Aloft Quotes

63 quotes by 57 authors

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are some remarkable parallels between basketball and politics. Michael Jordan has already mastered the skill most needed for political success: how to stay aloft… — Margaret Thatcher
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own… — John Dryden
Rama for you should mean the Path He trod, the ideal He held aloft, and the Ordinance He laid down. They are eternal and timeless. — Sathya Sai Baba
The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into it the sweet… — Paul Brunton
Here above the farms and ranches of the Great Plains aviation lives up to the promise that inspired dreamers through the ages. Here you are… — Stephen Coonts
Someone once told me that children are like kites. You struggle just to get them in the air; they crash; you add a longer tail.… — Charmian Carr
Most restaurants fail. The sad ones are stillborn. The mad ones flourish within the bustle and excitement of fame, notoriety, the thrill of the new.… — Sam Sifton
After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not… — D. H. Lawrence
If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,--… — Paul Revere
If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not :… — Thomas Carlyle
There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable, a creature whose brain and… — Ernest K. Gann
As far as i am concerned, i am in the knowledge that death can never extinguish the torch which i have lit in Ghana and… — Kwame Nkrumah
If some day they take the radio station away from us, if they close down our newspaper, if they donâ€™t let us speak, if they… — Oscar Romero
The rockets... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft. — Hermann Oberth
King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see how God in… — William Shakespeare
The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each… — Joseph Roth
May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face, and the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with… — George Jung
Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. The photographs show the… — Lewis Thomas

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