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  • Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia. -- Dionysius Lardner
  • Rail as they will about 'discrimination,' women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism. -- Pat Buchanan
  • You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure. -- Margaret Thatcher
  • Rail travel for me is the most relaxing, most scenic way to see the country. -- John Paul DeJoria
  • Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman. -- Will Rogers
  • Rail is such an undignified way to travel. All that rapid racing about. Floating has so much more gravitas. -- Gail Carriger
  • Rail longer than train cars ; and the hope than our reasons. (Rail plus long que les wagons ; - Et l'espoir que nos raisons.) -- Charles de Leusse
  • In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me. -- William Congreve
  • Catering on planes, like on British Rail, is a standing joke, but I don't really have a problem with it. I don't quite know what people expect. -- Phil Collins
  • So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about an Elephant Not one of them has seen! -- John Godfrey Saxe
  • The vast majority of the people employed by Wall Street are the secretary who goes in to work on the Long Island Rail Road, who makes fifty, sixty, seventy thousand dollars a year. -- Chuck Schumer
  • We're building the infrastructure we need, whether it be the Melbourne Rail Link, the airport rail link which Melburnians have so wanted for over 40 years, upgrading the Pakenham-Cranbourne railway line, or building the East-West Link. -- Denis Napthine
  • When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played. -- Lou Reed
  • It's a matter of invitations versus context. Twitter is really good at providing context, like, I''m having coffee at Third Rail Coffee.' Foursquare is about invitations to places. In this respect Foursquare has started to replace Yelp for me. -- Jack Dorsey
  • It's a matter of invitations versus context. Twitter is really good at providing context, like, I'm having coffee at Third Rail Coffee.' Foursquare is about invitations to places. In this respect Foursquare has started to replace Yelp for me. -- Jack Dorsey
  • All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf. -- Helen Thomas
  • Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. -- Henry Fielding
  • The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run -- Herman Melville
  • A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail. -- Marilyn vos Savant
  • Pipelines are by far the safest way to transport petroleum. They are safer than tankers, safer than trucks, safer than rail. -- John Hoeven
  • Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails. -- Watchman Nee
  • Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • 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
  • Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known. -- A. A. Milne
  • Remember that, in the end, the customer doesn't know, or care, if you are small or large as an organization - she or he only focuses on the garment hanging on the rail in the store. -- Giorgio Armani
  • Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
  • men will have to resign themselves to the fact that the old-time saloon, for men only, will never again exist. Once a woman has felt a brass rail under her instep, there can be no more needlepoint footstools for her. -- Alice-Leone Moats
  • The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny. -- Michael Parenti
  • Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school, TV, and loading the dishwasher after dinner. -- Joe Hill
  • 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
  • I'm just following the Irish tradition of songwriting, the Irish way of life, the human way of life. Cram as much pleasure into life, and rail against the pain you have to suffer as a result. Or scream and rant with the pain, and wait for it to be taken away with beautiful pleasure . . . -- Shane MacGowan
  • I've never fancied that footballer lifestyle. I suppose I could live that kind of flash life. People stereotype child actors and kind of expect you to go off the rails a bit, be a bit crazy, but that's not really happened yet. I've got a big family so that helps, and they live really close to the studios so it's just so much easier. -- Rupert Grint
  • Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics. -- John Shelton Reed
  • I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals. -- Gerrit Smith
  • It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure. -- Eric Topol
  • America is ready for livable communities. America is ready for high-speed rail. -- Greg Abbott
  • As I get older I tend to rail against the world more and more. -- John Connolly
  • For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune. -- Aeschylus
  • Australia has an economic interest in ensuring our cities have 21st century urban rail transport to reduce traffic congestion. -- Anthony Albanese
  • I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face - or so I was told. -- Grace Jones
  • 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
  • In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car. -- John Moody
  • Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern. -- Edward Moore
  • 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
  • This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact. -- Joe Biden
  • Most people would rather sit on a plane for two hours than spend two days on a train, but there's nothing comparable to taking a relaxing rail journey with your family or good friends. -- John Paul DeJoria
  • You come to Washington, there's a rail bill, there's a highway bill, there's a aviation bill. But when you go home, there's an airport, there's a highway, there's a rail, there's transit. It all has to work together. -- Anthony Foxx
  • It's funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they're always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay either in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl. -- Al Michaels
  • By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians. -- Kevin Rudd
  • If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress. -- Elon Musk
  • They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it. -- Chris Christie
  • We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breakup, an insidious culture of violence that cheapens human life, skyrocketing prisoner recidivism rates that rob our communities of husbands and fathers - and recognize that there is a societal role in rehabilitation and restoration. -- Frank Wolf
  • When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it's not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants. -- Tom Hanks
  • The irony of environmental opposition to the Keystone XL project is that stopping the pipeline to the U.S. will not stop production in the oil sands of Canada. Instead of coming to the United States, the oil will still be produced and shipped by rail or a pipeline similar to the Keystone XL to Canada's Pacific Coast. -- John Hoeven
  • Mediocrity is a hand-rail. -- Baron de Montesquieu
  • I was never a rail-thin person. -- Jessica Capshaw
  • In my heart, I'm always in my rail-hosen. -- Alex Ebert
  • I'll rail against what I think is wrong. -- Neil Cavuto
  • Normal is a bitter pill that we rail against. -- Caitlín R. Kiernan
  • The main problem with rail is flexibility and affordability. -- Mark Noble
  • Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours. -- Brendan Fraser
  • Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth. -- Susanna Centlivre
  • Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only. -- Remy de Gourmont
  • Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail. -- Katy Butler
  • I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive. -- Helen Thomas
  • Passengers want options, and when they have options, like passenger rail, they choose them. -- Anthony Foxx
  • Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of -- Henry Fielding
  • If you hear a man rail at the Bible, you can usually conclude that he never reads it. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • Passenger rail development takes time, but good things come to those who are patient and stay the course. -- Thelma Drake
  • Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper. -- Arthur M. Wellington
  • Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • That, let us rail at women, scorn and flout 'em, We may live with, but cannot live without 'em. -- Frederic Reynolds
  • What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car! -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness. -- Mike Rutherford
  • High-speed rail would revolutionise interstate travel and would also be an economic game-changer for dozens of regional communities along its path. -- Anthony Albanese
  • When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result. -- Shane MacGowan
  • What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track. -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • 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
  • Life is like an old-time rail journey--delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. -- Jenkin Lloyd Jones
  • The others strapped themselves below - except for Coach Hedge, who insisted on clinging to the forward rail, yelling, "YEAH! Bring it on, Lake! -- Rick Riordan
  • The passage of time is likely to make high-speed rail more and more desirable, making it critical that politicians of today think ahead to tomorrow. -- Anthony Albanese
  • We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways. -- Corrine Brown
  • I fear that Donald Trump will continue to be followed around by the media in its totality as he continues to rail against Hillary Clinton. -- Ani DiFranco
  • To pretend I was sliding down the stair rail." He laughed again. " You should have done it. I would have caught you at the bottom. -- Gail Carson Levine
  • Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in. -- Edward Abbey
  • Excuse me for a moment, will ye. I think I have to talk to the river,' he said unsteadily and flopped over the side-rail. -- Ian Livingstone
  • Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail Against her beauty? May she mix With men and prosper! Who shall fix Her pillars? Let her work prevail. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear; With God and Fate to rail at, suffering easily. -- Matthew Arnold
  • In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car -- John Moody
  • 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
  • Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern. -- Edward Moore
  • He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail against for a lifetime. -- Kelly Corrigan
  • Reproach is infinite, and knows no endSo voluble a weapon is the tongue;Wounded, we wound; and neither side can failFor every man has equal strength to rail. -- Homer
  • What is the popular image of rock star? A rail-thin, overly-paid, narcissistic, average-talented individual who self-implodes in front of everybody, eternally having a party and who looks eternally youthful? -- Ian Astbury
  • Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled by smoke-belching steam locomotives. -- Alan Huffman
  • Montgomery's unique role in the domestic slave trade was that it was the first community that had a rail line that connected the Deep South to the mid-Atlantic region. -- Bryan Stevenson
  • 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
  • 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
  • There was an Old Man with an owl, Who continued to bother and howl; He sate on a rail, and imbibed bitter ale, Which refreshed that Old Man and his owl. -- Edward Lear
  • It feels good to rail against what is wrong in the world, to fight the good fight, to beat the drum of making a difference. I am right there with you. -- Brenda Strong
  • It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred. -- Moliere
  • 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
  • The way innovating companies are designed leaves ambiguities, overlaps, decision conflicts or decision vacuums in some parts of the organisation. People rail at this, curse it-and invent innovative ways to overcome it. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable. -- Jasper Fforde
  • 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
  • Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success in said market of some product of which they disapprove. -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary -- William Shakespeare
  • The slow pace of trains in the U.S. can be maddening, particularly during delays on rail sidings for an hour or more to enable freight trains - which have the right-of-way - to pass. -- Alan Huffman
  • 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
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