Quotation Explorer - 'Train'

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . . - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why is it a man can never seem to buckle down and train himself to indolence and stupidity when he can see what sanctuary they offer from toil and pain? - Alan LeMay
Here is a very simple strategy of life: When the train arrives at the station, be at the station! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Through the practice of meditation, of calming and focusing our mind, as well as developing greater clarity and a sense of awareness, we train ourselves to recognize the wealth that was already there - the very wealth others fail to recognize. - Stephen Richards
Fuck me, Sonny! She cried. I did. She came immediately. I felt like I was trying to board a moving train wearing roller skates. - Sonny Duncan
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. - Charles Dickens
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. - Tryon Edwards
Mothers train your children to only Speak Truth - Imran Khan
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
You see, Valentin, there is no such thing as time. It's just a road, a path to travel on. Most of the world is on a train, traveling forward all the time, speeding toward death, with a set schedule and someone else in charge. - Daniel Nayeri
Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others. - Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib
Everyone wants to ride the train but not everyone wants to lay the tracks - AJ Joshi
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
One's life is not as fixed as one believes. Surprises may lie in store for you, the unexpected often tends to happen, sometimes bringing in its train the most delightful change in one's life or circumstances. - Elizabeth Aston
if ethics is not the engine of success, in the train of growth, it sure is a guard, with a flag, which may be green, or at times red - Priyavrat Thareja
HOW TO MAKE A REVOLUTIONARY CONSCIOUSNESS IS: educate yourself. On the train, for example, read the same two pages of Das Kapital over and over, willing them to make sense. - Garth Risk Hallberg
the train is moving, so either jump in or jump out but i dare you to stand in front of it !! - Hisham Fawzi
Resolutely train yourself to attain peace. - Gautama Buddha
Self-leadership is the most effective way to train leaders. How do you do that? Empower them to make decisions, you as a leader back them up and allow them to follow through - Janna Cachola
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
The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible - William S. Burroughs
We couldn’t believe our luck, and for a little while it felt like we were on some big train rolling down a hill, and all we cared about was how great it felt to be going fast. - Meg Rosoff
The train hit her with the sound of a meat-filled hefty bag smacking the pavement, and the effect was much the same, I guess. (Dark City Lights) - Warren Moore
Money - you demolish cities, root men from their homes, you train and twist good minds and set them on to the most atrocious schemes. No limit, you make them adept at every kind of outrage, every godless crime - money - Sophocles (trans. Robert Fagles)
Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still. - C.S. Lewis
If you stand in the way of two people who were meant to be together, destiny's train will run you over. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Then the dreaded words, Your child has autism. These words echo in their heads like a freight train blasting through their hopes and dreams. - Dr. Linda Barboa
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you. - Jonathan Safran Foer
Jiu Jitsu gives me an ideal to strive toward. Technical mastery lies on an infinite continuum and completion of this skill is impossible. Every time I train I have something that I can improve upon, and this will hold true for each and every training session that lies between me and my grave. - Chris Matakas
If you train a dog it will follow you but if you train yourself you will be Great. - Mike Desert
The same bourgeois magic everywhere the mail train sets you down. - Arthur Rimbaud
Better to get off the train at this station. Than to do it later, when it's too late. Remember Time doesn't wait! - Deyth Banger
The more we train a man to labor, deliberate, dictate and demand over the inconsequential, the less capable his mind becomes of holding that of consequence. - Geoffrey Wood
Remember, you are training your mind. You are either training it to look for things to go wrong or you are training it to look for things to go right. Train yourself to think only positive thoughts - Karon Waddell
It was all a matter of timing," she says. "My train was late that day. The day I saw you drop your notebook. Had it been on schedule we never would have met. Maybe we were never meant to. It was a possibility, one of thousands, and not inevitable, the way some things are. - Erin Morgenstern
We could give each other a hope, if we communicate with each other in the school, supermarket, bus, train, plane….! - Lailah Gifty Akita
Well we've moved through the funfair a bit - we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train. - Steven Moffat
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe. - Lydia Sigourney
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry? - Noam Chomsky
Let’s train ourselves to not hate each other. We all come from the same consciousness in the mind. - Allan Wesler
The train brings out some of the best and the worst memories of my life. I like to watch the train. It makes me sad but gives hope as well. It connects me to my family, which I abandoned many years ago. I fled away from my family and home by a train only. - Ravi Ranjan Goswami
If you sleep on the train, you will miss your station; if you sleep at the station, you will miss your train! You can control your fate only when you are awake! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Any body can laugh in Joy, but the bold ones also smile in pain…knowing that pain is just like a zooming train, that will soon pass by. - R.v.m.
If life is a joyful serious journey, then peace should be the train and happiness should be the destination. - Debasish Mridha
I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having any way to express itself. Given a crayon and paper, I would not draw a train or a house. I would draw these monsters, beasts and demons. - Clive Barker
Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it. - Bible
The key to gainful employment is creating a work environment and filing system too complex to train a new person on. Competency gets you work. Confusion keeps you employed.
Travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures. - Paul Sheehan
Give me a moment I am preparing to drawback to screamLouder than a train overhead below a railroad bridge - John E. Wordslinger
But it's like no matter how much energy you pour into getting to the station on time, or getting on the right train, there's still no guarantee that anybody's gonna be there for you to pick you up when you get there. - Nancy Oliver
never put all the good people in one plane, ship, train ..... - Jay Woodman
My circus train pulls through the nightFull of lions and trapeze artistsI'm done with elephants and clownsI want to run away and join the office - Mike Doughty
All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness. - Richard Lamm
It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry - Bob Dylan
Life is going on even if you are not on the train. - Debasish Mridha
Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it. Those whistles sing bewitchment: railways are irresistible bazaars... Anything is possible on a train... - Paul Theroux
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy. - Jean Baptiste Montegut
I want to board a train, and leave my books behind. I want to be so caught up in writing about the journey, that I forget that fiction & fact are not the same. The destination does not signify. - Hannah Harding
They don’t know I only speak in runaway train stationsand everybody is always a few minutes too late to the platform.No one has ever gotten the chance to get too closebecause it is never romantic to fuck the girl who makes love to her own sadness every single night. - Katelin Wagner
You must train harder than the enemy who is trying to kill you. You will get all the rest you need in the grave. - Leon Degrelle
You will fall in love with train rides, and sooner or later you willrealize that nowhere seems like home anymore. - Shinji Moon
If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic. - Ann Druyan
Hope" is our life's train fuel. - Hisham Fawzi
Do not fear, you mind may be criticizes for losing track. Enjoy the fact that most may not ride the same train of thought. - C. Jerry
Putting in effort is like riding a bicycle on train tracks, you will get to where you want to go but you will feel every bump along the way. - Davis Levy
If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man’s character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train. - Mehmet Murat ildan
Beware of following a train of thought. - Marty Rubin
Train your eyes to see the beauty in every little thing. - Debasish Mridha
You can stop a raging forest fire, a herd of stampeding buffalo or even a runaway freight train, but you can’t stop a good man". - John Paul Warren
The world is a wonderous train stop on your soul's journey. You will not be here for long so enjoy as much as you can. There is peace in the smallest moments if you stop long enough to breathe them in. - Monika Zands
He looked left and she turned right ment to be together but not that night... - Train
Train yourself by blessing those who treat you badly and you will take on the nature of God. - Sunday Adelaja
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train - Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still? - J. Paul Getty
Remember, you are training your mind. You are either training to look for things to go wrong or you are training it to look for anything to go right. Train yourself to think only positive thoughts. - Karon Waddell
Un con qui marche va plus loin que dix intellectuels assis en train de réfléchir. - Michel Audiard
You'll spend every Saturday night on the bathroom floor with no recollection of the night before You're a train wreck and everything that's in between Being alone doesn't seem so bad to me - Real Friends
Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have the power to shape our lives, by the way we think. Only that to have a progressive life, we must train ourselves into thinking in a certain way. - Ndiritu Wahome
I play chicken with the train - Cowboy Troy
It's something that this country hasn't had to deal with. But there's going to be a whole new generation that doesn't know their father. It's almost selfish of us to die. They train us as warriors. But they don't teach us how to take the pain away. - Jim Sheeler
there are so many dayswhen living stops and pulls up and sitsand waits like a train on the rails. - Charles Bukowski
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. - Plato
When our Journey of life is like a Train with Some Stops but Always can reach to a destination which can make ourselves and others happy, then we are on the good way. - Jan Jansen
Training is the word we use now. To train means to teach a particular skill over a period of time. Every time you get up, show up, work out, you are training yourself to be better, to live happier and healthier. Don’t expect results in a snap. Remember, change takes however long it takes. - Toni Sorenson
Authentic joy is not a euphoric state or a feeling of being high. Rather, it is a state of appreciation that allows us to participate full in our lives. We train in the rejoicing in the good fortune of self and others. - Pema Chödrön
Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose. - George Lucas
Learn and train yourself to take the hits in life. Obstacles, barriers and setbacks will come. What matters is how you tackle them, work your way around or find your way through them. - Roopleen
Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths—until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about. - Vladimir Nabokov
Life is an adventurous ride in a train we call time. - Debasish Mridha
People should train their brain by watching films, by listening music, by playing games, by reading quotes. If people do this, I can said from this a big percent from here you can become clever. - Deyth Banger
Want to come one step closer to wisdom? Then you have to train yourself unconditionally in forbearance. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them. - Eugene Paul Wigner
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. - Mary Hemingway
We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to challenge them. In Buddha's opinion, to train in staying open and curious - to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs - is the best use of our human lives. - Pema Chödrön
So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person. - Thich Nhat Hanh
Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he'd jumped off the New Brunswick train bridge. - Junot Díaz
The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train. - Robert Lowell
The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled. - Robert Benchley
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by. - Christopher Morley
The real train of knowledge isn't a static entity that can be stopped and subdivided. Its always going somewhere.
The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate--it's either in their DNA or it's not. - Richard Branson
It turned out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are the plane, the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. - Anna Quindlen
Martie was large, at least by Inuit standards, with skin the colour of an heirloom suitcase and a voice like a cartoon train wreck. - McGrath M. J.
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