Undramatic Quotes

#1. Building cultures of peace is long-haul work, undramatic and unheralded, and often infinitely tedious, and most of the people doing it probably don't even think of themselves as practitioners of nonviolence. Maybe it's time they did.

Carol Lee Flinders

#2. Mailbox scenes are the dramatic moments of our undramatic life.

Wallace Stegner

#3. The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.

Benjamin Spock

#4. Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, that pursuit must go on.
[Address before the United Nations, September 20 1963]

John F. Kennedy

#5. We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.

Ken Follett

#6. True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

Arthur Ashe

#7. Small things done consistently, though undramatic, yield more than the large and sporadic.

Stephen Mansfield

#8. What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.

Abraham Maslow

#9. Life means nothing to you, at least that's what they say. But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.

Ray Davies

#10. I was pretty sure if I tried to sing, all I would cause was an avalanche.

Rick Riordan

#11. Don't worry about how things are. Watch where they are headed.

Fred Green

#12. Synchronicity, it is like a collaboration with fate. All of that becomes the norm when the EGO (edge God out) is no longer the driving force in your life.

Wayne W. Dyer

#13. Of course the Silicon Valley is unique and Berlin is not yet comparable. But of all the different cities that are building a startup infrastructure, Berlin is the one with the most similar energy.

Mark Zuckerberg

#14. Instead, she found her argument in the "doctrine of necessity," an idea established in common law that in certain limited circumstances, which no parliament would ever care to define, it was permissible to break the criminal law to prevent a greater evil.

Ian McEwan

#15. Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters.
But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone.

Laini Taylor

#16. I am a . . . solitary . . . man, he said. 'I do not suffer fools gladly, and I prefer to spend my time alone with a book and a decanter of brandy.

Andy Lane

#17. How could I close you out when I never let you in?

Kresley Cole

#18. The world is full of horror. Our imaginations struggle to keep up. It would be a poor life without imagining. I'm not sure we can have any salvation, in fact, without imagining.

Steve Rasnic Tem

#19. One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.

John James Cowperthwaite