Flight Quotes - Page 29

• [What for] was the first question he asked about any activity proposed to him - and nothing would make him act, if he found no valid answer. He flew through the days of his summer month like a rocket, but if one stopped him in mid-flight, he could always name the purpose of his every random moment. Two things were impossible to him: to stand still or to move aimlessly.

  Ayn Rand

  Summer, Moving, Names

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.71, Hamilton Books

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• The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration.

  Graham Hawkes

  Ocean, Technology, Games

  "Winged sub almost ready to go very deep" by Tom Stienstra, www.sfgate.com. October 12, 2008.

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• On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times they seem completely different elements, as though the body were only a home with which the mind has been associated but by no means bound. Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses. You see without assistance from the eyes, over distances beyond the visual horizon. There are moments when existence appears independent even of the mind. The importance of physical desire and immediate surroundings is submerged in the apprehension of universal values.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Distance, Home, Eye

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• In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center on a research journey to circle the moon. This will involve known risks of great magnitude and probable risks which have not been foreseen. Apollo 8 has 5,600,000 parts and 1.5 million systems, subsystems and assemblies. With 99.9 percent reliability, we could expect 5,600 defects. Hence the striving for perfection and the use of redundancy which characterize the Apollo program.

  Jerome F. Lederer

  Moon, Journey, Circles

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• Columbus did not know where he was going, how far it was, nor where he had been after his return. With Apollo, there is no such lack of information. Nevertheless, the flight will involve risks of great magnitude and probably risks that have not been foreseen.

  Jerome F. Lederer

  Risk, Apollo, Information

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

  Stella Young

  Stairs, Made, Ramp

  "I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much". TED conference, www.ted.com. April 2014.

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• We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as he analyzed the data that demonstrated a way to prevent polio?

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Morning, Brother, Journey

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• The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.

  Colum McCann

  Reason, Enough, Oneself

  Colum McCann (2013). “TransAtlantic: A Novel”, p.31, Random House

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• It is hot in Tokyo, it’s humid, I’m tired, all of these backs are in front of you, I’m not going to make the team anyway so screw it. I remember going back and I called down to the desk. I was asking about some flights out of there.

  Terrell Davis

  Team, Tired, Hot

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• If a quote of two individuals looks identical or almost similar to make it difficult to know as who said it first to be Mr. Right, then it is perhaps sensible to give credit for the same to one who travels in life light by choice and not compulsions than other who is too eager to board on a success flight.

  Anuj

  Two, Mr Right, Light

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• My investigation of movement has led me to choices which vary from traditional norms. My dancers and I see the rehearsal as a laboratory for testing scientific principles on the body. We invent action ideas which we think are archetypal, noticeable, understandable. The outcome is a mixture of slam dancing, exquisite and amazing human flight and a wild action sport which captures kids, older people and the general public’s hearts and minds and bodies.

  Elizabeth Streb

  Sports, Kids, Heart

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• Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Song, Wings, Singing

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 48

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• Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the body sanctified, and raises man to the throne of God.

  Athenaeus

  Heart, Men, Mind

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• You beat a woman and drag her down a flight of stairs.

  Dale Hansen

  Beats, Stairs, Drag

  "Did Michael Sam Take A 'Huge Risk' To Come Out Before The Draft?". "Tell Me More", www.npr.org. February 14, 2014.

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• Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you look outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature.

  Frank Herbert

  Self, Use, Sticks

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• It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor. Man is too quick at forming conclusions. Let him but indistinctly see a thing, or even be undecided as to whether he does actually see it and he will then and there set himself to theorizing, and build immense castles of conjecture on a foundation, of whose existence he is by no means certain.

  Edward E. Barnard

  Mean, Men, Clouds

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• Behold, I have reached the peak of the mountain and my spirit has taken flight in the heavens of freedom and liberation. I have gone far, far away, O children of my mother; the hills beyond the mists are now hidden from my view, the last traces of the valleys have been flooded by the ocean of serenity, and the paths and trails have been erased by the hand of oblivion. The roar of ocean waves has faded. I no longer hear anything but the anthem of eternity, which harmonizes with the spirit.

  Khalil Gibran

  Mother, Children, Ocean

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• Fear is like a little garden spider that makes us jump back or the poor lost bee on the steering wheel that we blame for our automobile wreck. The problem in fear is our response - the way we treat animals or insects that frighten us. . . . Fear is also the universal scapegoat we blame when we take flight from intimacy or shrink up inside ourselves in a thousand little ways.

  Dan Millman

  Fear, Animal, Garden

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• The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.

  E. B. White

  Running, People, Politics

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.165, Cornell University Press

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• Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Doe, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.98, A&C Black

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• At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Military, Flying, Historical

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• How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of the flowers—that deep sigh with which they seem to waken from sleep; the first dew, untouched even by the light foot of the early hare; the first chirping of the rousing birds, as if eager to begin song and flight; all is redolent of the strength given by rest, and the joy of conscious life.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Beautiful, Song, Morning

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1833). “The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c”, p.170

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• 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.

  Charles Dickens

  Toil, Genius, Easy

  Charles Dickens, Jenny Hartley (2012). “The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens”, p.71, Oxford University Press

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• Sleep ... peace of the soul, who puttest care to flight.

  Ovid

  Sleep, Soul, Care

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• 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.

  Erica Jong

  Vienna, Six, Married

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 01, 2015

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