quotes about Ruts
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The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
-- Arnold Bennett -
Ritualism is nothing more than a rut and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the length and the depth.
-- Chuck Smith -
Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane.
-- Doug Larson -
A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out.
-- Earl Nightingale -
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Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.
-- Eugene Delacroix -
People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you're the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype
-- Eva Mendes -
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)
-- Gail Giles -
No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.
-- Guy Finley -
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.
-- Hilary Mantel -
They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.
-- James A. Garfield -
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
-- John Dewey -
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A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.
-- Laurence J. Peter -
If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.
-- Levon Helm -
My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.
-- Malin Akerman -
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There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.
-- Mark Twain -
Old carts can be repainted but they still keep moving in the same old ruts
-- Mongo BetiSource : Mongo Beti (1978). “Perpetua and the Habit of Unhappiness”, Heinemann Educational Books
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Others see their possibility in the reality of you. Your message is your life lived.
-- Neale Donald Walsch -
The rut I was in with the people that I had been previously been with it took the heart right out of me.
-- Peter Cetera -
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Get out of your rut and into the groove...
-- Ray Wylie Hubbard -
It's hotter than a snake's ***** in a wagon rut
-- Robin Williams -
So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?
-- Ruth Gordon -
Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions.
-- Theodor Herzl -
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There is something therapeutic about doing for others that lifts a person out of the rut of self-thought.
-- Tim LaHaye -
Let's go again to Niag'ra, This time we'll look at the Fall. Let's leave our hut, Dear, Get out of our rut, Dear, Let's get away from it all.
-- Tom Adair -
We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.
-- Tom Brown, Jr. -
I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut.
-- Tom Perrotta -
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When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.
-- Twyla Tharp -
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.
-- Virgilia PetersonSource : Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books
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True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying.
-- Frances HarperSource : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.397, Feminist Press at CUNY