Quotes About Routine

It could be hail and gale outside. Mrs Quinty opened the windows. Then she took out these little wipes and wiped down the surface of the desk. That lady brought with her her own environment.

Thursday is perhaps the worst day of the week. It's nothing in itself; it just reminds you that the week has been going on too long.

I hate Mondays, don't you?" "Not really

She was always on her feet. Cooking. Washing. Ironing.

His hours of sleep were no more fixed than those of his meals.

Conscious craft turned into unconscious routine. When

Fridays! They are the worst. Days stuffed with itsy-bitsy multicoloured tasks that fill every second of the day, but like M&M´s fail to nourish in any way.

Much of the time, things had been neutral-- they had behaved like a well oiled machine, like a couple of partners running the business that was their marriage. And aren't most marriages like that most of the time? The good ones, at any rate.

Humans are social primates, and socialising with the rest of our species requires a fair amount of routine self-censorship and outright lying, which we dignify with names such as 'tact', 'courtesy' and 'politeness'.

Coffee is a vital element of a first-rate day.

The rhythms of the household had changed.

Die Intellektuelle Geschichte Deutschlands lehrt uns, daß der Geist mit Vorliebe in den Seelen weht, die ihre Größe durch ein Leben der eintönigen Routine erkämpfen.

Others found the implication odd that they could live their way forever- working and drinking and watching TV- and why they would want to.

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

You can get the clothes into the washing machine. You can get them out. You can arrange them over the radiators to dry. You can collect the dried clothes and put them in a heap ready for sorting. But you cannot, cannot, get the clothes back into their cupboards and drawers. Until that pile at the end of the bed becomes a volcano of frustration and accusation and despair; ever growing, ever depleting you.

To rise at six, dine at ten, Sup at five, to bed at ten, Makes man live ten times ten.

It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially splendid because it's not at all routine or automatic. Fascism goes back to our infancy and childhood, where we were always told how to live. We were told, Yes, you may do this; no, you may not do that. So the secret of fascism is that it has this appeal to people whose later lives are not satisfactory.

Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative. We find that it is not a new scene which is needed, but a new viewpoint.

I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.

Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

Evde oturmaya o kadar al??m???m ki sanki evden ç?k?nca gerçek bir dünyada ya?am?yorum.Evin d???nda her yer sanki ayn?,sanki bütün insanlar birbirine benziyor.Ne ac?kl? de?il mi?

Onu görüyorlard?. Hiçbir ?ey yapmadan, aptalca bir düzen içinde ya?arken kimse görmüyordu. Sonra, al???lm???n d???ndaen küçük bir davran??? görüyorlard?. Nas?l görüyorlard? acaba? Sizi gördük diyorlard?.