#trains

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#bump #business #causing #dull #going

We usually use that mostly on the weekends because we have access to the range during the week. But I can tell you a number of times they have had a training holiday at Fort Benning, so nobody trains, and to drag him in is like pulling teeth. ↗

— Nancy Johnson

#because #drag #during #fort #had

The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good. ↗

— George Washington

#atmosphere #deserve #everywhere #evil #firearms

If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#cancer #cured #declared #had #i

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all. ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

#fall #field #flower #fools #fortune

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#aspect #being #beings #bound #chain

Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico. ↗

— Anthony Quinn

#chihuahua #coast #down #finished #into

I’m nearsighted in one eye and farsighted in another. Instead of railroad tracks converging in the distance, the workers got lazy halfway there and switched from building one side of the track to the other. So when my brother was standing in front of an oncoming train, I told him not to be worried – the tracks are still under construction. I just never expected the train to have hovering technology. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#humor #trains #vision #funny

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. ↗

— William Godwin

#education #him #his #into #lead

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains. ↗

— Joe Hill

#could #every #mighty #notion #ocean