Routine Quotes
623 quotes by 544 authors
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In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health,…
— Rowan Williams
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I'm definitely up in weight. I'm looking forward to getting an exercise routine again. It's like a daily decision.
— Carnie Wilson
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret'…
— Felix Dennis
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Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work…
— Hanna Rosin
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Hospitalizations in general are blurry. The days are the same, precisely the same. Nothing changes. Life melts down to a simple progression of meals. They…
— Marya Hornbacher
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Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that…
— Sarah Vowell
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Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow…
— Paulo Coelho
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I am a great believer in variations on the routine.
— Kaye Gibbons
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But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide…
— Dave Eggers
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By using money as the scapegoat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able to conveniently disallow ourselves to do otherwise: 'John, I'd love…
— Tim Ferriss
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I think she was the love of his life. When you've got one of those, it does stuff to you. It makes you think about…
— Nora Roberts
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Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
— Bill Watterson
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A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck…
— William Least Heat-Moon
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I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially…
— Norman Mailer
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Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time.
— May Sarton
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Routine kills creative thought.
— Scarlett Thomas
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Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to…
— Pope John Paul II
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Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from…
— Rick Moody
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Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that…
— Bertrand Russell
Who Wrote These Routine Quotes
544 authors contributed a total of 623 Routine Quotes, led by these top contributors: