Quotes & Sayings About A Change Of Scenery

Presidents don't get vacations - they just get a change of scenery. The job goes with you. — Nancy Reagan

Well, a change of scenery may be good for you," said Hobie when I went down to see him before I left. "Even if the scene isn't what you'd choose. — Donna Tartt

I get 100 e-mails a day from Americans who say, 'What you're doing is cool - can we work for you?' From Germans, I also get 100 e-mails a day, saying, 'You fat pig!' or 'You're a liar and a criminal!' I'm trying to change this. — Kim Dotcom

(About sweeping) ...
What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends. — Terry Pratchett

This is the essence of travel, or at least travel taken to completion: it's not the change of scenery, or the new way of preparing lamb - it's you. You are lost to yourself, you don't know who will emerge from the pit. — Chris Colin

I don't want their help," he explodes. "I don't want to be someone who needs their help. I want to be just like everyone else, you know, not a special case. — Jodi Picoult

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing. — W. Edwards Deming

If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time - and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air.. — Thomas Mann

There is no way of making three men right but by making right each one of the three; but a cure in one man who repents and turns, is a beginning of the cure of the whole human race. — George MacDonald

Take a good hard look in the mirror, and remember yourself as you are today, cause as time changes, so does the scenery. — Robert M. Hensel

I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of home- and my sanity depends on it. — Dean Koontz

Step and land, step and land. That's all travel was. Throw in some running and a change of scenery. No big deal, right? And so, off he went. Off they went together. — Lynne Rae Perkins

Your life isn't some prerecorded movie where, no matter how many times you watch it, the ending remains the same. Your life is a book in progress, and you are the author. So if you don't care for the main character or the gloomy scenery or how the twisted plot is unfolding, then do something to change it. You write your own story. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Fall is the season of beauty and delicious food. Be grateful for the change of scenery, and try observing it to get more book ideas. — B.A. Gabrielle

But Nancy is right - Presidents don't have vacations - they just have a change of scenery"; — Ronald Reagan

A simple change of scenery can bring about powerful shifts in the flow of time and emotions — Haruki Murakami

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. — Sydney Smith

Gratitude doesn't change the scenery. It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Thus an excess of directness and a want of art, in the second phase, robbed Caesar of his chance of ending the war in one campaign, and condemned him to four more years of obstinate warfare all round the Mediterranean basin. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Seeing the same coverages, the same personnel, and for us to change the whole scenery, and bring somebody else in that's necessarily competitive, a professional competitiveness, where guys are respecting each other's careers, but yet are getting better. For us [players] to come out here and a get a win, I think it helped us with those practices. — Cam Newton

Life is cruel enough without unnecessary brutality. Fight it. — John Knight

As I've already mentioned, there is just one way to escape this negative spiral - by tidying efficiently all at once, as quickly as possible, to make the perfect clutter-free environment. But how does this create the right mind-set? When you tidy your space completely, you transform the scenery. The change is so profound that you feel as if you are living in a totally different world. This deeply affects your mind and inspires a strong aversion to reverting to your previously cluttered state. The key is to make the change so sudden that you experience a complete change of heart. The same impact can never be achieved if the process is gradual. To achieve a sudden change like this, you need to use the most efficient method of tidying. Otherwise, before you know it, the day will be gone and you will have made no headway. The more time it takes, the more tired you feel, — Marie Kondo

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair. — Walker Percy

If you are not the lead dog, your scenery never changes. — Lewis Grizzard

My mother said I should have a 'change of scenery.' The word scenery made be think of a play. And as we were driving around, it made sense that way. Because no matter how much the scenery changed, we were still on the same stage. — David Levithan

When you tidy your space completely, you transform the scenery. The change is so profound that you feel as if you are living in a totally different world. — Marie Kondo

I think everybody else in Hollywood, including network execs, has the opportunity to ask for a raise or a change in scenery in a much shorter time frame than actors. But I do think the networks have to protect themselves. — Jorja Fox

O Christian, within a very little time you shall be rid of all your trials and your troubles. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The key to a better life isn't always a change of scenery. Sometimes it simply requires opening your eyes. — Richelle E. Goodrich

My experiences have taught me that things rarely improve with a simple change of scenery. — Pittacus Lore

No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself. — Haruki Murakami

I don't spend much on clothes. I buy old books. I tell myself I ought to save - it's the classic Northern work ethic. I like good holidays, though. I'm a big fan of cruises. I love unpacking once and having the scenery change every day. — Alan Titchmarsh

Been to yesterdays,
lived through todays.
Looking on toward tomorrows -
new characters, new plays.
The whys of life change,
and so do ways,
new scenery is built,
to fill an empty stage. — Lee Bennett Hopkins

It felt important to be able to pick up and go whenever this endless stirring and inevitable craving for a change of scenery would bubble over because I didn't want to die someday yearning for something else when it was only "something else" worth living. — Jackie Haze

Leave it to the Russians to have an angel gulag. — Verlaine

This is what i need, i think. A change of scenery. — Jennifer Niven

Sex without a condom was just a physical symbol of an emotional barricade destroyed. — Melanie Harlow

thrives on exploration and a change in scenery is often all it takes to rejuvenate a distressed ENFP. — Heidi Priebe

To the SICK the doctors wisely recommed a change of air and scenery — Henry David Thoreau

Women are people too". — R. Alan Woods

Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect. — Jack Schmitt

I first realized I was psychic next Monday — Dean Cavanagh

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being. — Deepak Chopra

I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not. — T.H. White