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I was never more alive than when the Dark Passenger was driving. -- Jeff Lindsay
Passengers want options, and when they have options, like passenger rail, they choose them. -- Anthony Foxx
Passenger rail development takes time, but good things come to those who are patient and stay the course. -- Thelma Drake
"¦a cheerful black shadow reared up behind him as he spoke, thundering a happy challenge to my Dark Passenger, which slid forward and bellowed back. -- Jeff Lindsay
I confess I've never felt like a passenger. -- Roger Waters
I am not a passenger in anything I do. -- Derek Fisher
I don't want to be a passenger in my own life. -- Diane Ackerman
I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life. -- Margrethe II of Denmark
I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play. -- Michael Gambon
I don't want to be a passenger sitting on the bench not doing much, even in my older years. -- Frank Lampard
Just because you're upfront with someone doesn't mean you're an honest person; you might just be someone in the passenger seat. -- Brian Celio
An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals. -- Leon Panetta
No aeroplane you've ever gotten into had less than thousands of flights before they took their first passenger. Because vehicles are unsafe at first. -- Chris Hadfield
Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf. -- Jan Schakowsky
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
Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one. -- Niki Lauda
The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious. -- Marilyn vos Savant
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. -- Aldous Huxley
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. -- Samuel Johnson
I love producing shows. And so when you're on a show where other people are making decisions you don't necessarily agree with it, after a while you start to feel like a passenger. -- Simon Cowell
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
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger. -- Harriet Tubman
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 Pistole
I'm somebody who doesn't feel the need to be in the driver's seat all the time. I appreciate the perspective of being in the passenger's seat sometimes, and I feel fortunate for that because I've learned a lot from that perspective. -- M. Ward
They can argue whatever they want. The problem is, when you interview every passenger, during the interviews you are looking for - you profile - you do profiling, to find the suspicious ones and put them out from the rest of the passengers. -- Isaac Yeffet
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 Pistole
All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the public. The officer assisting the passenger never sees the image, and the officer viewing the image never interacts with the passenger. The imaging technology that we use cannot store, export, print or transmit images. -- Janet Napolitano
One of the reasons I wrote 'Airborn' was that I'd fallen in love with the great passenger airships which flew in the '20s and '30s. Their time was short-lived. They were frail, they tended to crash; and they could never be as fast, safe and efficient as the airplanes that replaced them. -- Kenneth Oppel
I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this week did I stumble across the rightful winner: it's the sound of a baggage carousel coming to a grinding halt, having reunited every passenger on your flight with their luggage, except for you. -- Sloane Crosley
In an instant, the law was transformed: from the last passenger on the safe-haven bandwagon to a pioneer into uncharted territory. For the first time in American history, it was not only legal to relinquish a baby; in Nebraska, it was okay to abandon any child of any age for any reason at any time - with the full protection of the law. -- Wil S. Hylton
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
He made a lousy passenger, barking instructions I ignored -- Karen Marie Moning
The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. -- John Howard
I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life. -- Margrethe II of Denmark
It often takes more courage to be a passenger than a driver. -- E. L. Konigsburg
A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life. -- Stephen Richards
The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger. -- John Milton
Why pamper life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat? -- Steven Morrissey
The passenger train is like the male teat - neither useful nor ornamental. -- James J. Hill
While passenger numbers have doubled in the past 20 years, the industry remains scandalously inefficient. -- Simon Calder
Civility is only a passenger - not a driver - on the information superhighway. -- Don Rittner
The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind. -- Marilyn Ferguson
I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. -- Harriet Tubman
[I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. -- Aldous Huxley
Never try to be the passenger of life. Be the driver and enjoy the ride. -- Debasish Mridha
Learn to drive?" "Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger. -- Diana Wynne Jones
I can drive. Let's just say you don't want to be in the passenger seat. -- Nicolas Berggruen
Relationship is only two on board. It has to sink when there is one extra passenger -- Farid F. Ibrahim
Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary. It Mattered. -- Caroline B. Cooney
When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower. -- Martin Amis
There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine. -- Lord Byron
I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise. -- Sam Shepard
Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives. -- George Mikes
Intelligence is the airport; will power is the airplane; man is the passenger and happiness is the destination! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane. -- David Foster Wallace
A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger. -- Samuel R. Delany
Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon. -- Ronald Reagan
I didn't want to be a passenger on someone else's motorcycle.I wanted to be the one riding that motherfucker. -- Lily Brooks-Dalton
...I didn't want to be a passenger on someone else's motorcycle.I wanted to be the one riding that motherfucker. -- Lily Brooks-Dalton
Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life. -- William Wordsworth
Whimsy doesn't care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way. -- Bob Goff
Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results. -- Phil McGraw
Why couldn't she have gotten another Edger or some dimwit from the Broken for a passenger? No, she got Lord Leather Pants here. -- Ilona Andrews
You risked the cub? (Dev) He's not just a cub. (Aimee) You're right. He's the passenger who fell off the short bus. (Dev) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks. -- Sherwood Boehlert
Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger. -- Philip Sidney
I worked in the White House on 9/11, where the vice president was given the authority to, if he deemed necessary, shoot down an American passenger jet. -- Nicolle Wallace
If we were to start today on an organized and well-supported space program I believe a practical passenger rocket can be built and tested within ten years. -- Wernher von Braun
Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps. -- Bill Lipinski
I think we would look at other possibilities that would deliver further passenger capacity, that would deliver further infrastructure to the north of England but would be better value for taxpayers. -- Andrea Leadsom
A Toyota is not a toy. At least not a sex toy. However, my driving is both erratic and erotic. Tickets are ten dollars per passenger. Senior citizen discounts not available. -- Jarod Kintz
Every year, at 8:00 PM on the second Saturday of July, hundreds of people gather along a section of Los Angeles rail track to drop their pants and moon passing passenger trains. -- James Frey
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
Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the highway of life which the unconscious passenger tramples into dust. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
You cannot compare any leaders in America to what Vladimir Putin has done. This is a man and a regime that has taken down a passenger plane in Ukraine, killing hundreds of people. -- Amy Klobuchar
A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together. -- David Reuben
I really love to drive. It's really hard for me to be a passenger, even though I get to look around a little bit more, but I've gotten really good at driving and looking. -- Catherine Opie
When you don't take an aggressive role in shaping your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, you become a helpless passenger floating through the universe like a ghost ship, merely reacting to wherever it takes you. -- Chris Hardwick
I've never learned to drive because I get lots of ideas when I'm a passenger in a car. I love to get in a car with a driver and just think and work things out. -- Damien Hirst

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