Ruts Quotes - Page 2

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.

Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.

Were marriage no more than a convenient screen for sexuality, some less cumbersome and costly protection must have been found by this time to replace it. One concludes therefore that people do not marry to cohabit; they cohabit to marry. They do not seek freedom to rut so much as they seek the rut of wedlock.

...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

Where ruts have not yet been worn, it requires less effort to stay out of them.

It's time for us to rise up, get out of the rut and routine, and begin to take our Christian faith seriously.

There is something therapeutic about doing for others that lifts a person out of the rut of self-thought.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

How many times have I failed before? How many times have I stood here like this, in front of my own image, in front of my own person, trying to convince him not to be scared, to go on, to get out of this rut? How many times before I finally convince myself, how many private, erasable deaths will I need to die, how may self-murders is it going to take, how many times will I have to destroy myself before I learn, before I understand?

I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut.

I get into a rut, unable to yank my mind out of it.

Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.

[All governments] get into a rut where every potentially good story turns into a bad one.

To succeed, find the right rut and stay with it.

My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.

If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.

You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut.

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

I figured out that I can't forget. I can't really forgive. But I can live. Live with it. Like you live with a scar or a limp or whatever. You always know it's there. It reminds you never to let yourself do anything so stupid and horrible and wrong again. I step out of my rut, step again, and keep stepping. (277)