Quotes About Weekends Away

#1. I dreamed of death the way previously I'd dreamed of the pain leaving me, and the way before that I'd dreamed of gardens and children and weekends away. Death was my elusive lover, treasured and longed for and jealously guarded, and always distant. Always out of reach.

Elizabeth Haynes

#2. Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.

Casey Stengel

#3. Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and ran together again, leaving a watery film over his ruined face.

Albert Camus

#4. Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.

Sir Fulke Greville

#5. Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.

Simone Weil

#6. The Carpetbaggers was the first big money I made. Money gave me a lot of freedom, but no matter how much you make there's always somebody chasing your ass for more.

Harold Robbins

#7. Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

Stanislav Grof

#8. Hard to watch where we're going when our eyes are on each other and not on the path we're taking.

Jay Crownover

#9. The value of a scientific publication goes beyond this simple benefit, of all relevant information appearing, unambiguously, in one place. It's also a way to communicate your ideas to your scientific peers, and invite them to express an informed view.

Ben Goldacre

#10. [H]as it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?
[1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor' (Columbia University / The New York Times, December 12, 1991)]

Salman Rushdie

#11. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell.

Lin Yutang

#12. I want people to make the same choice I made to get healthy.

Star Jones

#13. Gretchen Lowell was beautiful in a very grown-up way, in a sophisticated, confident way. It was more than beauty; it was the power of beauty. She radiated it.

Chelsea Cain

#14. I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing it." He panted. "Go ahead. Hate me - despise me for it.

Sarah J. Maas

#15. a family will visit constantly, daily or even twice a day. Then maybe every other day. Then just weekends. After months or years, the visits taper off, until it's just, say, birthdays and Christmas. Eventually, most families move away, as far as they can get.

Paul Kalanithi

#16. Being away for the weekends, and me being the international player that I have been for those 30 years, I've spent a lot more time flying around the world, playing different golf tournaments around the world.

Greg Norman

#17. I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.

Gary Sinise

#18. ...and he wondered if he appeared as ludicrous to others as he did to himself.

John Williams

#19. I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing.

Jimmy Rushing

#20. When I was a teenager, I learned that in order to play guitar like Johnny Ramone, it takes a huge amount of physical effort.

Kevin Shields