Best Mundane Wisdom
257 Mundane quotes by 210 unique authors
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I'm not sure you're quite sensible of the honor I'm doing you," Jace said. "you'll be the first mundane who has ever been inside the…
— Cassandra Clare
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I didn't know you were bringing the mundane." His blue eyes flicked uneasily over Simon. "That's what I like about you people," said Simon. "You…
— Cassandra Clare
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Meliorn looked impassive. "Mundane humans are not permitted in the Court." "I wish someone had mentioned that earlier," said Simon, to no one in particular.…
— Cassandra Clare
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There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human…
— Ian McDonald
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She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion,…
— Khaled Hosseini
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A span of a few heartbeats can make for a greater memory than the sum of a mundane year.-Catti-brie
— R A Salvatore
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We had so many dreams as children. Where do they go when we grow? Are they swallowed up by the mundane things of everyday life?…
— Helen Hollick
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The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and began anew; he would discard his old, mundane existence…
— Brandon Sanderson
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What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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I think I like ‘mundane’ better than ‘bloodsucker,’” Simon muttered. “With Jace, you don’t really get to choose your insulting nickname.” -Simon and Clary, pg.234-
— Cassandra Clare
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I always thought love made you stupid. Made you weak. A bad Shadowhunter. 'To love is to destroy.'I believed that[...]I used to think being a…
— Cassandra Clare
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Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering, and the arts.…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing. Every dancer and…
— Peter Watts
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Simon shook his head."Look,do you know what you want to eat,or do you just want me to keep pushing this cart up and down aisles…
— Cassandra Clare
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Love is tricky. It is never mundane or daily. You can never get used to it. You have to walk with it, then let it…
— Amy Tan
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That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish…
— Erin Morgenstern
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And Harry, with the unerring skill of the Seeker, caught the wand in his free hand as Voldemort fell backward, arms splayed, the slit pupils…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long life,…
— Cassandra Clare
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You're a disaster for us, Clary! You're a mundane, you'll always be one, you'll never be a Shadowhunter! You don't know how to think like…
— Cassandra Clare
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It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.
— Terry Pratchett
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Well, there aren’t any graves in mundane wedding ceremonies,” said Tessa. “Though your ability to quote the Bible is impressive. Better than my aunt Harriet’s.”…
— Cassandra Clare
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He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms…
— Erin Morgenstern
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THE VOICE: (to BEAUTY) Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door
— Patricia Briggs
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