#carriage

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission. ↗

— James Buchan

#been #carriages #catastrophic #century #electricity

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#carriage #could #death #held #i

The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#healing #love #miscarriage #solidarity #suffering

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly. ↗

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#am #best #cannot #carriage #during

Ann: I feel like I should read verses and be comforted. But it doesn’t happen. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#miscarriage #trials #faith

The train we had so confidently boarded had been speeding at almost 100 miles an hour and it had derailed. Someone, I can't remember who, showed me a newspaper photograph of the carriage we had been sitting in tilted on its side on a station platform next to a large notice that said Welcome to Potters Bar. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#bar #been #carriage #confidently #had

I've travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you're in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax. ↗

— Honor Blackman

#carriage #discovered #get #hold #i