Rut Quotes

#1. Jesus Christ was the original rock'n'roll star. He gave people reasons to live in the rut they were living in. He was the first man to say, "You don't have to have human sacrifices, 'cause human sacrifices hurt somebody, you know?" Just believe in the spirit that is within you.

Ozzy Osbourne

#2. Do you feel bored and stuck in a rut? Is work drudgery? If so, you are spending far too much time bemoaning your fate and how the universe is not cooperating with your desires. Be present with and in your current situation.

Srikumar Rao

#3. That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.

Laura Osnes

#4. A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.

Laurence J. Peter

#5. I must break out ...
... start a new life ...
been here for years ...
might be getting into a rut ...
something a bit more exciting ...
more adventurous ...
something with more of a challenge ...
There's not much opportunity for self-advancement in toilets ...

Raymond Briggs

#6. If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life.

Charles Horton Cooley

#7. A rut ... is little more than a coffin with the ends kicked out.

James Hunter

#8. You've got to try and take things to the next level, or you'll just get stuck in a rut.

Ozzy Osbourne

#9. Someone once told me the difference between a rut and a grave is this: a rut has a little more room to move around. When I find myself in a rut, I know I better get out fast before it becomes a grave.

Regina Brett

#10. I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It's like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.

Brad Meltzer

#11. It's not him who's disturbed. But he likes to disturb others
to shake them out of their rut.

Jostein Gaarder

#12. Welfare has destroyed the African-American family by telling young black women that husbands and fathers are unnecessary and obsolete. ... We have incentivized fornication rather than marriage, and it's no wonder we are now awash in the disastrous social consequences of people who rut like rabbits.

Bryan Fischer

#13. You know, it was uncomfortable doing the same thing. I don't like a rut.

Ruben Blades

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

Malin Akerman

#15. When we are stuck in a rut we are being invited to grow and expand.

Dana Arcuri

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

Joyce Meyer

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

Tim LaHaye

#18. I think many of us live in a rut. Stuck in a groove we can't get out of, whether it's our job, family drama or the little frustrations of everyday life.

Brian Pinkerton

#19. And who you are isn't already cast in everyone's eyes. No one knows what to expect from you. Some would say society's in a rut. Stagnant. By virtue of being new, you have the power to shake us out of that.

Jodi Meadows

#20. 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

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

Tom Perrotta

#22. I guess "rut" isn't the right word. A rut is something you subconsciously want to get out of. The thing is, when I admitted it to myself, I was happy. Happy happy happy. And that's a good thing.

Sean Kennedy

#23. I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

Roald Dahl

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

Nora Roberts

#25. 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

#26. He's in a rut. Gehringer goes two for five on opening day and stays that way all season.

Lefty Gomez

#27. We're both in a rut. And when two people have the different open wounds, they can relate and try to heal each other. Maybe it'll be the same for Kayla and me. It'll be a long a run, but we might as well try.

Simi Sunny

#28. I understand that the rule of fashion is to change, even as a successful designer - you do not want to be stuck in the same rut.

Donatella Versace

#29. Occasionally, if I'm in a rut, I find changing location helps.

Matt Mullenweg

#30. First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context.

Elizabeth Bowen

#31. I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able.

Maxfield Parrish

#32. The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.

John Dewey

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

Mason Cooley

#34. A wife is meant to be cherished and to be treated with a gentle hand, while a mistress is a convenient cunt to rut in.

Sylvia Day

#35. There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

Martin Scorsese

#36. Let's get busy. Get up! Stop living an average life. Stop living in a rut. Get ready for a new way to walk and talk. Taller, louder, prouder and thoroughly convinced that you have enough hope in your life to give some away.

J. Loren Norris

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

Levon Helm

#38. If you can transcend from the dark rut of disempowered thinking to the bright light of an empowered agreement with reality, you will see opportunities not barriers. You will see the finish line, not the hurdles.

Steve Maraboli

#39. The act is a vessel that can hold a continuum of human intentions - a sweet, holy song of flesh and love, the simple, mindless rut of youth, or the darkest violation. It encompasses what we bring to it. Too often people fill it with shame.

Rhonda Riley

#40. Rut, routine, robotic. These are the three R's of adult-hood. Wake up, eat, go to work, eat, work more, come home, eat, sleep, and repeat every day until we all reach retirement, or death.

Craig R. Key

#41. 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

#42. When I feel like I'm in a rut, I remember it's the little things in life that are important, like riding a bike with a friend or eating ice cream with my baby niece.

Michelle Kwan

#43. the fact is that the only difference between a rut and a grave is about five feet.

Claire Middleton

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

Twyla Tharp

#45. - Beclouded The sky is low, the clouds are mean, A travelling flake of snow Across a barn or through a rut Debates if it will go. A narrow wind complains all day How some one treated him; Nature, like us, is sometimes caught Without her diadem.

William Wordsworth

#46. The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

Ellen Glasgow

#47. Are we willing to shun vain repetition and keep our prayers out of an unchallenging rut by asking God to make us more sensitive to our own sin?

John Pereira

#48. Avoid the traffic by using one of the park's shuttle buses and view the elk rut with a park ranger.

Dave Barry

#49. Every year I try to grow as a player and not get stuck in a rut. I try to improve my game in every way possible. But that trait is not something I've worked on, it's part of me.

Lionel Messi

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

James A. Garfield

#51. I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.

James A. Garfield

#52. Gastronomic boredom leads to lots of unhealthy eating. If you don't make improvisation and experimentation part of your eating life, you are sure to find yourself in an eating rut.

Mireille Guiliano

#53. Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That's why I like short films, too; I love doing readings, audio books, working with young filmmakers; anything that keeps you from getting blase about yourself or in a rut.

Campbell Scott

#54. Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.

Charles H. Townes

#55. You have to remember the band played from 1960 to 1965, every night. You get into a rut playing nightclubs every night, and you didn't want to run it into the ground.

Rick Danko

#56. 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

#57. 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

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

Earl Nightingale

#59. What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

Mark Twain

#60. My closet is a sea of black pants, skirts, tops, and bags, so it's great to come across a brand that makes me want to break out of my fashion rut! The Sequence Collection is an accessories line that is all about color, from funky woven bracelets to brightly-patterned bags.

Amanda Hearst

#61. A comfortable rut and a grave are very much alike. The only real difference is the dimensions.

Ralph Compton

#62. Those movies sure got me into a rut.

Elvis Presley

#63. It's easy to fall into a funk and not want to exercise, or to really want that second piece of chocolate cake. I have to say, I fight against those feelings all year. But I try not to let myself sit in a rut like that.

Jojo

#64. He and Harmony had been wed a week now, and still the briefest glance at his wife awakened the savage in him. The smallest movement or casual touch made him want to rip off her clothes and press her back on the table and rut on her wildly. His mother would not have approved.

Annabel Joseph

#65. We continue to learn or we dig a rut and furnish it.

Stephen King

#66. Well, that's what I still think, but I am in a rut at work--I hate my job,' I said, allowing my emotions to find words.

Luke Lively

#67. There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

Christine Lavin

#68. You can be in the same rut for so long, and then, seemingly out of nowhere, everything changes and you remember what the point is. The point, of course, is love. To love someone, to be loved by someone: that is the point.

Swan Huntley

#69. A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.

Laurie Anderson

#70. Never not dare to hang yourself. That's the only way you grow in your profession. You must continually attempt things that you think are beyond you, or you get into a complete rut.

Charles Laughton

#71. 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

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

Kin Hubbard

#73. It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

John Galsworthy

#74. Listen, Baroqueheat ... We live too long ... to stay in the same rut forever.

Minari Endou

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

Vance Havner

#76. 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

#77. Mainly, what I like to do is keep things varied and not get in a rut, not tell the same stories over and over.

Kurt Busiek

#78. 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

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

James Broughton

#80. Get out of that comfortable rut.

Denis Waitley

#81. The first act is the easiest to plot. The second act is always the hardest to plot. Generally a good, you know, sometimes the third act can be difficult because you can get into a rut in the third act - everybody runs to their Corvette, has a chase, and you catch the bad guy.

Stephen J. Cannell

#82. We have a choice to move ahead or allow ourselves to stay stuck in a rut.

Lisa A. Mininni

#83. One needs to constantly read up, practice and work, irrespective of your profession. If I feel as an actor that I know everything, then how will I to grow? How will I improve? I'll be stuck in a rut, and eventually I'll grow complacent.

Sonam Kapoor

#84. She was a rut in the road. Plenty of life beneath the surface but it was kept beaten down by the wheels.

Zora Neale Hurston

#85. 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

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

Sylvia Plath

#87. The difference between a grave and a rut are the dimensions.

Dale Carnegie

#88. In a mask we are faceless and classless, ageless and anonymous. Masks reveal the primal urge to behave like the beast in rut that leaps on the stranger or waits in the penumbra to be leapt upon.

Chloe Thurlow

#89. When you don't feel healthy, stop the excuses and do something. Just go outside, walk, breathe. Life's too short to fall into a rut. You are in charge of you - treat yourself well, and it'll show.

Jessica Stroup

#90. At those times I got into ... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.

Val Guest

#91. You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.

Winston Churchill

#92. I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut.

Josh Lucas

#93. We call it "getting into a rut," which means that we accept our fate because we form the habit of daily routine, a habit that finally becomes so strong we cease to try to throw it off.

Napoleon Hill

#94. I get so fed up with the making of an album taking over my life - it's all I can think about or talk about. You find yourself in a rut and lacking inspiration and it's hard to get out of that because I'm working alone in the studio.

Imogen Heap

#95. The point is to keep trying new things, meeting new people, visiting new places. Once you settle into a rut, no matter how fun that rut may seem, you stagnate. You might as well be dead.

Lenore Appelhans

#96. The world of sexuality it finds is not entirely mature and pure, it is not human enough, only virile, rut, intoxication, restlessness, and weighed down by the old prejudices and arrogance with which men have disfigured and overburdened love.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Robin Williams

#98. One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.

Matt Dillon

#99. To keeping silence I resigned My friends would think I was a nut Turning water into wine Open doors would soon be shut So I went from day to day Though my life was in a rut 'Til I thought of what I'd say Which connection I should cut

Peter Gabriel

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

Ruth Gordon