Quotes Tagged "routine"

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.

Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.

People just don't seem to get me. Don't understand that I need my space. Always telling me what to do. They think rules and routines and clean hands and your p's and q's will make everything all right. They haven't got a clue.

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dulness. I need only suggest what kind of sermons are still listened to in the most enlightened countries. There are such words as joy and sorrow, but they are only the burden of a psalm, sung with a nasal twang, while we believe in the ordinary and mean.

Don't let your life goals fall victim to the allure of comfortable routines.

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

I was part of Jazzercise class. It was an aerobics routine accompanied by loud music, sounding quite awful to me. Jazzercise was popular in the '80s and '90s.

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

I have a very angular face, so my makeup routine is focused around softening my features, and I've finally learned how to contour to my advantage.

While consumers may be more shocked by pink slime or the feeding of Prozac to poultry, the routine feeding of millions of pounds of human antibiotics to chickens presents a much graver threat.

I can't live just being content. I can't have a routine. I can't be settled because then I just get really frustrated.

I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

I don't really have a beauty routine. I always use coconut oil, and I always wear mascara. That's kind of it! I'm pretty simple.

The biggest thing is just routine. I think that's the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players.

On average, since 9/11, the FBI reckons that just over 100,000 terrorism leads each year have come over the transom. Analysts and agents designate them as immediate, priority or routine, but the bureau says every one is covered.

Before Starbucks, there wasn't as much of a coffeehouse routine; we generally drank really cruddy diner coffee.

The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains.