Routine Quotes

623 quotes by 528 authors

Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It hit her like a sledgehammer, and it was then that she knew what to feel. A liquid trail of hate flooded her chest. Knowing… — Toni Morrison
Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time… — John Steinbeck
Itâ€™s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it. — John Steinbeck
...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can… — Daphne du Maurier
[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily… — Thornton Wilder
Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal. — Pope John Paul II
Every human occupation has it repertoire of stock phrases, within which every man twists and turn until his death. His vocabulary, which seems so lavish,… — Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull… — Mitch Albom
It is a hard thing when one has shot sixty-five lions or more, as I have in the course of my life, that the sixty-sixth… — H. Rider Haggard
More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century.… — Nicholas D. Kristof
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable. — Harper Lee
I was giving up. I would have given up - if a voice hadn't made itself heard in my heart. The voice said "I will… — Yann Martel
One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common… — Joel Osteen
Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can… — Julia Cameron
I marvel again at the nakedness of men's lives: the showers right out in the open, the body exposed for inspection and comparison, the public… — Margaret Atwood
I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a… — Paulo Coelho
Routine feeds the illusion of safety... — Christopher Moore
I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a… — Thomas Merton
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine. — Honore de Balzac

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