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“From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hinduism religion.”

Ideas Philosophy Seems Spiritual Atheism Lows Discovery Mythology Flight Buddhist Hinduism Echoes Idolatry Agnosticism Vedanta Hindu Religion

Book:Essentials of Hinduism

Source: Essentials of Hinduism

“They mention that it's a nonstop flight. Well, I must say I don't care for that sort of thing. Call me old fashioned, but I insist that my flight stop. Preferably at an airport.”

Wells Care Food Humorous Don't Care Flight I Don't Care Call Me Old Fashioned Airports Airline Air Travel

Book:Napalm & Silly Putty

Source: Napalm & Silly Putty

“People say there's delays on flights. Delays, really? New York to California in five hours, that used to take 30 years, a bunch of people used to die on the way there, have a baby, you would end up with a whole different group of people by the time you got there. Now you watch a movie and [go to the toilet] and you're home.”

People Way Inspirational Years Different Ends Whole Home Funny Used Dies Hours Watches Five Groups New York Baby Travel Silly Bunch Flight California Funny Travel Delay Toilets

Author:Louis C. K.

“People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound. They're like, 'It was the worst day of my life. We didn't board for 20 minutes and they made us sit there on the runway for 40 minutes.' Oh really? What happened next? Did you fly in the air, incredibly, like a bird? Did you partake in the miracle of human flight you non-contributing zero?'”

“Use humility to make the enemy haughty. Tire them by flight. Cause division among them. When they are unprepared, attack and make your move when they do not expect it.”

War Use Moving Causes Enemy Military Humility Flight Division Tire Unprepared Haughty Make Your Move

Author:Sun Tzu

“The physical symptoms of fight or flight are what the human body has learned over thousands of years to operate efficiently and at the highest level...anxiety is a cognitive interpretation of that physical response.”

Years Humans Body Light Fighting Levels Achievement Anxiety Highest Response Flight Interpretation Symptoms Human Body Cognitive

Author:John Eliot

“When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.”

Men Soul Country Light Born Flight Young Man

Author:James Joyce

“In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.”

“Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.”

Men Want Ideas Ends Reason Done Science Political President Successful Moon Program Scientist Dollars Response Decades Billions Objectives Flight Pigs Apollo Fiasco President Kennedy Bay Of Pigs

Author:Carl Sagan

“A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.”

Eye Winning Chance Cities New York Flight Magazines Contracts Chicago New York City Crash Auditions Casting Sofas

Author:Ted Allen

“Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.”

Ends Dream Action Source Meetings Flight

Book:Out of silence: selected poems

Source: Out of silence: selected poems

“The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.”

Turns Next Clear Flight Phrases Fancy Elegant Elegance Beans Rhetorical

Author:Jeff Greenfield

“On a flight of emotion there's wonder and bliss, but beware of a landing that may go amiss.”

May Emotion Wonder Flight Bliss Landing

Author:Wes Fesler

“How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life.”

Life Lasts Loss Kissing Spring Winter Flight Sunset Fragile Butterfly Dazzling Crimson

Book:Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel

Source: Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel

“And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!”

“And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.”

World Time Loneliness Lonely Flight Horns Feeling Lonely

Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol X: Later Article: Uncollected Articles, Reviews, and Radio Broadcasts Written After 1900

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol X: Later Article: Uncollected Articles, Reviews, and Radio Broadcasts Written After 1900

“The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore...unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible...it is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors...to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown.”

Reason Seems Spirit Impossible Sea Dangerous Victory Terrible Exercise Obstacles Storm Flight Conquer Sufficient Aviation Iron Endeavor Daring Mediocre Iron Will Magellan

Author:Ferdinand Magellan

“So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.”

Men Giving Littles Lasts Science Poor Millions Sky Mankind Rocks Moon Office Twenties Dollars Billions Miles Flight Thirty Aviation Chemicals Quarters Metals Agony Magnificent Wire

Author:Russell Baker

“The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds - how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives - and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!”

Source: The Writings of John Burroughs: Birds and poets, with other papers

“And many kinds of creatures must have died, Unable to plant out new sprouts of life. For whatever you see that lives and breathes and thrives Has been, from the very beginning, guarded, saved By it's trickery for its swiftness or brute strength. And many have been entrusted to our care, Commended by their usefulness to us. For instance, strength supports a savage lion; Foxes rely on their cunning; deer their flight.”

Life Kind Has Beens Care Science Death Support Creatures Died Plant Breathe Saved Flight Instance Rely Thrive Lions Savages Foxes Cunning Brutes Usefulness Deer Guarded Sprouts Trickery Swiftness

Author:Lucretius

“It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond the limits of the atmosphere and left to broadcast scientific information back to the Earth. A little later, manned rockets will be able to make similar flights with sufficient excess power to break the orbit and return to Earth. (1945) [Predicting communications satellites.]”

Years Littles Able Earth Science Left Break Information Communication Return Limits Radio Flight Atmosphere Sufficient Controlled Excess Rockets Orbit Satellites Predicting

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.”

Religion Atheism Building Moon Flight Science And Religion Science Religion

Author:Victor J. Stenger

“Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.”

Doe Art Said Science Accounts Flight All Time Artistic Poetry Is Masterpiece Ladders Corrections Fertile Correcting

Author:Victor Hugo

“He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her dark eyes gleaming with pity and with sympathy - those two qualities which may turn so rapidly and so naturally to love.”

World May Two Eye Turns Dark Quality Compassion Strange Leaving Pity Flight Ties Spokes Valleys End Of The World Dreary Strange World Dark Eyes

Book:The Valley of Fear

Source: The Valley of Fear

“Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow wings), the chesty preening of redbirds and bluebirds, the blackbird with the red-tipped wings like startling epaulets.”

Looks Sun Bird Red Wings Flight Grieving Yellow Bluebird Canaries Blackbirds Yellow Sun

Author:Terry Kay

“A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams and nightmares upon facts. ... What's inside is every fairy-tale monster, a brutal ogre, a bloodthirsty werewolf, an elegant vampire, a scheming devil, a bullying giant, a sneering troll, or maybe just an abusive stepfather.”

“From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today.”

Today Certain Known Greater Military Performances Speed Flight Terrific Ufo Aircraft

Author:Frank Herman Schofield

“Between the dusk of a summer night And the dawn of a summer day, We caught at a mood as it passed in flight, And we bade it stoop and stay. And what with the dawn of night began With the dusk of day was done; For that is the way of woman and man, When a hazard has made them one. Arc upon arc, from shade to shine, The World went thundering free; And what was his errand but hers and mine - The lords of him, I and she? O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one.”

Men World Way Made Done Earth Joy Night Dies Lord Sun Mines Summer Men And Women Longing Shining Caught Mood Flight Dawn Shade July Hazards Arcs Dusk Stoops Errands Summer Days Summer Nights Earth And Sun

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“When you awaken in the morning's hush I am the swift uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soft stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry; I am not there, I did not die.”

“Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future.”

Ifs Knows Want Destiny Flight Our Future Your Future Arrows

Book:Silk

Source: Silk

“I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.”

Life Air Sad Wings Glad Flight No Regrets

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“A personal note to the Founding Fathers: We're sorry. We blew it. You made it possible for us to live free and we blew it. We've given up nearly every personal liberty in the name of a false sense of security sold to the masses by the same type of maniacal government about which you warned us and against which you fought so bravely. We now have to ask permission to take a leak on an airline flight. We never deserved you.”

“The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the turmoil of real life, was perhaps quite appropriate at an earlier stage of science; but in today's world it is a luxury we cannot afford.”

World Real Problem Today Science Stage Members Research Profession Real Life Flight Luxury Appropriate Isolated Turmoil Today's World

Book:The Scientific Imagination: With a New Introduction

Source: The Scientific Imagination: With a New Introduction

“[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected.”

Real Problem Science Purpose Imagination Known Research Flight Unexpected Overlooked

Author:Hugh Latimer Dryden

“I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds.”

Stills Car Deeds Flight Electric Good Deeds Jet Electric Car Private Jet

Author:George Clooney

“The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems as often attendant upon reality as being in company is attendant upon the flight from reality.”

Men Way Moments Reality Seems Suffering Company Destiny Fate Flight Lone

Book:Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties

Source: Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties

“Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve.”

Ifs May Art War Faces Achieve Military Position Soldier Flight Art Of War Strategist

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

“I was shown a fledgling learning to fly. It's first efforts were very feeble. But as it used its wings more and more, they became stronger until it found the freedom of flight and was able to soar to great heights and fly great distance without any effort. I heard the words: Faith comes with practice. Live by faith until it becomes rocklike unshakable, and find the true freedom of the spirit.”

Firsts Able Spiritual Used Spirit Found Effort Practice Heard Stronger Distance Wings Flight Height Live By Soar True Freedom Unshakable Great Heights Fledglings

Author:Eileen Caddy

“Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.”

Modern Evolution Bird Flight Feathers

Author:Alan Feduccia

“Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.”

Men Believe Reality Choices Decision Longing Mere Every Man Factors Flight Resolution Choices And Decisions Oscillation

Book:The Sleepwalkers

Source: The Sleepwalkers

“I admit that I sometimes climbed on other fellows' backs. But I used to watch the flight of the ball perhaps more than the other fellow did. Perfect timing, a deep breath and a natural spring then helped me to get above them.”

Sometimes Used Sports Natural Perfect Watches Spring Balls Breaths Fellows Flight Timing Inspirational Sports Deep Breath Perfect Timing

Author:Roy Cazaly

“I think, just the exhilaration of flying. The freedom of the air. The freedom of flight. And you completely remove yourself from the world. And you can voluntarily remove yourself from all those...everything that's near and dear to you. And you voluntarily return.”

Thinking World Motivation Air Return Dear Flying Flight Remove Exhilaration

Author:Nancy Bird Walton

“Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.”

Writing Firsts Play Lasts Joy Fall Speak Limits Flight Suits Stairs

Author:Jean Cocteau

“In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.”

People Looks May Energy Term Numbers Environment Absolutes Climate Change Flight

Author:Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

“The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.”

Art White Honest Masters Late Flying Flight Too Late Butterfly Idiocy Cabbage Monarch Butterfly

Book:Conversations with Robert Graves

Source: Conversations with Robert Graves

“Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.”

Civilization Flight Keep Going Airplane

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage it. To do this takes courage, even a certain conceit.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Certain Felt Duty Flight Manage Conceit

Author:E. B. White

“What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.”

Firsts Young Knowing Bird Pity Flight Irony Sentiments Surround Tenderness Adolescence Teenage Cunning Mixtures Watchfulness

Book:The Diary of a Country Priest

Source: The Diary of a Country Priest

“Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.”

Made States Today Force Strange Photography Series Familiar Flight Sunday Unnatural Unfamiliar Grotesque

Author:Dorothea Lange

“The word chrysalis alone is an unmistakable indication that here two dreams are joined together, dreams that be-speak both the repose and flight of being, evening's crystallization and wings that open to the light.”

Two Dream Light Together Speak Wings Flight Evening Indication Repose Chrysalis

Author:Gaston Bachelard

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