Derail Quotes
Sharp lines about plans, careers, and trains going off course
This page gathers quotes that use "derail" in its many senses, from literal train accidents to careers and political plans knocked off course. See related lines under Back Quotes for more reflections on setbacks.
We know that, too often, oil and other hazardous materials are shipped across the country on aging tankers. Too many communities have seen what happens when trains derail and in some cases catch fire.
You'd prefer to fight somebody that you really would rather derail their whole career.
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They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.
In 2002 and 2003, the Bush administration decided against bombing Zarqawi's camp in northern Iraq because it might derail plans to depose Saddam Hussein. By focusing on Zarqawi in his speech at the United Nations, Secretary of State Colin Powell...
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By every measure, John Kennedy's sex life was compulsive and reckless. At one level, it had clear public consequences. Knowledge of Kennedy's behavior gave FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover absolute job security, as well as the potential power to derail...
You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This idea that we can't pass an immigration law until we hit some imaginary security target is just a...
Iraq is the central battleground in the war on terror. The terrorists certainly know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts there. They know that a free and democratic...
The terrorists know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts. They understand that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests.
Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do the math and calculate return on investment properly. The issues are communication and understanding. All of what typically would've been called the 'soft stuff.'...
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Emotions are one of the main things that derail communication. Once people get upset at one another, rational thinking goes out of the window.
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Some speakers describe physical derailments involving hazardous cargo, while others use the word to talk about ambition, rivalry, or foreign policy decisions gone sideways. Browse Against Quotes for related themes of resistance.
