Quotes with train

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  • A. Alvarez No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
    A. Alvarez
    English poet, novelist, essayist and critic (1929 - 2019)
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  • Ralph Nader Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.
    Ralph Nader
    American political activist, author and attorney (1934 - )
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  • Abraham Pais Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Richard Deupree Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently
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  • Cat Stevens Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Eugene Wigner Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve
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  • Carl Honore Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull,
    And cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my skull.
    At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
    and a freight train running through the middle of my head.
    Only you can cool my desire.
    Oh, I'm on fire.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Im On Fire
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Brock Lesnar Stay open-minded; stay focused. Train hard and train smart. For me, the older I get, the smarter I have to train also, because the recovery time is longer. Work on everything: become a well-rounded fighter - don't just be good at one thing; be good at everything.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Robert J. Mckain Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write down critical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts are untrue and practice talking and writing back to them.
    Robert J. Mckain
    American author of self-help books
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  • Aristotle The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Adolph P. Gouthey The best training any parent can give a child is to train the child to train himself.
    Adolph P. Gouthey
    American writer
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  • William Adams Brown The church exists to train its member through the practice of the presence of God to be servants of others, to the end that Christlikeness may become common property.
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  • Bee Wilson The danger of growing up surrounded by endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Billy Campbell The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Marcel Proust The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Albert Camus The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Caitlin Fitzgerald The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.
    Caitlin Fitzgerald
    American actress and filmmaker
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