Traffic Quotes - Page 12

• The haters can't see me, the money's in the way like traffic.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Hate, Way, I Hate You

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• In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion, even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

  Eric Hoffer

  Loyalty, Ignorance, Men

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic's terrible.

  Jeffery Taylor

  Inspirational, Life, Motivation

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• A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were pushing one's own child out into the traffic.

  Quentin Bell

  Children, Book, Writing

  Quentin Bell (1990). “Virginia Woolf: a biography”, Vintage

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• Never traffic in unpracticed truth.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Epic

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• The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.

  John Steinbeck

  Love, Sky, House

  "Travels With Charley: In Search of America". Book by John Steinbeck, Part 2, 1962.

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• I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Fifth Avenue, Walks, Cab

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• I'm not a preacher and I'm not a pastor. But I really feel my career was leading me to make this. The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just directing traffic. I hope the film has the power to evangelize.

  Mel Gibson

  Careers, Ghost, Film

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• If you’ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come from all over the world to f*** up this city’s traffic.

  John Oliver

  New York, Cities, Events

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• I always get scared of traffic cops when I'm driving, like I freak out even when I'm not doing anything wrong. I still think they're going to pull me over and arrest me.

  Leelee Sobieski

  Thinking, Freak, Driving

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

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• The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Art, Differences, Perception

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• If Broadway was a river running from the top of Manhattan down to the Battery, undulating with traffic and commerce and lights, then the east-west streets were eddies where, leaf-like, one could turn slow circles from the beginning to the ever shall be, world without end.

  Amor Towles

  Running, Light, Circles

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.84, Penguin

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• On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths - half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.

  Bill Moyers

  Lying, Home, Weather

  "Now" on PBS with David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org. December 17, 2004.

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• Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible.

  Eli Attie

  Grief, Ideas, Noses

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• Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them on occasion, as of a traffic whose returns are uncertain, and in which 'tis usual to be cheated.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Men, Names

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• In L.A., I don't really want to go out because traffic sucks so bad. I'm sorry, I'm not going to spend five hours a day in my car, so you have to choose where you live very carefully.

  Holly Madison

  Sorry, Car, Where You Live

  "Holly Madison talks family, career and casting decisions as she ends ‘Peepshow’ run". Interview with John Katsilometes, lasvegassun.com. October 23, 2012.

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• We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a big city when there is a cessation of traffic noise - just an instant when there is only the sound of footsteps which serves to emphasize a sudden peace. During those seconds it is possible to notice the sunlight, to notice our fellow humans, to take breath.

  Dorothy Day

  Cities, Silence, Sound

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• I believe that box lacrosse gives young people many more opportunities to excel in our game. If I had my choice, I would have every player under the age of twelve play box lacrosse exclusively or at least a majority of the time. The number of touches of the ball and the ability to develop better stick skills in a game of box lacrosse, far surpasses what happens to young people on a 110 x 60 yard field. Learning how to pass and catch in traffic, understanding how to shoot, and developing a sense of physicality are all positive traits developed by the box game.

  Bill Tierney

  Believe, Opportunity, Player

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• The line of traffic advancing towards the rising sun looked like a procession of the returning dead. Every one of them, solitaries in clean shirts, smoking, checking mirrors to see if their reflections were still there, wore dark glasses.

  Iain Sinclair

  Dark, Reflection, Glasses

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• I have written to Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, asking him to consider 'staggered office timings' for government offices, which will help in decongesting road traffic during peak hours.

  Veerappa Moily

  Government, Office, Asking

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• A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth
  her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Heart, Ambition, Adventure

  Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author”, p.246

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• Most people traffic in abstractions and generalizations because they are grossly incompetent at culturing their intuition or powers of evidency, refining it to grasp the Thisness (Haecceitas) of what is before them. Thinking is like a Stradivarius that has more potential variations in how it is played than any human can finitely perform or capture.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Thinking, People

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• I read with keen interest the words of a bumper sticker readily visible on the highly polished chrome bumper of a car which was weaving in and out of the traffic stream. The words were these: "Honk if you love Jesus." No one honked. Perhaps each was disturbed by the thoughtless and rude actions of the offending driver. Then, again, would honking be an appropriate manner in which to show one's love for the Son of God, the Savior of the world, the Redeemer of all mankind? Such was not the pattern provided by Jesus of Nazareth.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Son, Offending

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• If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.

  Fred Kent

  Cities, People, Car

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• Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience more people, stop more traffic, cause more accidents, entail more expense, and commit and cause I don't remember the other hundred misdemeanors.

  Will Rogers

  People, Nuisance, Causes

  Will Rogers (1974). “The Illiterate Digest”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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