Top 252 Rail Quotes & Sayings

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.

There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.

I was on set [Romeo + Juliet] maybe an hour for two days. It was in this big cathedral in Mexico City. I just remember being up there in the balcony, and it was myself up front and there was a choir behind me. In front of me was this rail, like this cement rail, and I was like, "Oh my gosh!" Because I was a kid then, and I'm like, "We're kinda high ... I hope I don't flip over," because I'm very clumsy.

Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours.

Normal is a bitter pill that we rail against.

There has to be essentially a completely new regulatory framework for Hyperloop because it is not high-speed rail. It's not rail.

It's absolutely essential that Melbourne, and Victoria, has a rail link to the airport.

The "Green" community, the enviro people, are preoccupied with running all the cars differently. Our techno-grandiosity has us gibbering about high-speed rail - which we don't have the capital for anymore - but nobody is interested in repairing the existing rail system, which would be far less costly and hugely beneficial for us. In short, we are acting cluelessly. And life is tragic. The clueless usually suffer.

I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it.

The establishment of rail line and railway network expansion has always been of prime importance.

Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.

It is true that we need a consensus to go forward with restoring passenger rail in America, and often a consensus is formed by political action, via government. That is all true. But we have no such consensus, and no one in government or politics these days has the will or the force of personality or perhaps even the understanding of the situation to get on with job of forming a consensus supporting rail.

Comedians can't afford to get too comfortable; we need something to rail against.

If we do high-speed rail, the governor has to be intelligent and invest the dollars at the 'bookends' - San Francisco and Los Angeles.

I'm pleased to announce that my government will build the much-needed Melbourne airport rail link.

I'll rail against what I think is wrong.

Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail.

Do we have to be rail thin to possess 'outer beauty' and sex appeal and to be capable of attracting lovers?

We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.

A day without a dark cloud. Almost a happy day. There were three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days like that in his stretch. From the first clang of the rail to the last clang of the rail. Three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days. The three extra days were for leap years.

Rail in Europe is incredibly important as far as a transportation medium.

Obviously, if you look at the history of rail in the U.S., it took courageous entrepreneurs to have that vision of connecting the whole nation from east to west.

Efficiency, connectivity and productivity are all economic buzzwords that people have said high-speed rail will deliver. But at the heart of it what high-speed rail will deliver is growth and jobs.

I gave him a kick and he stepped back onto the third rail. Exploding, flaming eraser! This is why moms tell you to stay away from the third rail, but it sure came in handy this time.

We're building the infrastructure we need, whether it be the Melbourne Rail Link, the airport rail link which Melburnians have so wanted for over 40 years, upgrading the Pakenham-Cranbourne railway line, or building the East-West Link.

Gazzy: "What does that mean?" (points to metal plaque warning to stay off the third rail that said Stay off the third rail!) Fang: "It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it. Touch it and you're human popcorn.

If you hear a man rail at the Bible, you can usually conclude that he never reads it.

In my heart, I'm always in my rail-hosen.

I was never a rail-thin person.

What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

The main problem with rail is flexibility and affordability.

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face - or so I was told.

When I see something wrong, I just rail against it.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

The U.S. has always been a global innovation vanguard - driving advancements in computing, communication, and media to rail, automobiles, and aeronautics.

I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive.

International examples prove that high-speed rail pays for itself.

Rail is such an undignified way to travel. All that rapid racing about. Floating has so much more gravitas.

China has gotten high-speed rail right, where the United States has not.

Passenger rail development takes time, but good things come to those who are patient and stay the course.

Mr. Xi is all-in on robotics, aerospace, high-speed rail, new-energy vehicles and advanced medical products.

You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger champion of high-speed rail than me when the bond went to voters. I believed in it.

Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.

The safest way to ship bitumen is by rail. Now, there are other things that you get doing it that way. There's probably more greenhouse gases in shipping it by rail. I think certainly there are.

You come to Washington, there's a rail bill, there's a highway bill, there's a aviation bill. But when you go home, there's an airport, there's a highway, there's a rail, there's transit. It all has to work together.

Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.

Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.

Most older people don't talk about the past so they won't have to admit that their life ran on the wrong rail.

Mediocrity is a hand-rail.

To pretend I was sliding down the stair rail." He laughed again. " You should have done it. I would have caught you at the bottom.

There is no such thing as a Democratic or Republican road, bridge, port, airfield or rail system.

It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.

Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.

When we talk about product by pipeline or product by rail we need to be highly specific about what product we are shipping and under what terms and for what purpose. Solid bitumen by rail is safe as houses, but as again crude by rail poses different risk.

I mean, these are kids that are getting on rail cars, riding the top of rail cars all the way up through Mexico. I mean, the danger that they're put in, the sexual assaults that are occurring - I mean, all of this is a great consternation, I think, for any of us. But when they come here and then they're dumped on our cities and our counties and our state is expected to pick up the costs, there's a point in time where you say, 'Quit giving these individuals incentives to come up and then be resettled in the United States'. That's the real issue for me.

Many people are unable to see friends and family as often as they'd like due to the cost of rail travel.

I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.

'Chip Away' is somewhat of a rail against cable news and divisive agendas... all for the almighty dollar.