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Life should be treated like a vacation. On vacation, we conquer challenges, see new things, learn, and experience with joy; we are not constantly worried about the flight out.


Jim Genovese

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SARAH MLYNOWSKI We played like we were on vacation.
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DOUG MURPHY Some people go to Elderhostel as more like a vacation. We go because we want to learn.
BILL KEIM We like to vacation with Mark's family.
DOROTHY SMITH Some are saying I should resign, some want me impeached, some say I should go on vacation, ... This ...
JOSEPH ESTRADA I did host the Jim Rome show with Jerry Ferrara for three hours when he was on vacation. Three hours...
KEVIN CONNOLLY We are constantly searching out events and things where we can interact with deaf people or learn mo...
MARIBETH LARTZ My family is outraged because this person hasn't been arrested and is on paid vacation. No one ever ...
MARIELA CARRION We have a moral sense of how employees should be treated. We've always been committed to having our ...
CAROL HICKNER Going on a vacation like this is not conspicuous consumerism. They are popular because the travelers...
BRENT GREEN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; ...
FRANK LUNTZ I'm more obsessed with the idea of vacation than any one particular vacation spot. I love to exp...
CANDICE ACCOLA Challenges are part of life so you might as well learn how to conquer them.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN I'm on vacation here. I'm not here to learn anything. Anything I pick up is just lint.
DOMINIQUE SWAIN It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not ra...
FRANK LUNTZ The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN Life experience brings out different emotions and different perspectives on things. I just want to b...
KIESZA We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them...
H.G. WELLS This will definitely not be a vacation,
LARRY WEBER The further out we get from the cancer it's a joy to see her up on the stage or doing other things a...
KATHY GREEN So you have a person who is basically on vacation in Las Vegas for a week and is being paid and not ...
DENNIS CURTIN Though we think bedtime is the last thing on anyone's mind while on a Royal Caribbean cruise, we do ...
ADAM GOLDSTEIN We will probably concentrate more on those people who are on vacation and tailor those offerings to ...
BILL SMITH Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Here we are on a vacation and out of nowhere she starts going to the mini-bar. And I come in and she...
DAVID GEST We've had a lot of rain up at our place, so it's great to see some sunshine. Coming down here is lik...
JARED THOMPSON I think we've done just about everything that can be done on a school vacation.
JAN MURPHY We're excited. It's Christmas vacation and all we have to worry about is hockey.
JOSH BLAISDELL I'd come out to Los Angeles for a vacation to see a friend and just fell in love with it.
CLAIRE FORLANI Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and t...
ANGELINA JOLIE life is simply a vacation from the infinite
DEAN CAVANAGH Each day, over one million people are treated successfully, and we all know that in the complex worl...
EDWARD LEIGH The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule. My...
KELLY CLARKSON Life is about choices. Choose your influences carefully. Be selective of everything you see, hear, r...
JASON VERSEY It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort and remembered with...
RONALD REAGAN I'll be out there next week, getting in a little vacation.
MARK WHIPPLE It is altogether fitting and proper that we should enjoy things made for us to enjoy. What is not at...
ELISABETH ELLIOT People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard a...
J. AUGUST STRINDBERG People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard a...
AUGUST STRINDBERG This Car Drives Like a VACATION!
S.TIMOTHY SINCLAIR If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... We're a tough team. We're not afraid of anybody. We're not worried about how young or inexperienced ...
WES MILLER I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
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SATHESH KUMAR M If we can help people see that it's not just a race, that it's an opportunity to build life-long fri...
DAN HILL [The president has been on vacation] almost a year now, ... but Sheehan says she can never enjoy ano...
AMY GOODMAN It's like a holiday, a vacation almost.
CARLOS FRANCO A vacation is a sunburn at premium prices
HAL CHADWICKE Before the Easter vacation there was short-covering in London as next Wednesday is also the settleme...
WANG ZHENG I like to think I've been on vacation ever since.
DARA KHOSROWSHAHI The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, ...
NHAT HANH It makes you feel like you're on vacation. It's the kind of drink that should have an umbrella stick...
JOHN MAYER A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The virus writers [are] ... back from vacation and they've started pushing out their creations.
VINCENT GULLOTTO My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like ...
TIM CAHILL We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges,
DANA REEVE Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE I honestly if I get a vacation I'm gonna go and sit on my couch in New York cause that's the one pla...
MATT DAMON Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK You should see life as a learning experience and not complain about it.
NIVEDITA VEDURLA Many visitors from all over the country are looking for enriching and rewarding experiences on vacat...
SONNY PERDUE It's a significant part of the population. These individual tend to not have any health-care benefit...
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JEFF GREEN Those are the things we think we should be focusing on, and those are the things we hope that we can...
CAROL FLORMAN We think it's appealing to people to be able to give their cars a vacation.
AARON WEINSTEIN Real luxury is not working like a maniac to take an expensive vacation--it is living a life you enjo...
KATHY GOTTBERG On vacation, I totally unplug. I don't bring a laptop with me.
WILL WRIGHT Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Eve...
CRISS JAMI Volume has been really good. We are seeing a pick-up as people are returning from vacation,
LARRY YOUNG We're not on vacation. We're down here to play a football game.
ANDY REID We were planning on going to New Orleans for vacation about the time it happened. After it happened,...
JEFF NEAL We have to get jobs to support ourselves. We can't sit around for six months like it's vacation.
SHANNON MILLER We see bad things happening and we do not change them. I have made mistakes in many ways, some were ...
VICTOR WERNET I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family.
WOLFGANG PUCK We want our guests to have a fun-filled vacation with everything they need right here.
TIM ROBERTS On vacation, you can wear all the colorful and casual clothing that you like, but you must always be...
CHRISTIAN DIOR I'm getting a lot of flak about overweight bags. People are used to bringing everything but the kitc...
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CHRISTOPHER CROSS My kids are on spring break and this was scheduled as a two-week vacation. The Masters, obviously, w...
STEPHEN AMES I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
CHARLES M. BLOW If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life t...
DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER I wouldn't really be that disappointed ... I'd go on vacation.
LARRY SCOTT Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on va...
SUSAN SONTAG Whether it's a day, a weekend or a week, a learning vacation is a renewing experience.
DORLENE KAPLAN Just for the record, we never broke up. We just took a fourtee year vacation.
THE EAGLES American workers receive the least amount of vacation days (12 on average) among all the countries t...
KARI SWARTZ It could have been a kid walking or a mother and child. The kids are on vacation.
GAIL TUCKER We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.
JOHN DEWEY I take my vacation on the combine and tractor.
JON TESTER Parker and Hardison look like they're having a good time."

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GREG COX Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be trea...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE It's the same reason we go on vacation. It's a change. The living is just as good somewhere else.
COADY HAGA If you're a Mom or Dad on vacation with the kids, the last thing you want is to arrive at the hotel ...
MICHELLE PELUSO The first questions to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thoug...
ALDOUS HUXLEY We've seen their pictures and we don't like it. We don't like the way they are treated. We have a lo...
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