Best 284 quotes in «flight quotes» category

Living an environmentally responsible lifestyle can seem like a Scrooge-like list of don'ts. Don't take that flight, don't buy that car, don't eat those blueberries flown in from somewhere far-flung.

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace.

Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.

Mistakes are inevitable in aviation, especially when one is still learning new things. The trick is to not make the mistake that will kill you.

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight or flight thing.

Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

My wife will tell you that I'm very particular and it's annoying for other people. I eat the same thing every day. I go to the gym at the same time every day. I go to L.A. all the time, so I take that same 9:30 flight. I will not take another one.

My landlord lives in the flat at the bottom of the stairs. I rent a studio flat from him, and live at the top of the staircase. There are two more flights of stairs and four more flats, but it’s me he is obsessed with.

No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp.

My leadership began to take flight when I allowed myself to press people to change-whether they thanked me or cursed me.

On a flight of emotion there's wonder and bliss, but beware of a landing that may go amiss.

Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.

Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained.

On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why doesn't the plane just become a boat?

Other factors affecting the '109 as a combat plane include the small cramped cockpit. This is quite a tiring working environment, although the view out (in flight) is better than you might expect; the profuseion of canopy struts is not particularly a problem. In addition to the above the small cockpit makes you feel more a part of the aeroplane.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.

ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.

Private flights back home, no stop-over

She had made the choice for him - in a moment of flight and panic, but she had made it - not realizing that her Jace would rather die than be like this, and that she'd been not so much saving his life as damning him to an existence he would despise.

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future.

Simplicate, and add lightness!

Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying.

The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.

Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality.

The flight experience itself is incredible. It's addictive. It's transcendent. It is a view of the grand plan of all things that is simply unforgettable.

The bottom line is, if somebody doesn't go through proper security screening, they're not going to go on the flight.

The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.

The flight I'm most excited about is the one that takes me back to Northern Ireland to visit family and friends.

The happy man does not notice the flight of time.

The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.

The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

The fortress inspired a tremendous confidence. It was the only propeller driven aircraft I have flown that was completely viceless; there were no undesirable flight characteristics. The directional stability was excellent and, properly trimmed, the B-17 could be taken off, landed and banked without change of trim.

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.

The never-ending flight Of future days.

The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.

The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

There is no excuse for an airplane unless it will fly fast!

The problem of destroying enemy rockets in flight has been successfully solved in our country.

There is always great beauty, not of images, feeling or thought. Beauty is neither thought nor feeling; it has nothing whatsoever to do with emotion or sentiment. There is fear. Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear? It is there and there is no escape from it, no evasion possible. There, at that actual moment, there is total attention at the moment of danger, physical or psychological.

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh.

The U.S. must immediately stop all flights from EBOLA infected countries or the plague will start and spread inside our borders. Act fast!

The sin of respectable people reveals itself in flight from responsibility.