Flight Quotes - Page 36

• A new helicopter service called Gotham Air is now offering users cheap flights from Manhattan to JFK or Newark airports that start at just $99. If there's two words I trust together in the same sentence, it's 'cheap' and 'helicopter.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Airports, Offering, Two

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• Every acceptance of suffering is an acceptance of that which exists. The denial of every form of suffering can result in a flight from reality in which contact with reality becomes ever thinner, ever more fragmentary. It is impossible to remove oneself totally from suffering, unless one removes oneself from life itself, no longer enters into relationships, makes oneself invulnerable.

  Dorothee Solle

  Acceptance, Reality, Suffering

  Dorothee Sölle (1975). “Suffering”, Fortress Press

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• Let brisker youths their active nerves prepare
  Fit their light silken wings and skim the buxom air.

  Richard Owen Cambridge

  Light, Air, Wings

  Richard Owen Cambridge (1751). “The Scribleriad: An Heroic Poem. In Six Books”

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• Free, free! what a glorious ring to the word. Free! the bitter heart-struggle was over. Free! the soul could go out to heaven and to God with no chains to clog its flight or pull it down. Free! the earth wore a brighter look, and the very stars seemed to sing with joy. Yes, free! free by the laws of man and the smile of God-and Heaven bless them who made me so!

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Stars, Struggle, Heart

  Elizabeth Keckley (2016). “Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House”, p.28, Enhanced Media Publishing

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

  Annie Fellows Johnston

  Wings, Sixteen, Youth

  Annie Fellows Johnston (1914). “Mary Ware: The Little Colonel's Chum”, p.34, Pelican Publishing

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• Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.

  John Lanchester

  Taken, Class, Would Be

  John Lanchester (2012). “Capital”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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• I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the plane. It had seven or eight songs in it. After that, I'm not writing any more songs on notebooks - and I keep my Blackberry close!

  Estelle

  Notebook, Song, Crazy

  "How Estelle headed to the US and scored her first No. 1". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. June 5, 2008.

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• Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space Flight, Vision, Exploration

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• One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space, Long, Radiation

  "American Space Exploration Leadership — Why and How" by Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• We hail the return of the day of thy birth,
  Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans
  Where men from the farthest dominions of earth
  Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions;
  Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right,
  Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight;
  Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be
  An asylum for all in the Land of the Free.

  Abraham Coles

  Freedom, Father, Ocean

  Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”

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• I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself - constitutes the most daunting barrier for most people with physical impairments, because it, even more than flights of steps or elevators without braille, prevents them from participating fully in the ordinary world, where most of life's satisfactions dwell.

  Nancy Mairs

  Self, Ordinary World, People

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• You cannot stay the shell in its flight; after it has left the mortar, it goes on to its mark, and there explodes, dealing destruction all around. Just as little can you stay the consequences of a sin after it has been committed. You may repent of it, you may even be forgiven for it, but still it goes on its deadly and desolating way. It has passed entirely beyond your reach; once done, it cannot be undone.

  William Mackergo Taylor

  Done, Shells, Goes On

  William Mackergo Taylor (1879). “Moses the Law-giver”

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• Meditation ... must be power of will and strength of attention, being like a flight to great heights wherein wings must be plied hard though joyfully.

  James Vila Blake

  Wings, Meditation, Attention

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

  Sergey Biryuzov

  Country, Enemy, Rockets

  "Military Deception and Strategic Surprise". Book by John Gooch, Amos Perlmutter, 1982.

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• Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our hearts. Like the poet's image of a church bell that reveals its latent music only when struck, or a dragonfly that flames forth its beauty only in flight, so does the content of a human heart lie buried until action calls it forth. The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is and knowing that a thing is not.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Lying, Believe, Heart

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• By wine eating cares are put to flight.
  [Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]

  Horace

  Wine, Care, Eating

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• Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Time, Overcoming, Allies

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.265

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• Almost all of my jobs have been on locations. And I think you can be that person who says, 'I have a job that forces me to travel and I'm just going to go ahead and do it and pray for my next flight home.' Or 'this is where I am, this is my life, let me see a part of this world I now live in.'

  Erin Cummings

  Jobs, Home, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Once public opinion is convinced that the increase in the quantity of money will continue and never come to an end, and that consequently the prices of all commodities will not cease to rise, everybody becomes eager to buy as much as possible and restrict his cash holdings to minimum size... If the credit expansion is not stopped in time, the boom turns to crack-up boom: the flight into real values begins, and the whole monetary system founders.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Real, Public Opinion, Cracks

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• North and south must also adopt measures to arrest the growing phenomenon of illegal capital flight and the repatriation of illicit wealth siphoned abroad by corrupt political leaders and their collaborators back to their countries of origin.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  Country, Political, Leader

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• As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend.

  Walter Benjamin

  Dark, Owl, Doe

  Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt (1968). “Illuminations”, Schocken Books Incorporated

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• The wind? I am the wind. The sea and the moon? I am the sea and the moon. Tears, pain, love, bird-flights? I am all of them. I dance what I am. Sin, prayer, flight, the light that never was on land or sea? I dance what I am.

  Isadora Duncan

  Prayer, Pain, Moon

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• Love is like a butterfly
  As soft and gentle as a sigh
  The multicolored moods of love are like its satin wings
  Love makes your heart feel strange inside
  It flutters like soft wings in flight
  Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.

  Dolly Parton

  Heart, Butterfly, Love Is

  Song: Love Is Like A Butterfly

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• The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything youve ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.

  Jim Lovell

  Stars, Moon, White

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• Also, in the category of 'obvious but still shocking,' an animal called a 'killer whale' killed someone who was trying to play with it. Now, no one knows exactly what enraged the whale, but earlier in the week, it had been thrown off a flight by Southwest Airlines.

  Bill Maher

  Animal, Whales, Play

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