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There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. -- Marshall McLuhan
I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers. -- David Cameron
United Airlines: Passengers are our worst enemy. We're not too fond of luggage either. -- David Letterman
Passengers want options, and when they have options, like passenger rail, they choose them. -- Anthony Foxx
There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record. -- Larry Mullen, Jr.
We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life. -- Ella Maillart
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom. -- Clarence Darrow
Passengers don't like changing planes. That means waiting time, stress, running around. There's a joke that the hub principle is supposed to have been invented by cargo firms. The baggage doesn't care where and how it's pushed around. -- Stelios Haji-Ioannou
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
A reasonable being might think that he and I could find some common ground; have a cup of coffee and compare our Passengers, exchange trade talk and chitchat about dismemberment techniques. But no: Doakes wanted me dead. And I found it difficult to share his point of view. -- Jeff Lindsay
There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens. -- Leon Trotsky
Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves. -- Jane Smiley
I don't want to be a passenger in my own life. -- Diane Ackerman
The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind. -- Marilyn Ferguson
The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers! -- Bill Shankly
Whimsy doesn't care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way. -- Bob Goff
When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car. -- Will Rogers
Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home. -- Carl Sagan
A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery. -- Ray Bradbury
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 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
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
The streets of a modern city are depressing. They are so aimless and so weak in their lines and their masses, that the mind and senses jog on their way like passengers in a train with blinds down in an overcrowded carriage. -- Wyndham Lewis
Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles. . . . It won't be too long before bright young men and women set their eyes on careers in Earth orbit and say: "I want to work 200 kilometers from home-straight up!" -- Arthur C. Clarke
And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea. -- Voltaire
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
What to do, when a ship carrying a hundred passengers suddenly capsizes and there is only one lifeboat? When the lifeboat is full, those who hate life will try to load it with more people and sink the lot. Those who love and respect life will take the ship's axe and sever the extra hands that cling to the sides. -- Pentti Linkola
This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers. -- James Howell
Scissors, screwdrivers and the like pose an unacceptable risk to flight crews as well passengers. -- Dave Reichert
With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights. -- Richard Branson
I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers. -- David Neeleman
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there. -- Paul Getty
With 'Titanic,' you have all the first-class passengers interwoven with wonderful stories about the maids and the engineers, the people downstairs in the galleys. -- Sophie Winkleman
We will never forget the passengers of Flight 93, who courageously confronted the terrorists, defeating another planned attack on America. They are the heroes for our times. -- Bob Taft
People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.' -- Daisaku Ikeda
The passengers in our microbiome contain at least four million genes, and they work constantly on our behalf: they manufacture vitamins and patrol our guts to prevent infections; they help to form and bolster our immune systems, and digest food. -- Michael Specter
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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
My message going forward is that I want to remind everyone in the aviation industry - especially those who manage aviation companies and those who regulate aviation - that we owe it to our passengers to keep learning how to do it better. -- Chesley Sullenberger
We have so much pride in welcoming these passengers onto the plane, and they have so much pride in travel. It's something that I definitely always remember, when I'm playing a scene on the plane, just to imbue everything with that sense of excitement. -- Christina Ricci
To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. -- Lee De Forest
When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an amazing process of innovation, where we now have planes that carry 500 passengers. Along the way there were some silly looking vehicles that crashed early on. -- Sheldon Whitehouse
With respect to sticking accelerator pedals, we failed to connect the dots between problems in Europe and problems in the United States because the European situation related primarily to right-hand-drive vehicles. Toyota will increase its outreach to government agencies charged with protecting the safety of motorists and passengers. -- Akio Toyoda
In the late 1960s, Ontario Airport was a throwback to a bygone era. Located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the airport served only two carriers, Western and Bonanza. Passengers could catch regional flights to San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and that was about it. -- Annie Jacobsen
This was 1978, when flying was still an occasion, a special grand event that took planning and care. I worked as a TWA flight attendant then. I stood in my Ralph Lauren uniform at the boarding door and smiled at the passengers through lips coated with lipstick that perfectly matched the stripe on my jacket. Mostly, the passengers smiled back. -- Ann Hood
When I travel overseas on many occasions, I get pulled out because I may be buying a one-way ticket, I may be traveling with my sister and we have different last names. That's smart profiling. Just pulling people out one at a time when we have millions of passengers in random screenings I'm not sure is the best way to do it. -- Aaron Schock
I sought trains; I found passengers. -- Paul Theroux
Only fools and passengers drink at sea. -- Alan Villiers
We're not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We're the crew. -- Rusty Schweickart
Enthusiasm attracts more passengers and energizes them during the ride. -- Jon Gordon
Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nobody ever thought about having to protect the passengers from the pilots. -- David Neeleman
Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore. -- Steve Martin
It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers. -- C. R. Smith
The vices come as passengers, visit us as guest and stay as masters. -- Confucius
The passengers were on my aircraft, and I have to take responsibility for that. -- Tony Fernandes
Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I want to bring passengers on my airplanes to present to them my product. -- Niki Lauda
We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers. -- Gordon Bethune
As the plane lands in Glasgow airport, passengers are reminded to set their watch back, 25 years. -- Frankie Boyle
It is unacceptable for passengers to be stranded in planes on the tarmac for hours on end. -- Anthony Foxx
I'd like to die like my old dad, peacefully in his sleep, not screaming like his passengers. -- Bob Monkhouse
The problem is, we have yet to convince the Taliban they are fellow passengers on spaceship Earth. -- Will Durst
At the departure gate, a drunken airport security woman was handing out box cutters to the passengers. -- Warren Ellis
Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia. -- Dionysius Lardner
The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family. -- Blaise Pascal
[Love] has as few problems as a motocar. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road. -- Franz Kafka
One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down. -- Peter Ustinov
I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it. -- Tom Stoppard
In Europe, they travel a lot lighter. I always joke that my Indonesian passengers bring their house and their neighbors house. -- Tony Fernandes
In Europe, they travel a lot lighter. I always joke that my Indonesian passengers bring their house and their neighbor's house. -- Tony Fernandes
Elizabeth Taylor was so fat that whenever she went to London in a red dress, 30 passengers would try to board her. -- Joan Rivers
I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction? -- David Byrne
...(that) any general system of conveying passengers would ... go at a velocity exceeding ten miles an hour, or thereabouts, is extremely improbable. -- Thomas Tredgold
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
Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death. -- Diogenes Laertius
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
We're going to see passengers in space stations in 15 years, who will be able to buy a ticket and spend a weekend in space. -- Alan Shepard
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there. -- Paul Getty
There were precisely two groups of people who desperately wanted airport security to be browbeaten into giving suspicious passengers a pass: terrorists and Democrats. -- Ann Coulter
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
I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic. -- Miranda July
I was a horrible limo driver: I ran out of gas with passengers in the back and I used to get lost on a regular basis. -- John Slattery
The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle. -- Christa McAuliffe
The road comes to an end just when it ought to be getting somewhere. The passengers alight, shaken and weary, to begin, all over again, something else. -- Stephen Leacock
On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the crew. We have moved into an age in which everybody's activities affect everybody else. -- Marshall McLuhan
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
We focused on getting popchips into the hands of tastemakers and influencers wherever they were, from the fashionistas at Mercedes Benz fashion week to the passengers on Virgin Airlines. -- Keith Belling
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
Only on the third class tourist class passengers' deck was it a sultry overcast morning, but then if you do things on the cheap you must expect these things. -- Spike Milligan
So exquisitely perfect was the darkness of the heavens above that one would have difficulty believing it was a prison to the passengers and crew of The Black Witch. -- Micheal Rivers
Humans have a proven track record in taking over planes by the use of threats, which work because the legitimate pilots value their own lives and those of their passengers. -- Richard Dawkins
This year, U.S. airlineswill carry a record 143 million passengers, who will be in the air for 382 million hours, during which they will be fed an estimated total of four peanuts. -- Dave Barry
As the head of security for an airline, I can't ask my passengers to risk their lives and jump on a terrorist. This is why we need air marshals on every flight. -- Isaac Yeffet
Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where we now measure it in the 'per billions' of passengers. -- Thomas P.M. Barnett
The guest gets at least as much service with us as with some established airline, if not even more. And at by far a favourable price. Thus the passengers remain gladly with us. -- Niki Lauda
Do people who wave at trains Wave at the driver, or at the train itself? Or, do people who wave at trains Wave at the passengers? Those hurtling strangers, The unidentifiable flying faces? -- Roger McGough
Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
The first real air-liner, carrying some five or six hundred passengers, will probably appear after or towards the end of the battle between fixed and moving-wing machines. And it will be a flying boat. -- Oliver Stewart
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

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