Quotes About Routine

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.

Then Lucia said, "So what do we do now?" "Nothing," Otto said. "Things will go on as just they always have.

Let's go, then," Ellery said, stopping a sigh. "Shall we go?" the Superintendent asked promptly. And after a few silent moments of walking he said, "That is the communal dining hall." "I know, Superintendent. I ate there this morning. And yesterday. And the day before." The man looked at him glassily. "It is where the community eats," he said. "Ah," said Ellery. "Thank you." What was the use?

When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.

were almost commonplace.

I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.

For years, I lived a life in which nothing really happened.

Indeed, if you ever feel your life is getting a little routine, a bit humdrum, I can wholeheartedly recommend going on tour in the company of a hugely eccentric six-foot-seven gay blues singer with a drink problem. You'll find things liven up quite considerably.

espíritu de la serie «Seinfeld», que aún vemos todas las noches sabiéndonos como nos sabemos casi todos los capítulos de memoria.

Do wake up daily with appreciations to God. Also, dare to work daily with determination and finally retire daily with satisfaction.

Ce faceti de dimineata pana seara? Ma indur.

get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression.

I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity

Just as reflection disappears to the extent that thought and action take the form of automatic habits, it awakes only when accepted habits become disorganized.

The mode of governing the country, according to the existing laws, is mostly worn into a rut, and most administrations move in it because it is easier to move there than anywhere else.

It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results.

Society is too correct and dull to be an occupation.

Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

If I were a father I should hate the child, who, punctual as the clock, had every morning and evening an explosion of tenderness and wished me good-day and good-evening, because he was ordered to do so. It is in this way that all that is generous and spontaneous in human sentiment becomes strangled at its birth. You may judge from this what love means when it is bound to a fixed hour!

The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.

I got dressed to begin another day. Over and over, we begin again. (Kitchen, 103)

Until Eriko's death my relationship with Yuichi had been laughing and carefree, but under the surface it had been growing more and more complicated. The times of great happiness and great sorrow were too intense; it was impossible to reconcile them with the routine of daily life.

There's nothing as senseless as being harried at a simple do-what's-needed part-time job.

Pero si él pudiera acostumbrarse al hecho de que todos los días son una absurda repetición del anterior, a estar siempre con la misma persona, a la idea de que únicamente el vuelo de un pequeño corazón puede colorear el mundo..., si fuera capaz, entonces, quizás, algo podría ir cambiando, poco a poco.