Monotony Quotes

• What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?

  

  George Eliot
  • Loved
  • Novelty
  • Monotony

• We cannot escape from our daily routine, because it will go with us wherever we go.... God must be sought and found in the things of our world. By regarding our daily duties as something performed for the honour and glory of God, we can convert what was hitherto soul-killing monotony, to a living worship of God in all our actions. Everyday life must become itself our prayer.

  

  Karl Edward Wagner
  • Action
  • Prayer
  • Worship

• What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Man
  • Habit

• Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Collapse
  • Novelty
  • Cubicles

• Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Occupation
  • Monotony
  • Law Of Nature

• It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony, to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay.

  

  Emma Orczy
  • Happy
  • Water
  • Thoughts

• People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • People
  • Live
  • Ants

• But could it be little me you was hecklin me Now it's monotony winnin regularly

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Littles
  • Bragging
  • Monotony

• Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Ocean
  • Love Is
  • Souls

• Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Exercise
  • Disappear
  • Collapse

• When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

  

  Lady Margaret Sackville
  • Creation
  • Condition
  • Monotony

• monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Marriage
  • Virtue
  • Security

• Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Lifetime
  • Souls
  • Discovering

• I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Convinced
  • Human Heart
  • Virginity

• The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Grain
  • Monotony
  • Grinds

• A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.

  

  Ivor Novello
  • Home
  • Cinema
  • Evening

• There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Time
  • Work
  • Love

• I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Common
  • Smooth
  • Monotony

• When I first organized the King Cole Trio back in 1937, we were strictly what you would call an instrumental group. To break the monotony, I would sing a few songs here and there between the playing. I sang things I had known over the years. I wasn't trying to give it any special treatment, just singing. I noticed thereafter people started requesting more singing, and it was just one of those things.

  

  Nathaniel Adams Coles
  • People
  • Trying
  • Song

• The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

  

  Sean O'Casey
  • Happiness
  • Secret
  • Monotony

• Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like pipes, now closes soft in sleep: And one is of an old half-witted sheep Which bleats articulate monotony, And indicates that two and one are three, That grass is green, lakes damp, and mountains steep And, Wordsworth, both are thine.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Sleep
  • Mountain
  • Pipe

• We pledge to fight 'blue-sky thinking wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.

  

  Gavin Pretor-Pinney
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Monotony

• I am not greedy of money myself, but the monotony of always screwing and paring is more tiresome than the monotony of riches.

  

  Annie French Hector
  • Money
  • Riches
  • Monotony

• I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony.

  

  Noah Wyle
  • Job
  • Guy
  • Monotony

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