Air travel Quote by Wendell Willkie Download Open image “There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.” — Wendell Willkie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Air travel Airplane Airplanes and flying Aviation Flight Flying Funny Great aviation Inspirational Love World World is small
There is a world beyond ours, a world that is far away, nearby and invisible. — Maria Sabina Copy Share Image
“All distances in time and space are shrinking. […] Yet the frantic abolition of all distances brings no nearness; for nearness does not consist… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here. — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
“It is often said that there are very few places left on earth that have yet to be discovered. But those who say this… — Mark Miodownik Copy Share Image
Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
If you do not have the concept of distance, you may reach an unreachable place! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion. . .… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one. — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
If the Wright brother were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs. — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
There's another problem," Percy said. "I'm not good with air travel. It's dangerous for a son of Neptune." "You'll have to risk it...and so… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I don't mind flying. I always pass out before the plane leaves the ground. — Naomi Campbell Copy Share Image
Funny, isn't it? The airlines go to all that trouble to keep you from taking a gun on board, then they just hand you… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where we now… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
Airline food is not intended for human consumption. It's intended as a form of in-flight entertainment, wherein the object is to guess what it… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
The captain has just turned on the fasten-seat-belt-sign. He didn't mean to, but the joint he was smoking fell in his lap, and when… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
A century ago the Spanish flu confounded scientists and devastated whole regions, but while today's society has air travel and an enormous, heterogeneous population,… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
Air travel efficiency would improve if more travelers started going to less popular places. — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image