Best Mundane Proverbs
257 Mundane quotes by 210 unique authors
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Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined…
— Atul Gawande
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I want to wake up with you beside me in the mornings. I want to spend my evenings looking at you across the dinner table.…
— Nicholas Sparks
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There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just the inability to…
— Glen Duncan
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Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of a…
— Cassandra Clare
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The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs,…
— Philip Zimbardo
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In all Gabriel’s life he could not remember his brother giving even the prettiest of Shadowhunter girls a second glance. Yet he looked at this…
— Cassandra Clare
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And you love Sophie." Gideon's mouth tensed. "She's a mundane and a servant," said Gabriel. "I don't know what you expect to come of it,…
— Cassandra Clare
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The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to mind, and Idris…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Vampires, fey folk, werewolves, Shadowhunters, and demons - these things made sense to Magnus. But the mundane world - it seemed to have no pattern,…
— Cassandra Clare
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The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from the…
— Richard Dawkins
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What are you? The voice came from nowhere. It was in the room. It was outside. It was in Magnus's head. "A warlock," Magnus answered.…
— Cassandra Clare
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Did you ever think about all of the nights you lived through and can't remember The ones that were so mundane your brain just didn't…
— Matthew Quick
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When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Pretty mundane closet, but a lot of ties. And I tend not to throw anything out, so I have a lot of clothes from all…
— Jeff Koons
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Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.…
— Daniel Radcliffe
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Creativity can release you from the limitations that the world has constructed around you; the everyday, mundane, 9-5 jail cell where everybody is waiting for…
— Robert LaSardo
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I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every day life -…
— Harvey Pekar
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Even just a few spices or ethnic condiments that you can keep in your pantry can turn your mundane dishes into a culinary masterpiece.
— Marcus Samuelsson
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I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels…
— Robert Lopez
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The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright…
— F. Sionil Jose
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I lived the life of Londoners - and thence comes my immense gratitude and my deep attachment with the British people. I do not think…
— Maurice Druon
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Airline glamour never promised anything as mundane as elbow room, much less a flat bed, a massage, or an arugula salad. It promised a better…
— Virginia Postrel
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Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.
— Aaron Swartz
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