Ruts Quotes

Ritualism is nothing more than a rut and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the length and the depth.

Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.

More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.

It's hotter than a snake's ass in a wagon rut.

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.

Old carts can be repainted but they still keep moving in the same old ruts

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.

Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane.

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

No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

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

Others see their possibility in the reality of you. Your message is your life lived.

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

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.

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

A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out.

I think often women can feel isolated and feel like they get into a rut and don't quite know how to get out of it.

A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.

My brain was all right back then; it didn't get stuck in ruts.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

The rut I was in with the people that I had been previously been with it took the heart right out of me.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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