Famous quotes containing the words train and/or disaster:
“The trouble about soldiers in Mr. Siegfried Sassoon’s poetry ... is that they are the kind of people who in a railroad train have to travel with their backs to the engine. Peace can have but few corners softly padded enough for such sensitives.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“From disaster good fortune comes, and in good fortune lurks disaster.”
—Chinese proverb.