Anna Quindlen Quotes

Familiarity breeds contentment.

Oh, there's nothing like getting used to things.

Fabulous is familiarity.

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.

There 's nothing like being used to a thing.

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.

Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.

I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.

That's the problem, we do get used to things.

Of all the things a body loves, predictability is one of them.

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

I'm a person who likes habit and knowing what my job is.

I'm a creature of comfort.

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.

I like routine.

I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been.

When I'm home, I go back to the same routine that I've had since I was a kid.

If it means being settled and content, getting older can be a relief.

I'm someone who likes routine.

Artistically I'm curious. But in life? No. I can go to a restaurant and order the same thing for 10 years.

Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.

No one should let themselves get used to anything.