Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leo Tolstoy

We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.

Seamus Heaney

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

Earl Nightingale

A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out.

Bruce McCulloch

I'm in a rut deep enough to hang posters.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

James Broughton

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Laurence J. Peter

A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.

Tom Brown, Jr.

We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.

Twyla Tharp

When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?

Arthur Conan Doyle

I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual. - Sherlock Holmes

Blaise Pascal

The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.

Raymond E. Feist

When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces.

Ryan Robertson

We pounded it inside. That isn't something we do real well, but we did it better than usual tonight.

Jamie Oliver

As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.

Clara Barton

I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual.

Franz Ferdinand

He would never do just the usual on-the-road burgers and chips.

Vandana Shiva

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.