Men disgust me if they don't have a nice smile, nice lips and nice teeth. They have too many disgusting habits, like scratching themselves all the time.
Jennifer LopezAn unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
W Somerset MaughamDivorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
Pope Leo XIIILove is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
AristotleThere is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William JamesIt is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
Jawaharlal NehruPleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them. (The Habit of Loving)
Doris LessingThe habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
Anthony TrollopeThe habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.
Bruce ArcherThe best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
Leo AikmanThe second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Fedor DostoevskyTo limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves
Claude Arien HelvetiusIt has a lot of sentimental value and I would love to keep it after the run is over [on her nun's habit she wears in the sound of music]
Connie FisherChaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry AdamsAchieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits. [and just hope that those strategies don't fluctuate with time else you have unwanted habits]
Charles GivensThe world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheI am not a politician, and my other habits are good.
Charles Farrar BrowneThings start out as hopes and end up as habits
Lillian HellmanExcess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
W Somerset MaughamThe secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
Gail SheehyMeetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
Dave BarryIt is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Evelyn WaughSow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny. (Attributed)
Charles ReadeIt's still fun to inhabit different characters and play different things, so it's all in that panoply of acting.
Don CheadleIf you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
Andre MauroisA long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas PaineIn the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits
Robert HallThe moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
AristotleI believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.
Steve IrwinLaziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules RenardIt is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.
Tennessee WilliamsBeware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
Holbrook JacksonVitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realise the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
B C ForbesA change in bad habits leads to a change in life.
Jenny CraigI really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
Vaclav HavelIt's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. - 'The Hungarian Horntail,' Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry PotterThe creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
Henry MooreHabits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.
Frank CraneAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
AristotleAny man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking
Albert EinsteinAustralia don't look at it like that. They make winning a good habit in both forms of the game and that's why they've won the last two World Cups and been world champions at Test cricket for the last decade or more
Geoff BoycottHere is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.
Ernest HemingwayHe must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.
Anthony TrollopeThe principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
Jeremy Bentham'I just have no more bad habits to give up.'
Gwyneth PaltrowOn Thursday [when the game of croquet took place] the deputy prime minister was not standing in for the prime minister.
He stands in for him only when he goes on holiday. He went on holiday on Saturday.
This was an away-day for the deputy prime minister's staff, who've had a change of responsibilities [on John Prescott's scandalous playing habits... on the croquet lawn]
Paul ClarkTelevision is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Alfred HitchcockPornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that rules. Science has already habituated us to this microscopics, this excess of the real in its microscopic detail, this voyeurism of exactitude.
Jean BaudrillardBecause psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.
Pearl BuckCurious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Agatha Christie
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