Routine Quote by Dan Simmons Download Open image ““Odd how the daily imperatives persist even in the face of collective disaster.”” — Dan Simmons ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Routine
“Everywhere risk and defiance weave through the most mundane daily affairs.” — Lucia Berlin Copy Share Image
“All transformation appears to be motivated by desperation and emergency.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Sometimes preventing one disaster creates a much larger disaster in its wake.” — K. Huber Copy Share Image
“This is the root of all catastrophe in the family: no one ever knows when to call it a day.” — Emma Brockes Copy Share Image
“We are so lonely here, with only our loved ones for company. We kill, maim, insult our loved ones, or dream of doing so,… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“In situations of crisis, it was always best to rely on routine.” — Elizabeth Brundage Copy Share Image
“It is curious how, at every crisis, some phrase which does not fit insists upon coming to the rescue” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“You see, when a tragedy like this strikes, it is part of our nature to demand explanations - to try to impose some order… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“What often appears to destroy us is what eventually defines us and takes us to a better place.” — Mike Coe Copy Share Image
“The public craves disaster. Don't understand it myself, but the more tragic, the more intriguing. And this catastrophe has it all. Death, destruction, melodrama.… — Marian Cheatham Copy Share Image
“That’s all! Now either leave us alone or join us as a father rather than a receiver of sacrifices. You have the choice of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“The Song of Kali is with us. It has been with us for a very long time. Its chorus grows and grows and grows.… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“In the end, thought Sol, past logic and hope, it is dreams and the love of those dearest to us that form Abraham’s answer… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“After seven centuries of existence and at least four centuries where few citizens existed without it, the datasphere – including the All Thing and… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“The day before the Queen's Ball, Father had a visitor--a very young girl with literary aspirations, someone Lord Lytton had recommended visit Father and… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
You've probably heard about the theory of steam-engine time - that even after the steam engine had been invented, it had to wait until… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER MISUSE OF THIS CHANNEL. YOU ARE DISTURBING OTHERS WHO ARE USING IT TO SERIOUS PURPOSE. ACCESS WILL BE RESTORED… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wake up an hour and a half before I have to leave the house to do everything I need to do. But I… — Tom Daley Copy Share Image
I used to do stand-up, actually. I had a ten-minute routine I did for a thing called 'Stand Up for Labour' where we'd go… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
I've always just tried to have a routine and go out there and compete every fifth day, and that's really what I'm focusing on. — Patrick Corbin Copy Share Image
I do the functional stuff. I go to the gym and do all these things by myself. I don't have a routine. I like… — Isabeli Fontana Copy Share Image
I have a friend who is a juggler. If I'm at his house, I don't like to take food from him, if it's in… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
The only thing I pay attention to with free throws is what a guy does in the final four minutes of a game. If… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has… — Alexei Navalny Copy Share Image
