Quotes of Mundane - somelinesforyou

“ There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things. ”

- Yuan Wu

“ Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. ”

- General Colin Powell

“ Well, it's a very mundane answer I'm afraid, nothing to do with Eric Clapton or born again religions or anything like that. ”

- Jack Bruce

“ Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book. ”

- Geoffrey Fisher

“ Spirituality is the sacred center of which all life comes, including Mondays and Tuesdays and rainy Saturday afternoons in all their mundane and glorious details. ”

- Christina Baldwin

“ To be caught up in the nickel-dime, day-to-day, mundane affairs of everyday life is to lose sight of what life is intended to be. ”

- J. A. Kurtnacker Jr.

“ Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead… ”

- Stephen King

“ A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten. ”

- David Mamet

“ I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart. ”

- Martin Luther

“ Pregnant women! They had that weird frisson, an aura of magic that combined awkwardly with an earthy sense of duty. Mundane, because they were nothing unique on the suburban streets; ethereal because their attention was ever somewhere else. Whatever you said was trivial… ”

- Ruth Morgan
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