Passenger Quotes

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
Aldous Huxley

Soul, Cannot, Fate

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

Lost, Off, Train

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
Samuel Johnson

Travel, May, Him

I confess I've never felt like a passenger.
Roger Waters

The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.
Marilyn vos Savant

End, Person, Away

I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this week did I stumble across the rightful winner: it's the sound of a baggage carousel coming to a grinding halt, having reunited every passenger on your flight with their luggage, except for you.
Sloane Crosley

Winner, Used, Week

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
Diane Ackerman

An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.
Leon Panetta

Control, Nation, Group

When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
Quincy Jones

Accident, Terrible

I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.
Princess Margaret

Life, Becoming, Dread

I never lost a passenger.
Harriet Tubman

I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America.
Corrine Brown

Important, Someone, America

All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the public. The officer assisting the passenger never sees the image, and the officer viewing the image never interacts with the passenger. The imaging technology that we use cannot store, export, print or transmit images.
Janet Napolitano

Technology, Cannot, Public

I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.
Michael Gambon

Fear, Live, Play

Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf.
Jan Schakowsky

Light, Economy, Simply

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

Lost, Off, Train

It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft.
Dave Reichert

Sense, Used, Known

We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive.
Corrine Brown

Money, System, Needs

Just because you're upfront with someone doesn't mean you're an honest person; you might just be someone in the passenger seat.
Brian Celio

Someone, Person, Mean

I am not a passenger in anything I do.
Derek Fisher

About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks.
Sherwood Boehlert

Daily, Light, Used

The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.
John Pistole

Technology, Hurt, Down

We put people of concern on the watch list or the no-fly list, so we have a number of layers of security beyond the airport checkpoint. We gather as much information about a passenger as the law allows without profiling.
John Pistole

Law, Put, Security

Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.
Niki Lauda

Good, Long, Reason

They can argue whatever they want. The problem is, when you interview every passenger, during the interviews you are looking for - you profile - you do profiling, to find the suspicious ones and put them out from the rest of the passengers.
Isaac Yeffet

Find, Problem, Put

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.
Bill Lipinski

Money, Long, Beyond

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