Famous quotes containing the words powers, include and/or flight:
“... when I exclaim against novels, I mean when contrasted with those works which exercise the understanding and regulate the imagination.For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers ...”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (17591797)
“I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
“Here I am.... You get the parts of me you like and also the parts that make you uncomfortable. You have to understand that other peoples comfort is no longer my job. I am no longer a flight attendant.”
—Patricia Ireland (b. 1935)