Train Quotes - Page 32

• What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.

  Louise Bernikow

  People, Boards, Haunting

  Louise Bernikow (1986). “Alone in America: the search for companionship”, Harpercollins

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• I can't actually see myself putting make-up on my face at the age of sixty, but I can see myself going on a camel train to Samarkand.

  Glenda Jackson

  Age, Camels, Faces

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• Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association - in short, by prejudice.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Pride, Train Of Thought, Track

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.338, Broadview Press

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• One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train of thought. They drove me distracted while I was having influenza, gazing at me with large eyes and saying: O Sylvia, you are so ill, you'll soon be dead. And who will feed us then? Feed us now!

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Memories, Cat, Eye

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• The foolish square calves pretend to be frightened of our train. Bluffers! Haven't they seen it every day since they were born? It's just an excuse to shake the joy out of their heels.

  Emily Carr

  Squares, Joy, Excuse

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.122, D & M Publishers

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• if you wish to train yourself for higher executive positions, the first thing for you to decide is what you are training for. Ability to dominate or manipulate others? That ought to be easy enough, since most of the magazines advertise sure ways of developing something they call 'personality.' But I am convinced that the first essential of business success is the capacity for organized thinking.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Business, Thinking, Personality

  Mary Parker Follett (1957). “Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett”

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• to the Indian, politics are what the weather is to an Englishman. Politics are an introduction to a stranger on a train, they are the standard filler for embarrassing silences in conversation, they are the inevitable small talk at any social gathering.

  Santha Rama Rau

  Weather, Silence, India

  Santha Rama Rau (1945). “Home to India”

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• In 1995, when I was backpacking through Europe solo, I would head to the train station, look up at the big board, and decide right there and then where I would go that day.

  Joseph Pisani

  Europe, Boards, Looks

  "Aeschbacher" with Kurt Aeschbacher, SF1 TV channel, April 04, 2008.

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• The abuse of love, like the abuse of health, brings suffering and death in its train.

  Juliette Drouet

  Suffering And Death, Abuse, Suffering

  Juliette Drouet (2015). “Love-Letters to Victor Hugo: Works Of Hugo”, p.185, 谷月社

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• there are camels which have the quality which in humans is called the revolutionary spirit, and the caravan leader fears to keep one of these in his ranks, because its instinct is always toward revolt against authority. One such camel will sometimes break up the discipline of a whole train, for, owing to the mass mentality of the herd, even peaceful beasts are suddenly infected with the spirit of revolt and in a few minutes the whole caravan is in utter disorder.

  Mildred Cable

  Discipline, Leader, Peaceful

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• You're about to be the conductor on the most brilliant, runaway train in showbiz. Good luck you'll love it.

  Dermot O'Leary

  Good Luck, Brilliant, Runaway

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2015

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• With everything you do, in fact, you should train yourself to question your repeated behaviors.

  Dan Ariely

  Facts, Behavior, Should

  Dan Ariely (2013). “The Irrational Bundle”, p.43, HarperCollins UK

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• I've got a lot of examples about moments where I thought something would work on film and it didn't work, but I never came to that decision with the film half shot, where I was stuck on a runaway train and couldn't jump off. On those occasions where I have admitted defeat, that this is not going to work, I haven't embarked on that project and made that movie.

  Steven Spielberg

  Decision, Half, Example

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• Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost. Idleness will be shut out at every avenue, and with her that numerous body of vices that make up her train.

  Thomas Hartwell Horne

  Time, Vices, Employment

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• All of us can improve the quality of our lives if we practice the art of self-care and train our minds to think thoughts that make us feel good.

  Louise Hay

  Art, Thinking, Self

  Louise L. Hay, Cheryl Richardson (2011). “You Can Create an Exceptional Life: Candid Conversations with Louise Hay and Cheryl Richardson”, p.12, Hay House, Inc

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• When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.

  Ben Whishaw

  Actors, Levels, Able

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

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• You often hear this about directors, how its like having the best set of toys. This fabulous train set, the biggest box of toys that a kid could possibly have. The best directors look like a kid having more fun than youre supposed to have.

  William Sadler

  Fun, Kids, Fabulous

  "EXCLUSIVE: William Sadler Talks Roadracers Blu-ray". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 18, 2012.

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• The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.

  Caitlin Fitzgerald

  Hard Work, Years, Dangerous

  Biography/ Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event.

  Matthew Henry

  Dark, Events, May

  Matthew Henry (1839). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839”, p.946

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• The Houthi have local religious grievances, being Shiites in a majority Sunni land. But they are also agents of Shiite Iran, which arms, trains, and advises them. Their slogan - 'God is great. Death to America. Death to Israel' - could have been written in Persian.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Religious, Israel, Iran

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• In that sense, Obama is America's first postmodern president. If his predecessors tended to see the world in terms of good and evil, Obama sees the world in terms of victims and victimizers - with the United States often in the role of victimizer. In that view, long favored by the academic left that shaped a young Barack Obama, American foreign policy is one long train of abuses, marked by casual aggression and eager imperiousness.

  Stephen F. Hayes

  Views, America, Evil

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• Most of the hotel gym's are not adequate. I mean you might be able to train your arms, but you aren't going to be able to train legs, back, or even chest if they don't have dumbbells and benches.

  Warren Cuccurullo

  Mean, Benches, Adequate

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• I had to get up run in the morning for 2 hours, go to the gym and also get good opponents as sparring partners because I'm a big believer in that how you train is how you will fight at least when it came to me that's how it worked.

  Alexis Arguello

  Running, Morning, Fighting

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• The greatest feeling you can get in a gym or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is the pump. Let's say you train your biceps, blood is rushing in to your muscles and that's what we call the pump. Your muscles get a really tight feeling like your skin is going to explode any minute and its really tight and its like someone is blowing air into your muscle and it just blows up and it feels different, it feels fantastic.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Bodybuilding, Blow, Air

  "Pumping Iron". Documentary, Sport, www.imdb.com. 1977.

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• Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep.

  William Ernest Henley

  Stars, Sleep, Night

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley, Sir Graham Balfour (1903). “The amateur emigrant. Across the plains. The silverado squatters”

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