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Quotes About Rails

You'll be one of us, so long as you'll remain in love with your rails and your engines—and they'll lead you back to us, no matter how many times you lose your way. The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.
~ Ayn Rand
A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.
~ bierce ambrose iii
So Elena goes out. Can you see her? Over there, on the path by the fence made of wire and disoriented wooden rails. Now in the shadows of the juniper, now coming into the light. There.
~ Gregory Maguire
I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.
~ Dan Aykroyd
The arbitrariness of the revolutionaries is terrible not because they're villains, but because it's a mechanism out of control, like a machine that's gone off the rails.
~ Boris Pasternak
A steam locomotive engineer is referred as a 'hogger'; Does this reference have to do with his 'lapping-up' many miles over the silver rails?
~ Francis M. Faber Jr.
Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel.
~ Jim Ryun
He added that "argumentation by use of force has the same significance as argumentation by use of economic means, and sometimes greater significance, when the market [grain procurements] has been spoiled and they try to turn our entire economic policy onto the rails of capitalism, which we will not do.
~ Stephen Kotkin
I'm all about personal satisfaction, I'm beginning to see a pattern: jumping on the short-term-gratification train always seems to wreck me off the rails somehow.
~ Karen Marie Moning
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, wheron my soul is grooved to run.
~ Herman Melville
I've done 'The Love Boat' twice. I had a great time, but my ego rails against it.
~ Peter Scolari
The beams and bridges cut the light on the ground into little triangles and the rails run round
~ Suzanne Vega
You're off the fucking rails, and I'm not having it. Now be a good little sociopath and shut the fuck up while you get taken in for medical treatment." In
~ J.R. Ward
The Congress is dividing the country on the lines of caste and regions. We need a stable government to put the country and its economy back on the rails.
~ N. Chandrababu Naidu
Like most depressions that plague people who have been more fortunate than most, I was ashamed of mine because there appeared to me no convincing cause for it; I just felt as though I had come off the rails somewhere.
~ Nick Hornby
She had laid the headboard down flat near the flowerbeds that bordered the house, with the side rails below it and the slats to either side in neat rows, like ribs. It was as if the bed had drawn a deep breath and then gracefully flattened itself into the grass.
~ Celeste Ng
we'd all agreed that a bed without rails was age appropriate.
~ James Patterson
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.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Looking back, my abstinence was less a function of convictions and more because I was too much of a dork to be invited to parties. One doesn't stumble into many dens of iniquity on the way to a speech meet. Let's be real here. I'd have snorted rails off a hooker's ass if a preppy guy named Kip or Trip or Chip handed me the straw.
~ Jen Lancaster
it is urgent that my chemical alter ego, so in love with digressions, get back on the rails, which is that of fornicating with matter in order to support myself
~ Primo Levi
Righteousnessis like the train that travels on the track. If not for the rails, the train wouldn't have anything to run on.
~ Priscilla Shirer
The thing pursuing him, however, was not only his past but also his fate, and the rails that led away from it also led inexorably to it.
~ Dean Koontz
In truth, there were no tracks of destiny through the chaos of life, only paths forged by decisions. She had dreamed of riding a fast train to stardom, but the rails and ties of those tracks had never been carefully laid.
~ Dean Koontz