Commuting Quotes

• For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  People, Suffering, Would Be

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• It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.

  Ben Bernanke

  Cost, Frustrating, Raises

  "Diane Sawyer Says 'That Republicans See Ben Bernanke As A Villain'". "ABC World News" with Diane Sawyer, www.newsbusters.org. March 28, 2012.

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• Mantengo mi programa de desplazamientos semanales desde Oregón a Washington, D.C., para poder dedicar los fines de semana y los días que no estamos en periodo de sesiones a viajar a las comunidades de todo mi distrito.

  Greg Walden

  Fin de semana, Oregón, Comunidad

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• I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.

  Diane Cilento

  Estúpido, Años, Dos

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• El automóvil, a la vez causa y efecto de esta descentralización, se adapta perfectamente a nuestro vasto paisaje y a nuestras pautas de desplazamiento, generalmente confusas y contrarias.

  Brock Yates

  Confused, Confusion, Car

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• I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die.

  George Ryan

  Errors, Guilt, Death Penalty

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• La actividad diaria que más contribuye a la felicidad es cenar con amigos. La actividad diaria que más merma la felicidad es ir al trabajo. Come más. Desplázate menos.

  David Brooks

  Inspiración, Graduación, Actividades diarias

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• After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Fire, Office, Woods

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• As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.'

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Different, Arguing, Driving

  Tom Vanderbilt (2008). “Traffic”, p.141, Vintage

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• We're taught that domestic life is not a "serious" political topic, like war and peace, but the fact is that we spend most of our lives doing everyday things: at the dinner table, in the kitchen, washing dishes, grocery-shopping, commuting. These things make up the fabric of our lives.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  War, Shopping, Everyday Things

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• The thing about commuting internationally is that you have to be a lawyer or an airline steward to do it successfully.

  Joan Juliet Buck

  Lawyer, Stewards, Airline

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was commuting three to four hours a day, I had jobs for much of it. But I was always involved in going to some ensemble someplace. Taking my lessons at the local Jewish community center on Staten Island.

  Jon Gordon

  Jobs, Islands, Community

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• [Commuting by bicycle is] an absolutely essential part of my day. It's mind-clearing, invigorating. I get to go out and pedal through the countryside in the early morning hours, and see life come back and rejuvenate every day as the sun is coming out.

  James L. Jones

  Morning, Cycling, Mind

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• To me the biggest waste of time is commuting. First, there is no place that is less than a two-hour commute from New York. You can be half a mile outside of the city limits; you're two hours away by car. I don't care how close they tell you it is. "Oh, it's only thirty miles." Thirty miles? At 8:30 in the morning, thirty miles outside New York, you might as well be starting out in Omaha.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Morning, New York, Cities

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• Sigue prevaleciendo una visión anticuada de que un estilo de vida bajo en carbono requiere un inmenso sufrimiento y sacrificio personal. En mi opinión, nada más lejos de la realidad. Todas las pruebas demuestran que las personas que no conducen, no vuelan en avión, compran en su localidad, cultivan sus propios alimentos y conocen a otros miembros de su comunidad tienen una calidad de vida muy superior a la de sus compatriotas que aún persisten en hacer el sacrificio supremo de malgastar sus vidas desplazándose al trabajo en coche.

  Mark Lynas

  Sacrifice, Views, People

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• No conduzco a menudo, porque el aparcamiento lo hace demasiado molesto. Y nunca podría volver a desplazarme ni nada. Me hartaría.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Molestia, Demasiado, Federales

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.

  Randeep Hooda

  Horse, Dna, Car

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• As long as children are still getting kicked out of their homes by parents, getting bullied, commuting suicide, et cetera. it's definitely still worth talking about.

  Rayvon Owen

  Suicidio, Niños, Hogar

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 10, 2016.

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• In such novels as This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald depicts the spirit of the hour which is usually about 4 a.m. His suave young men, always commuting between Princeton and The Plaza in Stutz Bearcats never sat still for long. It was too uncomfortable, with a large flask in the hip pocket.

  Richard Armour

  Art, Men, Long

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• Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Rome, London, Pavement

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• Our capitol punishment system is haunted by the demon of error- error in determining guilt, error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die... The legislation couldn't reform it. Lawmakers won't repeal it. I won't stand for it. I had to act... I am commuting the sentences of all death row inmates.

  George Ryan

  Animal, Errors, Punishment

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• Sergey and I founded Google because we're super optimisitc about the potential for technology to make the world a better place. Think about how many people are underserved by transportation today, like those with disabilities, and how self driving cars will transform their lives. Or the wasted time you sit in your car every day commuting to and from work. Or the deaths and injuries that could be avoided.

  Larry Page

  Optimistic, Technology, Thinking

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• No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.

  Emily Oster

  Fighting, People, Doe

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