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Book:Leaders' Ladder

Source: Leaders' Ladder

“Zoe returned by rail to Claremont Village. After the train pulled away, she stood alone, beneath a security camera affixed to a lamppost. She looked up, and its lifeless eye looked straight back. In some uncontrollable fancy she turned and curtseyed, imagining someone wonderful on the other side of the lens would be captivated by her new American dress.”

Immigration Rail Dress Captivated Cyber Security Immigrant Benzehabe Unassimilated Amtrak Claremont Western Fashion

Author:Michael Benzehabe

“Mental wounds not healing, who and what's to blame. I'm going off the rails on a crazy train.”

Healing Crazy Blame Train Wounds Insanity Rail

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“We're going off the rails on a crazy train.”

Crazy Train Insanity Rail

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.”

Ifs Young Difficult Challenges Powerful Identity Ethics Staying Commandments Rail Chaste Difficult Challenges Young Life

Book:Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America

Source: Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America

“How is it that one rails against that which is nearly a certainty?”

Certainty Twilight Rail

Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the government's overreach. In reality, the FHA shows how government action during the Great Recession forestalled a much worse economic fate.”

Trying Shows Reality Government Action Economy Fate Economic Example Intervention Fashionable Recessions Rail Government Intervention Great Recession

Author:Mark Zandi

“A song without a hook is like a train without rails. It skitters all over the place, bangs into everything. Boom! Crash! There goes Grand Central Station. Crushed by a train.”

Song Train Stations Crash Hook Bangs Crushed Rail

Author:David Lee Roth

“Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.”

Men Hate Common Effects Vices Greedy Avarice Rail Misers Expect Nothing

Author:Claude Adrien Helvetius

“Many people have traveled all their lives and yet do not know how to behave themselves when on the road... Ladies and gentlemen should guard against traveling by rail while in a beastly state of intoxication... the morning is a good time to find out how many people have succeeded in getting on the passenger train, who ought to be in the stock car.”

People Knows Should States Morning Know How Car Ought Travel Train Behave Gentleman Good Times Traveled Passengers Rail Intoxication Ladies And Gentlemen Beastly

Author:Edgar Wilson Nye

“Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.”

Inspirational Sports President Golf Teenager Immortal Rail Congressman Splitting

Author:Will Rogers

“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.”

God Suffering Fate Air Bears Ought Void Rail

Book:New poems

Source: New poems

“I think the most important thing is to take the long view on things. We live in such a 24/7, Twitter-fed, constant news cycle, and everything's a crisis, everything is terrible, everything is doomsday, everything is - if it doesn't get solved tomorrow, your presidency is going off the rails.”

Ifs Thinking Long Important Views Tomorrow Terrible News Crisis Important Things Constant Cycles Feds Presidency Rail Doomsday

Author:Barack Obama

“There's the occasion when politicians will say things that are simply not true, or that they make commitments that they have no intention of fulfilling. That is something that I think should not happen. That's a no-no. That's a third rail that you shouldn't touch.”

Thinking Should Happens Politician Commitment Thirds Intention Occasions Fulfilling Rail

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“I am at that age when former child stars go off the rails.”

Children Age Stars Former Rail

Author:Charlotte Church

“If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the way, the truth, and the life. This is the importance of grace - some people think that simply being nice and not harming others is morality; others think that following rules and tithing are morality. But without Christ, all moral beliefs ultimately boil down to the one sin which perpetually rails against the concept of grace: man's lawful, religious, and futile attempt at establishing his own righteousness.”

Source: Killosophy

“I like being the villian. I don't know if it has to do with my personality. You get to have a lot more fun as a villian. You don't have to stick to the rules. You can be a lot crazier. You can go off the rails.”

Ifs Knows Fun Personality Sticks Rail

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“It's hard to overemphasize how important Ford's deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first. Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.”

Years Firsts Important Hard Creative Stage Example Benefits Destruction Rate Wave Enormous Rail Deregulation Creative Destruction

Book:The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

Source: The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

“When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation.”

Wise Prejudice Innovation Rail Prevailing Narrow-minded Vindication Vehemence

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“There are lots of different interpretations of the word 'prodigy.' My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children. So in that respect I could be called one, although I don't think I'll go off the rails.”

Thinking Trying Children Different Helping My Own Helping Others Interpretation Rail Prodigies Different Interpretations

Author:Adora Svitak

“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.”

Long Use Asks Justice Arms Rail

Book:Heretics of Dune

Source: Heretics of Dune

“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?”

Ifs Should Long Play Seems Would Be Choices Passion Circumstances Ambition Argument Favors Idle Employed Boundless Rail Amused

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.”

Art Easy Masters Tasks Accomplish Discrimination Cynicism Rail Formidable

Book:The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales

Source: The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales

“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.”

Men Hard Holy Vietnam Riding Pregnant Rail Freeways Vets Pregnant Women Holy Grail Vietnam Vets

Author:Tom Waits

“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.”

Thinking Soul Failing Depth Dare Teeth Leap Twilight Thirst Shallow Plunge Rail

Author:Philip Jose Farmer

“Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.”

Pain Suffering Pleasure Results Rail

Author:Shane MacGowan

“To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.”

My Own Pockets Rail Patents

Book:The life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer

Source: The life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer

“Half-Life is the finest implementation of a game on rails anybody has ever done”

Done Life Is Games Half Finest Rail Implementation Half Life

Author:Warren Spector

“I don't do my show for critics. Early on I did, because I'm a nice guy and I like to be liked by everybody, and I thought, "Hey, I'm just making people laugh, what's the big deal?" There have been all different types of comics that appeal to all different types of people. Why rail on me? But yeah, they really don't like Southern acts.”

People Has Beens Different Shows Bigs Guy Deals Laughing Nice Type Yeah Critics Hey Appeals Southern Big Deal Making People Laugh Rail Nice Guy

Author:Larry the Cable Guy

“The Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board is established in 1946 in an effort to discover the cause of the brown cloud hanging over the city and decide how to combat and disperse it. In 1949, after intense lobbying from both the automobile and oil industries, and against the recommendations and position of the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board, the public rail system, which at one time was the largest in the world, and still serves a majority of the city's population, is decommissioned and torn out. It is replaced by a small fleet of buses.”

Source: Bright Shiny Morning

“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.”

Giving Sometimes Opportunity Virtue Faults Reconcile Rail

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.”

Stills Down And Winter Snow Rail Swans

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“once a policy, like a set of steel rails, had been laid down for him by his superiors, his obedience ran along it unswerving.”

Policy Superiors Obedience Ran Steel Rail

Author:Kylie Tennant

“That, let us rail at women, scorn and flout 'em, We may live with, but cannot live without 'em.”

May Women Ems Scorn Rail

Author:Frederic Reynolds

“As a Fundamentalist I had discovered while I was in college that it is possible to dismiss the entire Church as having gone off the rails by about AD 95. That is, we, with our open Bibles, knew better than did old Ignatius or Clement, who had been taught by the very apostles themselves, just what the Church is and what it should look like.”

Should Looks Church Gone Taught College Bible Ads Apostles Rail Fundamentalist

Author:Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk

“I wish I was a guy who could have pancakes and bacon and cheesy eggs, but I'd curl up and pass out. I gotta start healthy or I'll be off the rails all day.”

Guy Wish Healthy Eggs Rail Curls Cheesy Pancakes

Author:Donnie Wahlberg

“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.”

Men Facts Felt Drinking Rail Brass Old Time Saloons

Book:No Nice Girl Swears

Source: No Nice Girl Swears

“The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other drivers who understand that living in a society means behaving in a commonly beneficial way.”

Way Want May Mean Ends Folks Driving Saving Drivers Highways Beneficial Rail

Author:Steven Weber

“The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.”

Ifs Way Humor Religious Holy Music Is Devil Very Good Scripture Best Way Far Away Hateful Mock Rail Holy Scriptures

Author:Martin Luther

“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.”

Thinking Today Tomorrow Politician Critical Speed Passages Desirable Rail Passage Of Time High Speed High Speed Rail

Author:Anthony Albanese

“Occasionally, I go off the rails. I once nearly killed somebody once - it wasn't funny. I am a lunatic. The pressure of work, the pressure - everyone has a stop valve, and I don't have one.”

Pressure Lunatic Rail Valve

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“When you look at how American national freight systems are connected, it's a bit of a patchwork. When you look at how even road systems and rail systems work across state lines, it's a bit of a patchwork.”

Looks States Bits Lines Connected Rail Patchwork

Author:Anthony Foxx

“If you offer people a decent service, if you give them you know Internet access, if their phones are not cut off on the trains, you know if you have plugs where they can plug in their computers, and if you have a smiling, cheerful staff; and if you can travel really quickly, then you can make a success out of the rail business.”

People Ifs Knows Giving Cutting Internet Offers Computer Train Phones Access Decent Staff Cheerful Rail Plugs Internet Access

Author:Richard Branson

“Some movies run off the rails. This one is like the train crash in The Fugitive. I watched it in mounting gloom, realizing I was witnessing something historic, a film that for decades to come will be the punch line of jokes about bad movies.”

Running Film Realizing Lines Jokes Train Decades Crash Historic Gloom Rail Fugitive Bad Movies

Book:Your Movie Sucks

Source: Your Movie Sucks

“When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.”

Deals Novel Abstraction Rail

Author:Philipp Meyer

“America is ready for livable communities. America is ready for high-speed rail.”

America Community Ready Speed Rail High Speed High Speed Rail

Author:Greg Abbott

“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.”

Self Whole Habit Determination Notion Myth Remarkable Peculiar Self Determination Rail

Author:Jasper Fforde

“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.”

Said Products Devotion Free Market Rail

Author:Patrick Nielsen Hayden

“As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen's poem "Insensibility" puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war.”

Feels Wells War Suffering Compassion Sea Burden I Realized Combat Runners Abyss Rail Suffering Of Others Insensibility

Author:Eugene B. Sledge

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