Quotes About Station

I had also been hit by at least four different recognition scans. These scans are usually searching for known humans or augmented humans that the station security is keeping tabs on, not random escaped SecUnits. (Random escaped SecUnits is not nearly as prevalent a problem as the entertainment feed would have you believe.)

Because they are all refugees in the Preservation Alliance, descended from people who were left to die because rescue was deemed not cost-effective. Because they stand on this station built from the ship that saved their grandparents' lives, that helped them for no other reason than because it was there and it could. Instead Ephraim asks her, "Can you separate that person from the purpose they were created for?

No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall, for fuck's sake.)

Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble.

No outsider was allowed in the station except wives of the higher officers and a few friends. Where was Harriet in all this excitement? In the station, taking the train with the troops to Piraeus.

there are . . . in every age a few in whose lot the meaning of that age is concentrated"? "I feel that I am one of those persons in my age and sex," she told him. "I feel chosen among women." Margaret would preserve her right to fill an apostolic station, if called.

Why is the station so far out of the city limits anyway? Most likely a collusion between the builders of stations and the builders of long roads.

Su un muro della stazione Sèvres-Babylone ho visto uno strano graffito: DIO HA VOLUTO INEGUAGLIANZE, NON INGIUSTIZIE, c'era scritto. Mi sono chiesto chi potesse essere quella persona così bene informata sulle intenzioni di Dio.

As a result, the only sensible course of action for trade on a void station was to talk loudly, swagger noticeably, wear your weapons openly, and check everything twice; or, failing that, see who the people who could manage those things bought from and do the same, on the basis that those merchants were likely to be fairly honest at least some of the time. "Let's

The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station was graphic evidence, not only of how obsolete our technology was, but also of the failure of the old system. At the same time, and such is the irony of history, it severely affected our reforms by literally knocking the country off its tracks.

My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.

Hope and fear are two wings by means of which those who are brought near fly to every commendable station, and two mounts on which every steep ascent of the paths of the next world is traversed.

What music do you like?" he asked between calls. "Cheery, chirpy pop." Wincing, he pulled up a station that delivered exactly that. "You owe me." "Come on"—she turned in her seat to face him once more—"it's not that bad." "I'm sorry? I can't hear you past the sugar blocking my eardrums.

Lucky settled on an NPR-type station that played jazz—not New Orleans–type jazz, but the other kind, you know, New York type or something where you get the feeling that everybody playing an instrument went to college someplace fancy and studied music until they just about ruined all their natural instincts.

As late as 1842, "squatter" was still considered a "term, denoting infamy of life or station," of a lesser rank than the class-neutral "settler.

Were it not for frustration and humiliation I suppose the human race would get ideas above its station.

If I ever become a serial murderer, I'll be very careful to kill people in a pattern that centres around a police station - and not my home or work.

I found it impossible to tear myself away from my station and plunge into Hungary. I feel the same disability now; a momentary reluctance to lay hands on this particular fragment of the future; not out of fear, but because, within arm's reach and still intact, this future seemed, and still seems, so full of promised marvels.

And the angel told me, “These are the four spirits of heaven, going forth from their station before the Lord of all the earth.