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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
— Montesquieu
Rail is such an undignified way to travel. All that rapid racing about. Floating has so much more gravitas.
— Gail Carriger
To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.
— George Stephenson
Passenger rail development takes time, but good things come to those who are patient and stay the course.
— Thelma Drake
Great triumphs of engineering genius - the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail - ... are rather invention than engineering proper.
— Arthur Mellen Wellington
Pipelines are by far the safest way to transport petroleum. They are safer than tankers, safer than trucks, safer than rail.
— John Hoeven
Excuse me for a moment, will ye. I think I have to talk to the river,' he said unsteadily and flopped over the side-rail.
— Ian Livingstone
You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
— Margaret Thatcher
Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.
— John Shelton Reed
How is it that one rails against that which is nearly a certainty?
— Mary Anne Radmacher
Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours.
— Brendan Fraser
Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
The gun jammed on the last shot and the baby stood holding the crib rail, eyes wild, bawling.
— Louise Erdrich
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
— William Congreve
How drunk do you need to be for your best friend to rail you?
— Santino Hassell
Rail travel for me is the most relaxing, most scenic way to see the country.
— John Paul DeJoria
...the road, rail, and port systems are so bad that poor countries cannot develop the scale of operations necessary to achieve high productivity.
— William W. Lewis
We're going off the rails on a crazy train.
— Ozzy Osbourne
High-speed rail would revolutionise interstate travel and would also be an economic game-changer for dozens of regional communities along its path.
— Anthony Albanese
Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.
— Will Rogers
Practice provides the rails on which knowledge flows.
— John Seely Brown
The Rail Fence Cipher Suppose
— Martin Gardner
Passengers want options, and when they have options, like passenger rail, they choose them.
— Anthony Foxx
As I get older I tend to rail against the world more and more.
— John Connolly
It's absolutely essential that Melbourne, and Victoria, has a rail link to the airport.
— Denis Napthine
If you hear a man rail at the Bible, you can usually conclude that he never reads it.
— Charles Spurgeon
Maybe he wasn't the balloon who'd been cut loose, but the one who'd untied himself from the rail.
— Joey W. Hill
I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face - or so I was told.
— Grace Jones
I've got a crooked elbow and I generally say my prayers with one leg on a brass rail.
— Edward Abbey
Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.
— Remy De Gourmont
Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.
— Thomas Jefferson
But let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.
— Frank Herbert
For the very young to rail against their own bitter fate, they must draw upon all their strength and spirit. That is why they are so steadfast.
— Miyuki Miyabe
I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it.
— Julie Bowen
We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.
— Mike Rutherford
The rail service is important for my district.
— Jerry Weller
Do we have to be rail thin to possess 'outer beauty' and sex appeal and to be capable of attracting lovers?
— Allison Anders
We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways.
— Corrine Brown
In my heart, I'm always in my rail-hosen.
— Alex Ebert
Well-meanin' man. Did it all for the best." Stalky curled gracefully round the stair-rail. "Head in a drain-pipe. Full confession in the left boot.
— Rudyard Kipling
The passage of time is likely to make high-speed rail more and more desirable, making it critical that politicians of today think ahead to tomorrow.
— Anthony Albanese
I was never a rail-thin person.
— Jessica Capshaw
Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.
— Shane MacGowan
Far too many advocates rail against this or that sexual practice; few state clearly and explicitly what we are for.
— Michael Rittenhouse
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
— Henry Fielding
This is the echo of the approaching train in ears pressed to the rail.
— Christian Rudder
There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.
— William Shakespeare
What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Rail longer than train cars ; and the hope than our reasons. (Rail plus long que les wagons ; - Et l'espoir que nos raisons.)
— Charles De Leusse
When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
If some have the pleasure of riding on a rail, others have the misfortune to be ridden upon.
— Henry David Thoreau
What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rail attendants dismiss excited train hobbyists as "foamers" (foaming at the mouth as they board their choo-choos).
— Mark Leibovich
Juliette felt a wash of fear and relief, those two opposites twisting together like staircase and rail.
— Hugh Howey
Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.
— Dionysius Lardner
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.
— Gail Carson Levine
Australia has an economic interest in ensuring our cities have 21st century urban rail transport to reduce traffic congestion.
— Anthony Albanese
I'm pleased to announce that my government will build the much-needed Melbourne airport rail link.
— Denis Napthine
Normal is a bitter pill that we rail against.
— Caitlin R. Kiernan
I'll rail against what I think is wrong.
— Neil Cavuto
There is no such thing as a Democratic or Republican road, bridge, port, airfield or rail system.
— Anthony Foxx
Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.
— Susanna Centlivre
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
— Aeschylus
Keel-mounted rail gun," Alex said with a grin. " - that scream of overcompensating for tiny, tiny penises, but might prove useful.
— James S.A. Corey
The top has no limits. We can keep on climbing. That's what people do. NoThat's what I do. — Ryohgo Narita
electricity consumption, rail cargo and bank loans.
— Matthew Crabbe
