Quotes About Routine

Slowly the pattern of our days grew, and shaped itself into a happy life.

I wondered about going down to the creek, but I had no reason to suppose that the creek would even be there, since I never visited it on Tuesday mornings.

I clear breakfast at ten o'clock. I set on lunch at one. Dinner I set on at six. It's ten o'clock.

By the time she was standing up and in her bathrobe the day had fallen into its routine; after the first involuntary rebellion against every day's alarm she subsided regularly into the shower, make-up, dress, breakfast schedule which would take her through the beginning of the day and out into the morning where she could forget the green grass and the hot sun and begin to look forward to dinner and the evening.

I don't stay after I set out dinner," Mrs. Dudley went on. "Not after it begins to get dark. I leave before dark comes.

at my age an hour's reading before bedtime is essential

The twins were loitering over their cereal, and Mrs. Walpole, with one eye on the clock and the other on the kitchen window past which the school bus would come in a matter of minutes, felt the unreasonable irritation that comes with being late on a school morning, the wading-through-molasses feeling of trying to hurry children.

It was not possible to communicate with her because she would not abandon her coffee cup.

This damn place, Natalie said, 2it always turns out not to have the things I want, after all. I get up inside and i knock over an ashtray and everyone looks at me and here I come rushing outdoors because I think it´s where I want to be, and then when I get out here it turns out to be the same old place I passed coming in Thats because you came out the same door, suggested Tony.

The first thing he does when he comes home from the study room in the synagogue, is pick up a book. He reads it and sighs quietly. That means he's hungry.

When the cow goes to pasture," says my mother, "it forgets to say good-bye.

To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism.

Always the same faces, the same surroundings, the same conversations, the same problems. The more it changes, the more it repeats itself. In the end, you feel as if you're dying alive.

Vous êtes tellement jeune! a-t-elle ajouté. On me dit ça souvent, et me sens flattée. Soudain, le mot m'a agacée. C'est un compliment ambigu qui annonce de pénibles lendemains. Garder de la vitalité, de la gaieté, de la présence d'esprit, c'est rester jeune. Donc, le lot de la vieillesse c'est de la routine, la morosité, le gâtisme. Je ne suis pas jeune, je suis bien conservée. C'est different.

Une habitude c'est presque une compagnie, dans la mesure où une compagnie n'est bien souvent qu'une habitude.

Tomorrow morning the walls will stop spinning, the furniture and books will be in their proper places, always the same places. And my ideas, too, will fall back into place, and I'll begin to live again from day to day, without turning my head, looking just so far and no farther into the future.

Não é mais amor: sou apenas um hábito.

To find extraordinary difficulty in doing an ordinary action is a favor which calls for gratitude.

Aucune maison étrangère n'est si étrangère que cette usine où on dépense quotidiennement ses forces pendant huit heures.

The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day.

flight from familiar tedium to new tedium would have for a time the outer look and promise of adventure.

But she knew that she still had no plan in life, save always to go along the same streets, past the same people, to the same shops.

dull and repetitive lifestyle.

But plenty things like this happened before Buzz Windrip ever came in, Doremus, insisted John Pollikop... You never thought about them, because they was just routine news, to stick in your paper.