“If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, 'a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on'.” IfsWorldWantWellsSaidLightLyingTruth IsBreathsTrainRoundsBootsPullingFeathersWell SaidOld Proverb Author:Bruce Springsteen
“A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns or expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade gradually from the mind, leaving no enduring impression; but words which flow fresh and warm from a full heart, and which are instinct with the life and breath of human feeling, pass into household memories, and partake of the immortality of the affections from which they spring.” MindFirstsHumansHeartMayFeelingsTurnsMemoriesStyleExpressionSpringFlowSightBreathsTrainInstinctEndureLeavingAffectionWarmBrilliantImpressionImmortalityFadesHouseholdCompositionImageryDazzleGaudyEpithetFull Hearts Book:Essays and Reviews Source: Essays and Reviews
“If you want the truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world it will fly; it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it.” IfsWorldWantLightLyingBreathsTrainRoundsPullingFeathers Author:Charles Spurgeon
“God is greater than anything that man can do or has done. He is not undone by just a train of powder. "Our God is not out of breath because he has blown one tempest and swallowed a Navy: Our God has not burnt out his eyes because he has looked upon a Train of Powder."” MenDoneEyeCan DoGreaterBreathsTrainHis EyesNavyUndoneTempestPowderBurnt Out Author:Errol Morris
“And she [Margaret Thatcher] also had a sort of a way, like a railroad train, of going, taking a breath and starting quite quietly and making a point in a way that you don't really know that this point is going to be made through several examples, and there will be not be a break in the speaking voice at any point.” KnowsWayMadeVoiceBreakExampleBreathsTrainStartingRailroads Author:Meryl Streep
“Just come into stillness. Have your intention be to relax with the breath. That will begin to set in motion a habit that will start to train the mind.” MindHabitBreathsTrainIntentionRelaxStillness Author:Tara Brach
“In a train...smash. In his arm her last...breath.' He had loved her. But he hated himself more. Such suffering, so much pain. And he thought it made him hateful. As if suffering was shameful, disgusting, as if pain were a crime. Who can judge another man's suffering?” IfsMenMadePainLastsSufferingCrimeJudgingArmsBreathsTrainHatedDisgustingAnother ManHatefulShameful Author:Janet Fitch
“And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me: It seemed like I could hear it through the grass, like leaning your ear to a railroad track and feeling the train coming, miles away. As the noise got closer I could hear ragged breaths, and then a voice. It was my mother.” FeelingsRunningMotherVoiceHeardEarsBreathsTrainTrackMilesNoiseGrassFootstepsLawnsRailroadsMiles AwayRaggedRailroad Tracks Book:Dreamland Source: Dreamland
“The train skimmed on softly, slithering, black pennants fluttering, black confetti lost on its own sick-sweet candy wind, down the hill, with the two boys pursuing, the air was so cold they ate ice cream with each breath.” TwoLostBlackBoysAirSweetWindColdSickBreathsTrainIceHillsCreamCandyIce CreamFlutteringConfetti Book:Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel
“You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively. ... You put a piece of paper in the typewriter, or you turn on your computer and bring up the right file. ... You begin rocking, just a little at first, and then like a huge autistic child. ... Then your mental illnesses arrive at the desk like your sickest, most secretive relatives. And they pull up chairs in a semicircle around the computer, and they try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath, leering at you behind your back.” KnowsTryingFirstsChildrenLittlesTurnsBehindsPiecesHugeLike YouQuietPaperComputerBreathsTrainIllnessMental IllnessKicksUnconsciousChairsDesksFilesTurn-onTypewritersAutisticSecretivePull UpsBehind Your BackAutistic Children Author:Anne Lamott