Humdrum Quotes
38 Humdrum quotes by 34 unique authors
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The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of…
— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.
— Graham Greene
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What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking…
— Russell Brand
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There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and…
— Anne Rice
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The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or sectarian beliefs. Inferring that biochemical systems were designed by an…
— Michael Behe
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School was more than academics; an education prepared you for the humdrum of real life: working with others, tempering one's personality to assimilate with the…
— Melissa de la Cruz
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I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of…
— Terry Pratchett
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People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine.
— Daphne du Maurier
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People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an…
— Carl Sagan
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For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into…
— Drew Gilpin Faust
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Scripture repeatedly makes clear that heaven is a realm of unsurpassed joy, unfading glory, undiminished bliss, unlimited delights, and unending pleasures. Nothing about it can…
— John Macarthur
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