Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk

  Bible, College, Church

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• I wish I was a guy who could have pancakes and bacon and cheesy eggs, but I'd curl up and pass out. I gotta start healthy or I'll be off the rails all day.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Eggs, Guy, Cheesy

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• men will have to resign themselves to the fact that the old-time saloon, for men only, will never again exist. Once a woman has felt a brass rail under her instep, there can be no more needlepoint footstools for her.

  Alice-Leone Moats

  Drinking, Men, Facts

  Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf

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• The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other drivers who understand that living in a society means behaving in a commonly beneficial way.

  Steven Weber

  Mean, Saving, May

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Devil

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• The passage of time is likely to make high-speed rail more and more desirable, making it critical that politicians of today think ahead to tomorrow.

  Anthony Albanese

  Thinking, Today, Tomorrow

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Occasionally, I go off the rails. I once nearly killed somebody once - it wasn't funny. I am a lunatic. The pressure of work, the pressure - everyone has a stop valve, and I don't have one.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Pressure, Valve, Lunatic

  Source: www.levity.com

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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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