Top 61 Quotes About Ruts: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Ruts

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

Tom Brown Jr.

#2. Tears slid; tears fell; tears, like diamonds, collecting powder in the ruts of her cherry blossom cheeks.

Virginia Woolf

#3. I've definitely been in ruts, and I think having some kind of perseverance is important.

Paul Dano

#4. We have no idea what lies ahead or how God will open doors of potentiality when we consciously choose to get out of the ruts we're in and start moving down new paths about which we can be excited
even passionate.

Luci Swindoll

#5. I've read the articles that show up in all the women's magazines about marital ruts and turning the heat up in your marriage. They don't tell you anything real. They don't have any answers.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

Kenneth Goldsmith

#7. Perhaps Dexter's dutiful but uninspired brain pictured him as Sherlock Holmes, able to examine the wheel ruts and deduce that a left-handed hunchback with red hair and a limp had gone down the road carrying a Cuban cigar and a ukulele. I would find no clues, not that it mattered.

Jeff Lindsay

#8. Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

Zig Ziglar

#9. POMPEII Note the ruts in roadway worn by chariot wheels.

H.G.Wells

#10. I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them.

Steve Vai

#11. He shrugged, facing the fire. But we are all creatures of habit. It is far too easy to stay in the familiar ruts we dig for ourselves.

Patrick Rothfuss

#12. Don't forget:
Ruts aren't that much different ...
from graves.

John-Talmage Mathis

#13. Where ruts have not yet been worn, it requires less effort to stay out of them.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#14. Come out into the broad light of day, come out from the little narrow paths, for how can the infinite soul rest content to live and die in small ruts?

Swami Vivekananda

#15. Take those road hazards- the potholes, ruts, detours, and all the rest- as evidence that you were on the right route. It's when you find yourself on that big, broad, easy road that you ought to worry.

Joni Eareckson Tada

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

Ruth Gordon

#17. Workers develop routines when they do the same job for a while. They lose their edge, falling into habits not just in what they do but in how they think. Habits turn into routines. Routines into ruts.

Robert J Kriegel

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

Doug Larson

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

Ned Vizzini

#20. People don't have Guts to leave their Ruts because of their 'Buts'-RVM

R.v.m.

#21. Taxi September along Jessore Road Oxcart skeletons drag charcoal load past watery fields thru rain flood ruts Dung cakes on treetrunks, plastic-roof huts Wet processions Families walk Stunted boys big heads don't talk Look bony skulls & silent round eyes Starving black angels in human disguise.

Allen Ginsberg

#22. He was bald-headed except for a little fringe of rust-colored hair and his face was nearly the same color as the unpaved roads and washed like them with ruts and gullys.

Flannery O'Connor

#23. Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Bob Marley

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

Mongo Beti

#25. All patched up out of parts and lowslung and bumping over the ruts. Filled with old lanky country boys with long cocks and big feet.

Cormac McCarthy

#26. He could feel his father's history like ruts worn deep in the road.

Ari Berk

#27. An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#28. Sometimes chaos is the very thing that deliberately shakes up our neatly ordered world's in order to get us out of the neatly ordered ruts that have kept us stuck.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#29. The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.

Henry Rollins

#30. We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.

Twyla Tharp

#31. It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Robert H. Schuller

#32. I want pure colors, melting clouds, accurately drawn details, a sunburst above a receding road with the light reflected in furrows and ruts, after rain. And no girls ... There is one subject which I am emphatically opposed to: any kind of representation of a little girl.

Vladimir Nabokov

#33. 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 Harper

#34. All extremes are dangerous. It is best to keep in the middle of the road, in the common ruts, however muddy.

Virginia Woolf

#35. We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences

William Osler

#36. No one ever truly arrives! We just nudge each other along muddy ruts of suffering, occasionally peeking over the edges of our ruts in search of a better way...

Anya Ulinich

#37. The key to having "more than enough time" is to relax. Time is change, therefore I have more time per clock-hour when i am flexible. Rigid control means less time because less change. I can lengthen my life by saying out of doctrines and ruts.

Hugh Prather

#38. The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

M. Scott Peck

#39. 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.

Leo Tolstoy

#40. Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.

James P. Hogan

#41. There's nothing like a Harley-Davidson for getting around mud holes, rocks, and wagon ruts on dirt roads - or for making an impression on girls.

Olive Ann Burns

#42. 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

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

Kin Hubbard

#44. 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

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

James Broughton

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

Robin Williams

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

Guy Finley

#48. Get out of your rut and into the groove ...

Ray Wylie Hubbard

#49. 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

#50. It's time for us to rise up, get out of the rut and routine, and begin to take our Christian faith seriously.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

Bruce McCulloch

#52. A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out.

Earl Nightingale

#53. 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.

Cate Blanchett

#54. 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.

Twyla Tharp