He was good-natured to a degree of weakness, even to tears, upon the slightest occasions. Exceedingly timorous, both personally an...d politically, dreading the least innovation, and keeping, with a scrupulous timidity, in the beaten track of business as having the safest bottom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves. I had not lived... there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct. It is true, I fear, that others may have fallen into it, and so helped to keep it open.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls o...n the rails.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 trai...n off the track and I never lost a passenger.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I believe very profoundly in an over-ruling Providence, and I do not fear that any real plans can be thrown off the track. It may ...not be intended that I shall be President--but that would not break my heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As Anna Freud remarked, the toddler who wanders off into some other aisle, feels lost, and screams anxiously for his mother never ...says "I got lost," but accusingly says "You lost me!" It is a rare mother who agrees that she lost him! she expects her child to stay with her; in her experience it is the child who has lost track of the mother, while in the child's experience it is the mother who has lost track of him. Each view is entirely correct from the perspective of the individual who holds it .LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I've kinda lo...st track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off--you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »