Train Tracks Quotes

• Todo el mundo dice que quiere ser libre. Saca el tren de las vías y es libre, pero no puede ir a ninguna parte.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspiración, Liderazgo, Eficacia

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• Aunque vayas por buen camino, te atropellarán si te quedas ahí sentado.

  Will Rogers

  Inspiración, Divertido, Vida

  "El discurso de graduación que daría, si alguien me lo pidiera", por Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. 03 de junio de 2015.

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  Ni un sabio ni un valiente se tumban en las vías de la historia a esperar que el tren del futuro les arrolle.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Vida, Cambio, Sabio

  1952 In Time, 6 oct.

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• A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Cowboy, Railroads

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.394, Courier Corporation

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• Parece que la luz al final del túnel puedes ser tú.

  Steven Tyler

  Humor, Las Vegas, Túneles

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• I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.

  Harriet Tubman

  Track, Railroads, Lost

  Quoted in Lyde Cullen Sizer, Divided Houses (1992)

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• If you live up against train tracks, it can make your life a living hell.

  Ted Leo

  Track, Hell, Train

  "Ted Leo and Ben Arthur Discuss Carly Simon, Joyce Carl Oates, and the Touring Grind". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. June 26, 2016.

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• I feel quite lost INSIDE myself, like I'm looking for my train tracks for my life, as if they would just appear and solve the growing questions I seem to face (my reflection in the morning).

  Sabrina Ward Harrison

  Morning, Reflection, Track

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• Para el pesimista, la luz al final del túnel es otro tren.

  Joan Rivers

  Humor, Las Vegas, Túneles

  Joan Rivers (1997). "Recuperarse: I've survived everything-- and I mean everything-- and you can too!", Thorndike Pr

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• If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think.

  James Dyson

  Pensamiento, Gente, Pista

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• The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.

  Robin McKinley

  Track, Roaring, Rope

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• Nada era más actual cuando se construyó, ni es más obsoleto hoy, que la estación de ferrocarril.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Railroads, Today, Obsolete

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• RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Railroads, Purpose

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.176, 谷月社

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• The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted or allow yourself to drift, you will never make it to the destination. It's not like highly defined train tracks or a highway; this is a path that you are creating discovering. The journey is your narrative. Keep to it and there will be a tale told.

  Walter Mosley

  Writing, Journey, Creating

  Walter Mosley (2009). “This Year You Write Your Novel”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

  Harriet Tubman

  Women, Eight, Years

  Quoted in Lyde Cullen Sizer, Divided Houses (1992)

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• Me coge y me deja ingrávida antes de depositarme en la barandilla. Él es lo único que me impide caer hacia atrás, fuera del alcance de la luz del día. No tengo miedo de caer. No temo al cielo más allá de las vías del tren como antes. Puedo ir a cualquier parte siempre que sea con él.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Otoño, Cielo, Largo

  Publicación en FaceBook de Lauren DeStefano del 18 de Jun de 2013.

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• There's a legal term for a problem in public space: something that might draw people to an area-say, across train tracks-where they might be caused harm. It's called a 'public nuisance.' I wouldn't mind being called that for my life's work.

  Vito Acconci

  Space, People, Track

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• September did not want to feel for the Marquess. That’s how villains get you, she knew. You feel badly for them, and next thing you know, you’re tied to train tracks. But her wild, untried heart opened up another bloom inside her, a dark branch heavy with fruit.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Sympathy, Heart, Dark

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). "The Fairyland Series", p.517, Macmillan.

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