Everyday Quotes - Page 28

It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.

Everyday that passes I am pulled from youth as how it has been defined by that culture into something else.

Many is the mirage I chased. Always I was overreaching myself. The oftener I touched reality, the harder I bounced back to the world of illusion, which is the name for everyday life.

How to extract its honey from the flower of the world. That is my everyday business. I am as busy as a bee about it. I ramble over fields on that errand and am never so happy as when I feel myself heavy with honey and wax. I am like a bee searching the livelong day for the sweets of nature.

It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxicab or fry a pan of fish.

The one who chooses to love will find appropriate ways to express that decision everyday.

I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when I'm vacuuming or waiting in lines.

And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love.

The only everyday and eternal reality was love.

Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.

In my everyday life, I can be as square as I want. But when it comes to movies and telling stories, I can't. I've got to be radical, and on some level, that's what I like to do.

Do something everyday that scares you.

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

I've always thought that we have to bring our spirituality into our everyday life such as even brushing our teeth with God.

I think if you work in television everyday, and you must be privy to everything happening in television, then do so.

I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story.

The spirit of Texas seems to pervade our everyday existence. Our desire is to be superlative, not only the largest, but also the best in the United States.

Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around him.

My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.

Like an explorer returned from a distant planet or another dimension, Suki Kim has many extraordinary tales to tell, among them how different--and how awful--life is for those who live in North Korea. The devil is in the details here, for her gritty narrative focuses on everyday events to reveal how repression shapes daily life, even for the most privileged. Yet Kim also bears witness to that part of the human soul that no oppressor can ever claim.

Everyday, it's about building a practice that enables you to try and forget that you're afraid.

Any job you can go to and have a laugh everyday has got to be a good job.

We're taught that domestic life is not a "serious" political topic, like war and peace, but the fact is that we spend most of our lives doing everyday things: at the dinner table, in the kitchen, washing dishes, grocery-shopping, commuting. These things make up the fabric of our lives.

We gauge risk literally hundreds of times per day, usually well and often subconsciously. We start assessing risk before the disaster even happens. We are doing is right now. We decide where to live and what kind of insurance to buy, just like we process all kinds of everyday risks: we wear bike helmets, or not. We buckle our seatbelts, smoke cigarettes, and let our kids stay out until midnight. Or not.