Inspirational Scenic Quotes & Sayings

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it. — John C. Calhoun

Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take. — Angela N. Blount

Homeschooling allows you the freedom to step off the highway of learning and take a more scenic route along a dirt road. — Tamara L. Chilver

Though the whole troop wore white garments, no two whites were alike amoung them. Some approached pure blanching, some had a bluish pallor; some worn by the older characters (which has possibly lain by folded for many a year) inclined to a cadavourous tint, and to a georgian style. — Thomas Hardy

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story. — Muriel Spark

G.I. Joe boxers!' Apollo screamed. 'OH - oh, I can't even... HAHAHAHAHA!' 'Aphrodite,' Athena giggled. 'You look simply lovely.' The gods couldn't stop laughing. Soon they were rolling on the floor, wiping tears from their eyes, taking photos with their phones to post on Tumblr. — Rick Riordan

To smell and enjoy the beauty of this precious journey we call life, decorate yourself with luscious scenic nature. — Debasish Mridha

But if you avoid marriage simply because you don't want to lose your freedom, that is one of the worst things you can do to your heart. C. S. Lewis put it vividly: Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation.39 — Timothy Keller

Real work gets done in pairs (51:49). Find your companion. You will know him or her when you feel completely humble in that person's presence, and when you trust that person to lead you along. — Bahauddin

Memory is like glass. A person who has died is still visible, very close. But we can no longer contact each other. Death is mute; it excludes conversations, only allows silence. — Henning Mankell

Light is the most important person in the picture. — Claude Monet

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence. — Henry David Thoreau

Science can't tell us what our life means ethically. It can't tell us what we are meant to do as moral creatures. But, insofar as science can understand what we're made of, and what we're related to, the Darwinian revolution completely revised our ideas about who we are and what we're related to and how long we've been here and why we're on this Earth. — Stephen Jay Gould

Belts with potbellies are pretty bad. I mean, what about an oversized shirt and a trouser? What about an oversized button-up shirt in linen and a trouser? Do us all a favor. — Kelly Cutrone

As long as you hold an improved self-image as a future possibility, you simultaneously hold the image of yourself as inadequate and incomplete. You are, in effect, a house divided. — J. Douglas Bottorff

If you look for a reason to fight someone, then given reason you would fight everyone. — Jarius Raphel

I thought you had outgrown such pranks. — Jessica Dotta

I'm a first class passenger on the Spaceship Earth, and I got one ticket. And I gotta make the ride count, you know? And, as far as I figure, you can either take the service road or the scenic route. And, man, if I only have one ride, I want it to be beautiful.
84. Highway. — Eric Bogosian

Stupidity is not a behavior; it's a religion. One can die for it! — Raheel Farooq