Quotes About Transport

To the demoralization of the displaced persons was added with the passing of time the "amoralization" of the occupation personnel, whose black-market activities in cigarettes, medical supplies, food and transport were soon nothing short of staggering

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

I wonder how many European passengers know that the aviation authorities say that passenger and crew health on board public transport airplanes is of no concern to them?

Bicycles are the most efficient vehicles on the planet, 50 times more efficient than cars, and twice as efficient as walking.

When you walk, you need the leg to swing back and forth underneath you. It needs to flex at a certain point, then extend as you follow through your gait. Now, that function doesn't really help at all while I'm standing on my dirt bike or snowmobile.

I love books. I love that moment when you can open one and sink into it. You can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting than yours will ever be.

I love being on my bike, but I don't consider that a sport: it's too pleasant.

There is no subsititue for fishing sense, and if a man doesn't have it, verily, he may cast like an angel and still use his creel largely to transport sandwiches and beer

To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.

Cargo's importance is defined by it's vessel.

Cargo's impotance is defined by it's vessel.

People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel.

Driving to work is a nightmare in most Indian cities; people do it because they have little choice.

Luckily getting to Chandigarh is no problem. It is only a three-hour drive from Delhi.

No matter what else is wrong in the world a book will take you away from it.

War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live. Only thru annihilation of distance in every respect, as the conveyance of intelligence, transport of passengers and supplies and transmission of energy will conditions be brought about some day, insuring permanency of friendly relations.

give her a ride.

LATE IN THE MORNING, A MAN DROVE AN OLD WAGON, hitched to a pair of mules

It was the first selection, the first verdict made on our existence or non-existence. For the great majority of our transport, about 90 percent, it meant death. Their sentence was carried out within the next few hours.

There was neither time nor desire to consider moral or ethical issues. Every man was controlled by one thought only: to keep himself alive for the family waiting for him at home, and to save his friends. With no hesitation, therefore, he would arrange for another prisoner, another "number," to take his place in the transport.

There was neither time nor desire to consider moral or ethical issues. Every man wad controlled by one thought only: to keep himself alive for the family waiting for him at home, and to save his friends. With no hesitation, therefore, he would arrange for another prisoner, another "number," to take his place in the transport.

knowledge, Tilly did volunteer and, for whatever reasons, was approved for transport.

the liftman in the tube is an eternal necessity...

I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with