Flight Quotes

927 Flight quotes by 688 unique authors

By now, a million pedal strokes have etched the muscles in my legs with a single purpose: to power the crank and move the bicycle… — Frosty Wooldridge
I call it "pedal magic" and only those who ride know the utter ecstasy of bicycling. Pressing a pedal toward Earth gives flight to my… — Frosty Wooldridge
The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our intellect truly praying… — Evagrius Ponticus
Construction of an aerial vehicle which can carry even a single man . . . requires the discovery of some new metal or force. Even… — Simon Newcomb
While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird… — Friedrich Nietzsche
My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I… — William Shakespeare
My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight. — Charles Dickens
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which… — Arthur Koestler
How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of… — William Cowper
To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise. — John Milton
Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky. — Ursula K. Le Guin
I dug it, New York City, all-the streets and the snows and the starving and the five-flight walkups and sleeping in rooms with ten people.… — Bob Dylan
Meditation is the straight flight of the mind to the Kingdom of Heaven present in the heart of everyone. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Our training pushes us to develop a new set of instincts: instead of reacting to danger with a fight-or-flight adrenaline rush, we're trained to respond… — Chris Hadfield
Since Yuri Gagarin and Al Shepard's epoch flights in 1961, all space missions have been flown only under large, expensive government efforts. By contrast, our… — Burt Rutan
There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97. — Bruce Schneier
The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent… — Arlen Specter
Enabling people to make and receive phone calls during flight demonstrated the flexibility of a high-speed connectivity system. We allowed our guests to make calls… — Christopher Peterson
The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the… — Thomas Aquinas

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