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He (Daedalus) would follow that bearing, the sun on his shoulders and the past slipping away. — Robert William Case

My leadership began to take flight when I allowed myself to press people to change-whether they thanked me or cursed me. — John C. Maxwell

Today Obama was seen leaving the White House in a nurse's uniform on a flight to Cuba to smother Castro with a pillow. — Bill Maher

It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight. — Igor Sikorsky

Beware of the flight of Blessings,
For nothing that runs away is returned. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

When I first came out of Argentina to Europe, the flight took 36 hours. Now it takes 12 hours, and the world is still shrinking. — Juan Manuel Fangio

Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained. — Gary Zukav

Oh! that my soul had winged its flight,
When first I saw the morning light,
To worlds of liberty! — George Moses Horton

Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates. — Doug Larson

[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected. — Hugh L. Dryden

Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

A lot of guys just got off the flight yesterday. There's no excuses but that's the reality. — John Grahame

Air France's in-flight magazine. — Ervin Laszlo

Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands. — John Dryden

I get scared when I think I'm going to miss my flight. I get obsessed when I actually miss a flight. — Boman Irani

One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning. — Connie Willis

Stay fly, you can call me Have a Safe Flight — Nicki Minaj

I'm a shaky traveler, she said. I can't even sleep through a flight, I have to be awake for the crash. — Jill Shalvis

In 1980, it cost just under $600 to take a round-trip flight within the United States. — Peter Diamandis

Regretful and negative thoughts about the past can effectively induce the same kind of fight or flight response that external threats stimulate. — Gudjon Bergmann

Old age is
a flight of small
cheeping birds
skimming
bare trees
above a snow glaze. — William Carlos Williams

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again — Richard Bach

Woods disguised as woods alive without end, and above them birds in flight play birds in flight. — Wislawa Szymborska

Even if you're not enjoying the flight, it's futile to threaten to get out and walk. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Whenever a situation arises that creates fear, there are two alternatives - either you fight or you take flight. — Osho

Wealthy the spirit that knows its own flight. Stealthy the hunter who slays his own fright. Blessed the traveler who journeys the length of the light — Dan Fogelberg

Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning. — Edouard Rene De Laboulaye

Behind every successful flight, lies the will, full of thrust, against the wind; the will to win. — Vikrmn

So long, I replied, may we all have one good flight before we rest among flowers and the orbits of hungry worms. — Rawi Hage

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight. — William Carlos Williams

As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes. — Chris Hadfield

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

2 minutes in heaven is better than 1 minute in heaven. — Flight Of The Conchords

When people get into that fight-or-flight place, then they move away from the creative centers of their brain. — Chip Conley

It is where you want to be in the next five years, not where you are now. — Shannon L. Alder

The great take steps to success, the extraordinary take leaps to success, and the remarkable take flight to success. — Matshona Dhliwayo

She's so hot. I wanna tell her she's hot, but she'll think I'm sexist. She's so hot, she's making me sexist ... bitch.
— Flight Of The Conchords

How blessings brighten as they take their flight. — Edward Young

The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway. — Albert Einstein

In China, any idea that dared to take flight would only crash back to the ground. The gravity of reality is too strong. — Liu Cixin

They tryna shoot down my flight before it lands — Drake

Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. — Plato

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. — Arnold Palmer

[E]very journey is played out between standstill and flight. — Claudio Magris

Let Your Imagination Take Flight — Jordan Bernal

Flight without feathers is not easy. — Plautus

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you. — Georg Hermes

The caterpillar takes flight the moment it believes it was born to fly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight. — Jeremy Brett

Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever? — Juana Ines De La Cruz

The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants. — C. Walton Lillehei

I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age. — Elrey Borge Jeppesen

If you wanna find out 101 things to do with plums, heh, read your in-flight magazine. — David Cross

The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode. — Deepak Chopra

I get the first flight out from anywhere I am because I have to come home to my kids. — Paula Poundstone

Flight usually intensifies the very thing one flees and establishes a special intimacy with it. — Thomas Moore

throughout the flight, but there — Arthur C. Clarke

The thing I'll remember most about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I'm sure it was the most fun that I'll ever have in my life. — Sally Ride

Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination. — Plato

I am still alone, broken and small, the butterfly fighting for life in the grass. — Marie Lu

There isn't a flight goes by when I don't stare out of the window and thank my stars for what I'm seeing and feeling. — Richard Branson

Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night! — Elizabeth Chase Allen

Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them. — Mark Nepo

I once sat next to Jim from Wild Kingdom on a flight from Atlanta. I find mentioning that opens a lot of doors. — Todd Barry

When your hands leap towards mine, love, what do they bring me in flight? — Pablo Neruda

Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night, Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to. Flight. — Gene Wolfe

Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite. — John Muir

Experience has taught me that you feel better on a flight if you avoid chicken fat in plastic sauce. — Terry Pratchett

Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries. — Eoin Colfer

Only when the eagle believes it was born to fly does it take flight. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Come up and be a kite,
On a diamond flight! — Kate Bush

Jump, take that flight, and build your wings on the way down. — Dilip Bathija

Flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home. — Herman Melville

In a world of such beauty as birds in flight, surely I can come to feel at home again, even after my loss. — Martha Whitmore Hickman

The only thing that can combat fear is action. And there's two actions. There's fight and flight. — Earl Sweatshirt

You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage ... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet. — Robert Smith

I cannot do confrontation. You know that fight or flight thing? I'm flight. I just don't want the argument. — Jennifer Saunders

Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven
They fade, they fly
but truth survives the flight. — William C. Bryant

Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions. — Charles Dickens

We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight. — Richard Bach

I could be the drumbeat in your chest like madness before a storm swirling restlessly. — Moonshine Noire

The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly. — Colum McCann

Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward. — Edward Abbey

Flight attendants all over the world saw 'Sex and the City.' Doesn't matter what country you are in. The flight attendants know Jack Berger. — Ron Livingston

Yes, I am a pilot. I am a flight instructor and a commercial pilot. — Treat Williams

It was a love of perpetual flight. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after. — Pete Seeger

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

Awestruck, Flora stared at the dishevelled sisters with their blazing faces and radiant ragged wings, who smelled of no kin but the wild high air. — Laline Paull

Poised for flight, Wings spread bright, Spring from night into the Sun. — Robert Hunter

Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying to take you unaware. — Sun Tzu

Dance releases energy mobilized by the fight-or-flight stress response that was otherwise restrained. — Judith Lynne Hanna

was a quiet flight, Ethan's attention divided between staring out his window and glancing back through — Blake Crouch

Totally uneventful. It was a very successful first flight. To be honest, it was a little bit boring. — Fernando Alonso

Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight ... — Marianne Williamson

The secret of flight is this
you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws. — Michael Cunningham

Today I will fly in the peaceful blue sky with a flight of doves. — Debasish Mridha

There's no reason to suffer this flight alone when we can suffer it together. — Stephanie Perkins

Apollo was a big, unwieldy vehicle. I had a problem with the flight controllers over that. It would try to fare its way like an airplane. — Wally Schirra

When confronted with a major emotional trigger like this, I have two modes - fight or flight - — Lex Martin