Contrack Railroad Quotes & Sayings

If everyone saw himself as a citizen of the world rather than of his town, city or country, the world would be a more peaceful, better place where success in all forms is abundant and available to all. (A Gift to My Children) — Jim Rogers

Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. — Walter Isaacson

He'd come to appreciate that writers were just like everyone else, except when they were more so. It sometimes seemed that they'd been able to develop their gifts thanks to a lack of inhibition, an inner permission to feel and react, that made them seem self-absorbed and insensitive to the existence of anyone else. — Jonathan Galassi

He shifted his body off of mine and tuckled me close against his warmth. I laid my head on his chest and listened to the comforting sound of his beating heart. Noah ran his hand through my hair. I'm glad you told me. This needs to be right for you and i'll wait, for as long as you need. — Katie McGarry

today's pain is yesterdays latent gain we did not take — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs. — Abdolkarim Soroush

Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted. — Tacitus

You couldn't help yourself," he said.
"Actually, I couldn't," she said. "If I hadn't the opportunity - if you hadn't been so shockingly understanding - and tempting - "
"I worked damned hard at that. The tempting part. I wasn't sure you were paying attention."
"Apparently, I was doing little else but. — Loretta Chase

In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that which it is. Thus it tells the truth about itself; its language ceases to be that of deception, ignorance, and submission. Fiction calls the facts by their name and their reign collapses; fiction subverts everyday experience and shows it to be mutilated and false. — Herbert Marcuse

I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me. — Georges St-Pierre

I love going to work. I love being on-set everyday. It feeds me; it's exciting. — Dominic Monaghan

I am, O Anxious One. Don't you hear my voice
surging forth with all my earthly feelings?
They yearn so high, that they have sprouted wings
and whitely fly in circles round your face.
My soul, dressed in silence, rises up
and stands alone before you: can't you see?
don't you know that my prayer is growing ripe
upon your vision as upon a tree?
If you are the dreamer, I am what you dream.
But when you want to wake, I am your wish,
and I grow strong with all magnificence
and turn myself into a star's vast silence
above the strange and distant city, Time. — Rainer Maria Rilke