Best 284 quotes in «flight quotes» category

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

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

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.

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?

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

Private flights back home, no stop-over

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

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.

Simplicate, and add lightness!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The never-ending flight Of future days.

The happy man does not notice the flight of time.

The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

They say it's better than sex. It's so much better. It's amazing.

the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than the parting from close friends and familiar places. It is also the death of the person one has become in a particular context, and every refugee must be his or her own midwife at the painful process of rebirth.

Those interested in celestial navigation are advised to first obtain a rudimentary knowledge of integral calculus, phlebotomy, astral physics and related subjects. The use of liquor is strictly forbidden on interplanetary flights.

They tryna shoot down my flight before it lands

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

Those who fled will fight another time.

To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible.

Today, the U.S. fleet has shrunk to just four main carriers, which control 80 percent-plus of the U.S. market. No wonder passengers are at the mercy of the major airlines: flights jam-packed, routes slashed, service to smaller airports dumped.

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.

Through you, we feel as giants, once again.

True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.

Tom is back on a flight at 6:15 P.M. That is 6:15. Do you get it? Not 6:00 P.M. but 6:15 P.M. And do you know how many minutes that is? I do. I have also become a Time Lord.