Passengers Quotes - Page 2

• Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and snort their way through the countryside, setting fire to the crops, scaring the livestock, and frightening women and children. The Almighty certainly never intended that people should travel at such break-neck speed.

  Martin Van Buren

  Children, Fire, People

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• Passenger rail development takes time, but good things come to those who are patient and stay the course.

  Thelma Drake

  Development, Patient, Good Things

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• We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah's Ark.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Ships, Ark, Earth

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1990). “A Road to the Future: Address by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ... at the Plenary Meeting of the Forty-third Session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, Wednesday, December 7, 1988”

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• The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships. . . it seems safe to say that such ideas are wholly visionary and even if the machine could get across with one or two passengers the expense would be prohibitive to any but the capitalist who could use his own yacht.

  William Henry Pickering

  Ideas, Two, Flying

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• The aeroplane should open a fruitful occupation for women. I see no reason they cannot realize handsome incomes by carrying passengers between adjacent towns, from parcel delivery, taking photographs or conducting schools of flying.

  Harriet Quimby

  Women, School, Flying

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• As the bus slowed down at the crowded bus stop, the Pakistani bus conductor leaned from the platform and called out, "Six only!" The bus stopped. He counted on six passengers, rang the bell, and then, as the bus moved off, called to those left behind: "So sorry, plenty of room in my heart - but the bus is full." He left behind a row of smiling faces. It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it.

  Edwin Francis Gay

  Sorry, Kindness, Heart

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• We recognised that just putting more flights and more passengers into the skies over southeast England wasn't worth the environmental costs we-re paying.

  Theresa Villiers

  Airports, Sky, Environmental

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• Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry - and found them both equally misleading. Perhaps it will now try the third, the road of scientific truth, the only road on which the passenger is not deceived. Science does not, ostrich-like, bury its head amidst perils and difficulties. It tries to see everything exactly as everything is.

  Garrett P. Serviss

  Religious, Two, Ostriches

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• I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.

  Jules Verne

  Captains, Nemo, Companion

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.44, Jules Verne

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• I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.

  Michael Gambon

  Play, I Can

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

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• Highly complementary airline alliances and mergers can bring important benefits to passengers by connecting networks, offering new services and generating efficiencies across the aviation value chain. However, this has to take place within a competitive environment. It is vital that the economic benefits of an airline alliance or merger are passed on to passengers.

  Neelie Kroes

  Offering, Important, Alliances

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• In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human values do not necessarily vanish, and we must make the most of them. We shall go down, but let it be in a manner to which we may look forward as worthy of our dignity.

  Norbert Wiener

  Real, Looks, May

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.40, Da Capo Press

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• I am not a passenger in anything I do. I am and always will be a leader.

  Derek Fisher

  "Derek Fisher, Champion Point Guard and Face of the Players Union" by Richard Sandomir, www.nytimes.com. October 17, 2011.

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• We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Hero, Burning, Remember

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• It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers.

  C. R. Smith

  Airplane, Firsts, Aviation

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• The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We sweat in the cockpit, though much of the time we fly with the side windows open. The airplanes smell of hot oil and simmering aluminum, disinfectant, feces, leather, and puke ... the stewardesses, short-tempered and reeking of vomit, come forward as often as they can for what is a breath of comparatively fresh air.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Airplane, Sweat, Oil

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• Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are about to fail.

  James Lovelock

  Fall, Knowing, Sailing

  "The Revenge of Gaia". Interview with James Lovelock, www.theguardian.com. 2006.

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• Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy.

  Edward Abbey

  Night, Rivers, Space

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• The police force were outstanding in their field. But all they did was stand in their field. They kept passengers on board while they played with a suspect package for two and three quarter hours. Extraordinary.

  Michael O'Leary

  Two, Police, Boards

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• I want to bring passengers on my airplanes to present to them my product.

  Niki Lauda

  Airplane, Want, Products

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

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• It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft.

  Dave Reichert

  Taken, Airplane, Overcoming

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• The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.

  John S. Pistole

  Hurt, Technology, Air

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• We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive.

  Corrine Brown

  Needs, Amtrak, Aviation

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• We put people of concern on the watch list or the no-fly list, so we have a number of layers of security beyond the airport checkpoint. We gather as much information about a passenger as the law allows without profiling.

  John S. Pistole

  Numbers, Airports, Law

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• They say that most airline seats on planes today are meant for 170-pound passengers. The last time the average American weighed 170 pounds, the Wright Brothers were flying the plane.

  Jay Leno

  Brother, Average, Flying

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