Train Quotes - Page 19

• I don't care about Christmas, we are going to train on Christmas Day.

  Harry Redknapp

  Christmas, Care, I Don't Care

  "United restore Premier League lead". www.cnn.com. December 21, 2003.

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• And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months.

  Brandon Routh

  Couple, Australia, Effort

  "Brandon Routh for 'Superman Returns'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. June 16, 2006.

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• Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming.

  Corrine Brown

  People, Waiting, Needs

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• I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train.

  Walt Disney

  Looks, World, Want

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• The passenger train is like the male teat - neither useful nor ornamental.

  James J. Hill

  Males, Passengers

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• The public be damned! (on whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains Aug 1918

  William Henry Vanderbilt

  Luxury, Should

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• You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.

  Ian Dunbar

  Dog, Giving, Training

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• The moment an athlete doesn't train, things start to get a bit rusty.

  Gareth Gates

  Athlete, Moments, Bits

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• I only train, I don't know what a break is.

  Chris Weidman

  Mma, Break, Knows

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• On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.

  William Wordsworth

  Sadness, Men, Solitude

  1814 'The Excursion', preface, l.1-5.

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• You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train.

  Philip Larkin

  Looks, Headings

  Philip Larkin (2012). “Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica”, Faber & Faber

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• Just as the child must trust his mother, the white belt must believe in the good will of his instructor. There will be a time for questioning, but for now he must focus and train.

  Saulo Ribeiro

  Mother, Children, Believe

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• Education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard, but by choice, on the lines of force that attract their world. What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

  Henry Adams

  Education, Choices, Mind

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 21 (1907)

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• And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and the darkness, Musing upon the night's calm majesty; Wrapt up in quietness, with shade and silence, My soul more closely worshippeth Thy presence; With an internal day I feel enlighten'd, And hear a voice, which biddeth me to hope.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Lonely, Stars, Sleep

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies”, p.18

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• If you want to talk about EDM, let’s talk about Detroit underground music, Chicago house and let’s talk about all the things that got us to this place. We all get on the train of dance music. We need to all respectfully look through the carriages that have come before us and realize how we got here.

  Goldie

  Edm, House, Chicago

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• The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place in parenting, as anyone who has tried to potty-train a recalcitrant toddler with sticker rewards knows.

  Emily Oster

  Powerful, Ideas, Incentives

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• The amount of force and violence necessary to board the train, for example was no less and no more than the amoount of politeness and consideration necessary to ensure that the cramped journey was as pleasant as possible afterwards. What is necessary? That was the unspoken but implied, and unavoidable question everywhere in India.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Journey, Violence, India

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• Any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Art, War, Mean

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• We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.

  Shepard Smith

  America, Want, Moments

  "Shepard Smith Uncensored:'We Are America, We Do Not F**king Torture!'" by Nico Pitney, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2009.

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• Swimming is my passion and something that I love. Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me. I go out there and train as hard as anybody else. I have the same dreams, the same goals. It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.

  Natalie du Toit

  Dream, Passion, Swimming

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• Many people have traveled all their lives and yet do not know how to behave themselves when on the road... Ladies and gentlemen should guard against traveling by rail while in a beastly state of intoxication... the morning is a good time to find out how many people have succeeded in getting on the passenger train, who ought to be in the stock car.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Travel, Morning, People

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• I can just put my head down and train hard.

  Katie Hoff

  Train Hard, Down And, I Can

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• Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late--and the real test of our humanness is whether, in light of that knowledge, we are ever able to recover. When we again find our way despite the inability to manufacture a deeper meaning in our suffering, that I think is when God smiles upon us, proud of the strength of his creation.

  Neil Abramson

  Real, Grief, Thinking

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• The dogs absolutely do bark and play with each other, even though [Marino] says she trains them not to be noisy. But they're animals; that's what they do.

  Bill Vaughan

  Dog, Animal, Play

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• New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.

  Bill Geist

  New York, Reading, Cities

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