Quotes About Routine

Mrs Palis­sey and I tend­ed to have the same con­ver­sa­tions over and over and slight­ly too of­ten.

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy and wise if it don't make him wealthy.

The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.

Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?

The extemporaneous prayer at the close of daily worship normally will be said by the head of the house [Hausvater]. But in any case it is best that it always be said by the same person.

There are those who wake up each morning to conquer the day, and then there are those of us who wake up only because we have to. We live in the shadow of every neighborhood. We own little corner stores, live in run-down apartments that get too little light, and walk the same streets day after day. We spend our afternoons gazing lazily out of windows. Somnambulists, all of us. Someone else said it better: we wake to sleep and sleep to wake.

Peu à peu, ils ont pris l'habitude d'être au fort, ils y sont restés emprisonnés, ils n'ont plus été capables d'en bouger. Vieux à trente ans, en fait.

?imdi kim bilir nas?l s?k?c? bir ya?am bekliyordu?

hep ayn? suratlar, ayn? söylem, ayn? görev, ayn? ka??tlar.

If I don't fish in the morning, I fish in the evening.

I think by planning an exercise regime, your diet follows to some extent.

That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.

And, of course, it might simply be that everyone's become a little bored with one another, doing the same things over and over, hearing and telling the same stories.

I get started at 5:30 in the morning and write till 10 A.M. Then I hike six or seven miles before going back to work.

I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.

I keep wondering if, say, there is intelligent life on other planets, the scientists argue that something like two percent of the other planets have the conditions, the physical conditions, to support life in the way it happened here, did Christ visit each and every planet, go through the same routine, the Agony in the Garden, the Crucifixion, and so on...

There were five children. In the late thirties my father built a house for us, something not too dissimilar to Miess Tugendhat house. It was wonderful to live in but strange to see on the Texas prairie. On Sundays people used to park their cars out on the street and stare. We had a routine, the family, on Sundays. We used to get up from Sunday dinner, if enough cars had parked, and run out in front of the house in a sort of chorus line, doing high kicks.

These days most old people die in profit-making expiration dormitories. Their loving sons and daughters are busy and don't want to forgo the routine of their lives.

I believe that I have such a vanilla life.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

It's a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

I lead a very boring life.

Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing.