Rail Quotes - Page 2

• Justice? Who asks for justice? We make our own justice ... Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.

  Frank Herbert

  Long, Justice, Use

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.421, Penguin

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• Half-Life is the finest implementation of a game on rails anybody has ever done

  Warren Spector

  Games, Done, Half

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• To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.

  George Stephenson

  Pockets, Patents, My Own

  Samuel Smiles, George Stephenson (1857). “The life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer”, p.195

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• Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.

  Shane MacGowan

  Pain, Suffering, Pleasure

  1997 In Loaded, Nov.

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• Let those who think the soul is shallow rail, They must be warned before they dare to leap They'll plunge into the twilight depths where sweep In ceaseless thirst great teeth too swift to fail.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Twilight, Thinking, Soul

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• Some men are searching for the Holy Grail, but there ain't nothing sweeter than riding the rail. Pregnant women and Vietnam vets, beggin on the freeway, bout as hard as it gets.

  Tom Waits

  Men, Holy Grail, Riding

  "Song: 'Cold Water' ('Mule Variations')". 1999.

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• The Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board is established in 1946 in an effort to discover the cause of the brown cloud hanging over the city and decide how to combat and disperse it. In 1949, after intense lobbying from both the automobile and oil industries, and against the recommendations and position of the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board, the public rail system, which at one time was the largest in the world, and still serves a majority of the city's population, is decommissioned and torn out. It is replaced by a small fleet of buses.

  James Frey

  Air, Cities, Pollution Control

  James Frey (2008). “Bright Shiny Morning”, p.292, Hachette UK

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• A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Tasks, Discrimination

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales”, p.250, tredition

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• We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.

  William Hazlitt

  Opportunity, Giving, Faults

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1472, Delphi Classics

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• It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument in its favor? If one would be employed or amused through life, should we not make choice of a passion that will keep one long in play?

  William Shenstone

  Passion, Ambition, Play

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.99

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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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• Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Hate, Men, Vices

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• A song without a hook is like a train without rails. It skitters all over the place, bangs into everything. Boom! Crash! There goes Grand Central Station. Crushed by a train.

  David Lee Roth

  Song, Bangs, Hook

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• I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.

  John Steinbeck

  Travel, People, Maps

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.17, Penguin

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• Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Relationship, Men, One Woman

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• It is only necessary that man should start a fence that Nature should carry it on and complete it. The farmer cannot plow quite up to the rails or wall which he himself has placed, and hence it often becomes a hedgerow and sometimes a coppice.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Men, Hedgerows

  David R. Foster, Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Thoreau's Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape”, p.67, Harvard University Press

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• Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow covers the ground, of the magnolia, and the Florida keys, and their warm sea breezes; of the fence-rail, and the cotton-tree, and the migrations of the rice-bird; of the breaking up of winter in Labrador, and the melting of the snow on the forks of the Missouri; and owe an accession of health to these reminiscences of luxuriant nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Reading, Book

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Civil Disobedience & Other Essays - Premium Collection: 26 Political, Philosophical & Historical Essays: Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, The Landlord, Walking, Sir Walter Raleigh, Paradise (to be) Regained, Herald of Freedom, A Plea for Captain John Brown, The Highland Light, Dark Ages…”, p.79, e-artnow

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• When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails I let it go off the rails.

  Stuart Rose

  Kids, Happy Kid, Let It Go

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• I'll rail against what I think is wrong.

  Neil Cavuto

  Thinking

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• I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.

  Gerrit Smith

  Construction, Canals, New Roads

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• I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America.

  Corrine Brown

  Iraq, America, Important

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• Wish You Were Here So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain. Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? And did they get you to trade Your heros for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange A walk on part in the war For a lead role in a cage? How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.

  Roger Waters

  Running, Pain, War

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• A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Simple, Men

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 6, l. [154]

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• Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems.

  Bill Lipinski

  Sexy, Issues, Important

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• I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it.

  Julie Bowen

  Decades

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