Best 284 quotes in «flight quotes» category

In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.

In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come back.

In the South Pacific, because of their size, mosquitoes are required to file flight plans.

I remember after 9/11, I started - I was working quite a bit in Vancouver. And then I realized I would go to catch my flight, and it would take me like 20 minutes to get cleared to fly, like, every time. I'm like, what is going on?

I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took flight, the earth exploding... and my only thought was that I wanted you to see them, too.

I tell ya when I fly, I don't get no respect. I took one of those cheap flights, no frills. I finished eatin' and had to do the dishes.

I still have my [flight] license and I can still pass a flight physical.

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.

It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.

It is not a bad sport, but there's no place to go.

It is not unreasonable to look upon Concorde as a miracle.

It was a love of perpetual flight.

It’s like flight, you’re flying… When you’re hitting something that’s turning you on, you get goose bumps. It’s a rush. It’s very exciting and that’s what I’m hoping to do to the audience.

It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don't spin it out too long long breath he breath long life, soaring high, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high in the effulgence symbolistic, high, of the ethereal bosom, high, of the high vast irradiation everywhere all soaring all around about the all, the endlessnessnessness.

It's the most exciting thing you have ever done with your pants on!

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

I was shooting Beyond Redemption, I started shooting American Horror Story, so I was going back and forth between Northern California and LA. That was not bad at all - that flight is like getting on the subway, it's nothing. And then during rehearsals.

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.

Lean forward into your life... catch the best bits and the finest wind. Just tip your feathers in flight a wee bit and see how dramatically that small lean can change your life.

[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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Private flights back home, no stop-over

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Simplicate, and add lightness!

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.

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.

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