Stations Quotes - Page 7

• The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.

  Edward Gibbon

  Nice, Character, Differences

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.195, e-artnow

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• Restrooms at gas stations were an unpleasant and shocking surprise; I had never considered the serious drawbacks of such lazily-cleaned rooms. I was completely unable to ignore the filth, and wasted a burst of power to turn the sink, floors and porcelain toilet into sparkling, clean examples of their kind before using the facility. I felt that was a much less judgmental response than simply blowing the place off the face of the Earth, which was also a distinct temptation, especially when the storekeeper overcharged me for a bottle of cold water.

  Rachel Caine

  Water, Temptation, Example

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• Shirley's gonna be pissed," Gazarra said. "She hates when I get shot." To my recollection, the only other time Gazarra was shot was when he was playing quick draw in the police station elevator and his gun accidentally discharged. The bullet ricocheted off the elevator wall and lodged in Gazarra's right buttock.

  Janet Evanovich

  Wall, Hate, Gun

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Ten Big Ones: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.37, Macmillan

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• Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heart, Insults You, Necks

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.216, Penguin

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• Captain John Sheridan: I wish I had your faith in the universe. I just don't see it. Delenn: Then I will tell you a great secret, Captain. Perhaps the greatest of them all. The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station , and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are starstuff. We are the universe made manifest, trying to figure itself out. And as we have both learned, sometimes the universe requires a change of perspective.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Stars, Perspective, Secret

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• To be a DJ was to be God. To be a DJ at an alternative public radio station ? That was being God with a mission. It was thinking you were the first person to discover The Clash and you had to spread the word.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Thinking, Alternatives, Radio

  Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Kitty and the Midnight Hour”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Vegas, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

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• She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness.

  Milan Kundera

  Sadness, Space, Together

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• I will not close my eyes, neither those in my head nor those in my soul, as the ship carries me away, along with my future, my dreams, and my beliefs. Buru Island is no happy land somewhere; it's but a way station on my journey in life—though to believe even that much will require no small measure of hope.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Dream, Believe, Eye

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1999). “The Mute's Soliloquy: A Memoir”

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• Another train will come. Why rush? Why worry? Why go crazy? Another train will come. And sure enough, another train going my way was pulling into the station. My bad mood evaporated. I entered the car smiling, certain that there would be more missed trains in my life, more closed doors in my face, but there would always be another train rumbling down the tracks in my direction.

  Esmeralda Santiago

  Crazy, Doors, Worry

  Esmeralda Santiago (2009). “The Turkish Lover: A Memoir”, p.77, Da Capo Press

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• I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.

  Charlaine Harris

  Tired, People, Railroads

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.99, Penguin

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• "Penn station", Ali said to the driver, slamming the door. Then she turned back to Hanna. "We ditch the bitches", she said. "And then we take them down".

  Sara Shepard

  Doors, Said, Drivers

  "Wanted". Book by Sara Shepard, June 8, 2010.

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• every seven miles, in America, there is at least one McDonald's. Not a hospital, mind you, or a police station, but a McDonald's, every seven miles. I mean, that's sort of scary, if you think about it.

  Meg Cabot

  Mean, Thinking, Mcdonalds

  Meg Cabot (2011). “Vanished: When Lightning Strikes & Code Name Cassandra”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9.49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum and Jack knew about. Jonah kept it in his sock drawer next to a photograph of Jonah and a girl with sad eyes, taken in one of those railway station photo booths.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Taken, Eye

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• A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents. It cannot be created by having extraordinary advantages. It isn't a gift of birth, wealth, talent or station. It is the result of your own endeavor. It is the reward that comes from living good principles and manifesting a virtuous and honorable life.

  L. Tom Perry

  Good Life, Integrity, Character

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• To me, the best zombie movies aren’t the splatter fests of gore and violence with goofy characters and tongue in cheek antics. Good zombie movies show us how messed up we are, they make us question our station in society… and our society’s station in the world. They show us gore and violence and all that cool stuff too… but there’s always an undercurrent of social commentary and thoughtfulness.

  Robert Kirkman

  Character, Zombie, World

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• Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving. Life is the train, not the station.

  Paulo Coelho

  Moving, Journey, People

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still.

  C. S. Lewis

  Moving, Leaving, Humanity

  1936 The Allegory of Love, ch.1.

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• Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Jumping, Life Is Like, Watches

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• And if you ever need self-validation, Just meet me in the alley by the railway station

  Steven Morrissey

  Self, Validation, Needs

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• It's dark out, Jack, the stations out there don't identify themselves, we're in it raw-blind like burned rats, it's running out all around us, the footprints of the beast, one nobody has any notion of. The white and vacant eyes of something above there, something that doesn't know we exist. I smell heartbreak up there, Jack, a heartbreak at the center of things, and in which we don't figure at all.

  Kenneth Patchen

  Running, Eye, Dark

  Kenneth Patchen (2008). “We Meet”, p.167, New Directions Publishing

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• I Believe she thought I had forgotten my station; and yours, sir.' 'Station! Station!-- your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you, now or hereafter.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Believe, Heart, Insults You

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.216, Penguin

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• The young man knows that he is irretrievably lost. This is no town of cats, he finally realizes. It is the place where he is meant to be lost. It is another world, which has been prepared especially for him. And never again, for all eternity, will the train stop at this station to take him back to the world he came from.

  Haruki Murakami

  Cat, Men, World

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 30, 2015

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• I turned and looked into the gas station, where Wes was now paying, as the man who'd driven us looked on. "That's too bad," I said. "It's okay, though," she assured me. "Someday I'll show you an extraordinary boy, Macy. They do exist. You just have to believe me." "Don't worry," I said. "I do.

  Sarah Dessen

  Believe, Boys, Men

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.131, Penguin

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• Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.

  Norman Maclean

  Idaho, Mountain, World

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.131, University of Chicago Press

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