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“We are but phantoms ... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of its lights.”

Use Light Desire Wind Shadow Train Clouds Carrie Phantoms Straws

Book:The Country of the Blind: H. G. Wells Collections

Source: The Country of the Blind: H. G. Wells Collections

“Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late--and the real test of our humanness is whether, in light of that knowledge, we are ever able to recover. When we again find our way despite the inability to manufacture a deeper meaning in our suffering, that I think is when God smiles upon us, proud of the strength of his creation.”

“The dogs absolutely do bark and play with each other, even though [Marino] says she trains them not to be noisy. But they're animals; that's what they do.”

Play Animal Dog Train Bark Noisy

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.”

Mind Art Pain Joy Hate Pleasure Grief Balance Fairs Train Bounds Dues Hope Love

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton

“I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate, I suppose.”

Kind Train Stations Backwards Expatriates Train Stations

Author:Jarvis Cocker

“I train about four or five times a week. I guess I am addicted to it. I also do a lot of martial arts. More than I have done in awhile. I like to go back to martial arts because it makes me feel good.”

Feels Art Done Five Four Week Art Is Train Feel Good Martial Arts

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train.”

Looks Train Headings

Book:Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

Source: Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

“My team has been very unreceptive about the fact that I consistently show them that I train slightly differently than they do, that I consistently show them that I am in better shape for ski racing than anyone else on the team.”

Has Beens Facts Shows Team Shapes Train Racing Consistently Skis Ski Racing

Author:Bode Miller

“I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.”

Thinking Writing Years My Own White Deals Guilt Train South Drivers South Africa Blindness Writing Life Apartheid

Author:Athol Fugard

“You can be strong as any boy if you'll work hard and train yourself in athletics, the way boys do.”

Ifs Way Hard Strong Boys Hard Work Train Athletics

Book:The Secret History of Wonder Woman

Source: The Secret History of Wonder Woman

“The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.”

Trying Hands Parent Example Building Train Setting Settings Pulling Good Examples Setting A Good Example

Book:The Duties of Parents

Source: The Duties of Parents

“I don't have a favorite body part nor do I have a favorite exercise. Everyone who is honest prefers machines over free-weights, because machines are more convenient and cause less muscle pain and require less concentration and are generally less dangerous. BUT, if you like to have real gains you have to train hard and heavy, and you have to chose always the LEAST favorite exercises which actually give you the best possible results. So go for the least favorite exercises, the free weights... and go for the muscle pain!”

Ifs Giving Real Hard Body Pain Causes Results Honest Dangerous Exercise Gains Machines Weight Train Heavy Muscles Concentration Convenient Train Hard

Author:Nasser El Sonbaty

“Today I arrived by train in New York City, which I'd never seen before, walked through the grandeur of Grand Central Terminal, stepped outside, got my first look at the city and instantly fell in love with it. Silently, inside myself, I yelled: I should have been born here!”

Should Firsts Looks Has Beens Today Born Cities New York Should Have Train New York City Should Have Been Grandeur Terminal

Book:A Diary of the Century: Tales from America's Greatest Diarist

Source: A Diary of the Century: Tales from America's Greatest Diarist

“The towns and countryside that the traveller sees through a train window do not slow down the train, nor does the train affect them. Neither disturbs the other. This is how you should see the thoughts that pass through your mind when you meditate.”

Should Mind Doe Window Towns Train Slow Down Traveller Countryside

Author:Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

“If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.”

Ifs Enough Courses Train Nervous

Author:Haile Gebrselassie

“Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind, under the general head of liberty.”

Men Mind Young Pleasure Liberty Train Notion Noise Young Man Mistaken Idleness Riot Mischief Nameless Ennui

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Beauty and strength were, both of them, much esteemed; Then wealth was discovered and soon after gold Which quickly became more honoured than strength or beauty. For men, however strong or beautiful, Generally follow the train of a richer man.”

Men Beautiful Strong Wealth Gold Train

Book:De rerum natura

Source: De rerum natura

“New York City subways are now getting high speed Internet. How about some high speed subway trains?”

Cities New York Internet Train Speed New York City Subway Getting High High Speed

Author:David Letterman

“Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation of all modern progress. Machinery, trains, automobiles, the telegraph have played important parts in his own colossal life! Fifty years of public service, in prison and out, wrestling daily with practical details and harsh realities in the political world, have only increased his balance, open-mindedness, sanity, and humorous appreciation of the quaint human spectacle.”

“When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!”

Wells Art Body Fighting Talking Baby Train Your Body Martial Arts

Author:Bruce Lee

“How the false truths of the years of youth have passed!Have passed at full speed like trains which never stoppedThere where I stood and waited, hardly aware,How little I knew, or which of them was the oneTo mount and ride to hope or where true hope arrives.”

Years Littles Youth Train Speed

Book:Summer knowledge; new and selected poems, 1938-1958

Source: Summer knowledge; new and selected poems, 1938-1958

“I'm attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there's no shortage of that in Los Angeles.”

People Creative Train Los Angeles Wrecks Creative People Shortage Train Wrecks

Author:Pete Wentz

“Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men’s unsupported overconfidence.”

“Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price.”

Knows Men Made Stills Soul Home Evil Pay Cities Teach Honest He Man Grew Late Lows Shame Lays Train Folks Currents Deeds Made It Pay The Price Practise Warp Villainy

Book:Antigone

Source: Antigone

“When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. ... No man lives who has not got a panic button, and when it is pressed by the clean white hand of moral duty, a certain murderous train is set in motion.”

Men Hands Certain Dies White Moral Duty Goodness Train Clean Terror Panic Buttons Irrational Moral Duty Moral Goodness

Book:Collected Essays: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Collected Essays: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all the evils in its train that they might reign & ride on its whirlwinds & direct the Storm The free people of these United States have spoken, and consigned these wicked demagogues to their proper doom.”

People Men War Country States Might Evil United United States Fate Ought Direct Train Storm Civil War Wicked Ambitious Reign Doom Gallows Ambitious Man

Author:Andrew Jackson

“Department store Santas are apparently being trained to lower children's expectations about toys because of the recession. Yeah, it's weird when you ask Santa for a train set and he's like, 'Yeah, how 'bout a bus token?”

Children Asks Expectations Yeah Train Stores Department Bus Toys Santa Recessions Tokens Department Stores

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I prefer you to take as your model a mediocre sculpture rather than an excellent painting, for from painted objects we train our hand only to make a likeness, whereas from sculptures we learn to represent both likeness and correct incidence of light.”

Hands Light Objects Painting Models Train Excellent Mediocre Sculpture Incidence

Author:Leon Battista Alberti

“There is nothing like having to change your physical form to put you in contact with every weak part of yourself, to train yourself in discipline. Put somebody on a treadmill and I'll tell you how good they are at any other thing they do in life.”

Form Discipline Weak Train Contact Treadmills

Author:Will Smith

“I did kung fu from when I was nine to 13. You have to be really careful but you want to be able to make it look eventually as though it's just a part of you. So, you train over and over and over again.”

Want Looks Able Train Careful Nine Kung Fu

Author:Channing Tatum

“I consider myself a decent athlete but when I started to train martial arts like Kung Fu, I realised it had nothing to do with how athletic you are. It's all mental. It's what you know, how you use it and your mental toughness and composure. It's incredible.”

Knows Art Use Know How Train Incredibles Athlete Decent Martial Arts Athletic Realised Toughness Kung Fu Composure Mental Toughness

Author:Channing Tatum

“He [Andrew Carnegie] wanted people to be able to lift themselves, to educate themselves, to train themselves. And there was no better way to do that than with libraries.”

People Way Able Wanted Train Library Lifts Educate Better Ways Andrew Carnegie

Author:David Nasaw

“Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.”

Artist Train Accidents Painter Competence

Author:Sergei Bongart

“Draw places you have seen from memory. I used to paint things I had glimpsed through windows while riding in the elevated train.”

Used Memories Draws Window Train Paint Riding

Author:John French Sloan

“If you have never taken the train across Canada, you really should put it on your life list... Meanwhile, I get to sit back and watch for moose from the dome car as we roll through the lake-dotted vastness of the boreal forest.”

Ifs Should Watches Taken Car Travel Train Lists Forests Canada Lakes Vastness Domes Moose

Author:Elizabeth May

“The sole fact of having a school to train creative people is absolute lunacy... The idea of 'pedagogical vision' is ignoble, it has nothing to do with art, it's contrary to art. I really believe in teaching, despite what I say.”

People Believe Art Ideas Facts School Education Vision Creative Teaching Absolutes Train Contrary Despite Sole Creative People Ignoble Lunacy

Author:Christian Boltanski

“Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York and the hardscrabble Midwest; and the other, a casualty of a string of foster homes—each struggling to transcend a past of isolation and hardship. Orphan Train will hold you in its grip as their fascinating tales unfold.”

“Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning. The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings.”

“I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine.”

Ifs Feels Realizing Novel Missing Fine Circumstances Blue Train Chapters Compulsion Finishing Dickens

Book:Rules of Civility

Source: Rules of Civility

“Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?”

Stills Hours Work Company Sitting Train Miles Sixty Going To Work Human Resources Getting High Sitting Still Large Companies

Author:J. Paul Getty

“I had now officially secured my front row seat on the train to Hell. Choo choo”

Hell Fronts Train Seats Secured

Author:Tarryn Fisher

“I think everyone should read The Girl on The Train, especially if they loved Gone Girl. It's about Rachel, a girl who sees a couple on her commute. Then one day she sees one of the people from the couple kiss another person. The next day they go missing. The story is told by 3 different perspectives, all characters you absolutely can't trust. It's an insane psychological thriller that's seriously addicting and the kind of book you can't put down.”

“Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds.”

Flower Spring Train Seeds Fading

Book:Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life

Source: Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life

“There is nothing disastrous in the temporary nature of our ideas. They are always that. But there may very easily be a train of evil in the self-deception which regards them as final. I think God will forgive us our skepticism sooner than our Inquisitions.”

Thinking May Ideas Self Evil Regard Forgiving Train Finals Gods Will Deception Temporary Skepticism Self Deception Inquisition

Book:A Preface to Politics

Source: A Preface to Politics

“Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.”

People Ifs Spring Sitting Train Railway

Book:Poems, 1913-1956

Source: Poems, 1913-1956

“Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.”

Mean Individual Nations Sports Wonder England Train Western Tiny Toys Passengers Insufficient Indignant Locomotives

Book:The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902

Source: The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902

“He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.”

Chance Train Brave Noble Fearless Sudden Death

Book:The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

“When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear.”

Tears Sorrow Waste Train Vain Mourning Worthless Stains Homage Pageant

Book:Life and Speeches

Source: Life and Speeches

“To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired people coming home in the evening, is a heartbreaking task for men who know good writing from bad. They do it, but instinctively draw out of harm's way anything precious that might be damaged by contact with the public, or anything sharp that might irritate its skin.”

People Knows Men Way Writing Home Might Morning Draws Tasks Skins Tired Train Busy Harm Contact Journalism Evening Coming Home Catching Heartbreaking Good Writing

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want to work -- will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.”

Want Hard Life Is Easy Trouble Train Calm Complicated Reform Faculty Discontent Life Is Hard Make Others Happy

Book:The Job: An American Novel

Source: The Job: An American Novel

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