#flight

I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it brings in the highest highs and the lowest lows. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#brings #emotional #endeavor #flight #highest

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#back #becomes #character #come #flight

And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite. ↗

— Umberto Guidoni

#chance #flight #happened #really #satellite

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#defending #enemy #flight #give #means

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. ↗

— Edward E. Barnard

#fetter #flights #our #restrain #well

I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#flight #art

Why are we designed to see the world as supremely beautiful just as we're about to be snuffed? Do rabbits feel the same as the fox teeth bite down on their necks? Is it mercy? ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#fight-or-flight-response #beauty

Books allow you to take flight, unlike the chicken wings I stapled to my back before eating them. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#chicken #eating #flight #food #imagination

Another man might have taken vengeance in blood and fire, or made an end of himself. Regan is stronger than that. There's a light shining in him, moving him forward: the light of freedom. That's what draws all of us to follow, to take risks, to keep on figting when we see our comrades fall beside us. But there's no light without shadow. ↗

— Juliet Marillier

#raven-flight #freedom

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

— Michael Cunningham

#flying #secret