The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Fedor DostoevskyUltimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
Norman Mailer'I just have no more bad habits to give up.'
Gwyneth PaltrowThe 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 GoetheReasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
Barbara TuchmanIt is curious how tyrannical the habit of reasoning is
James Russell LowellI am not a politician, and my other habits are good.
Charles Farrar BrowneChina is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese
Charles De GaulleA well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits
Napoleon BonaparteChoose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Francis BaconMy problem is reconciling my gross habits with my net income
Errol FlynnAny man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking
Albert EinsteinEach year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin FranklinCommon sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Rene DescartesCurious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Agatha ChristieThe best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
Leo AikmanChains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren BuffettWhy does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
Barbra StreisandPornography 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 BaudrillardBehavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats.
Douglas BuschIt's still fun to inhabit different characters and play different things, so it's all in that panoply of acting.
Don CheadleA large part of Christian virtue consists in right habits.
William PaleyLove is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter UstinovWith the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
Anthony StorrThis is about shifting habits and attitudes and asking people to take responsibility for what is in their coffee cup. The bottom line is that if farmers don’t get a fair price for their coffee they will starve.
Claire GooseIt 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 WilliamsThe creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
Henry Moore"He was a sex junkie with an insatiable habit."
Gay TaleseRigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Virginia WoolfI 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 HavelIf 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 MauroisWinners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.
Ed ForemanThe habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.
Bruce ArcherMen 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 LopezSow 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 is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Evelyn WaughA nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit
Gerard Didier ErasmusIn the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits
Robert HallLiterature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: 'You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.'
Cesare PaveseBeware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
Holbrook JacksonIt 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 FisherWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
AristotleI'm dead annoyed that I'm finding it so difficult to stop. But I am getting there [on kicking smoking habit]
Kerry KatonaI've got this habit of mooning...I was cautioned for mooning in Ireland.
Lisa Scott LeeAnd .I never said I disliked Paul's playing; I just disliked Paul as a young man that had some crazy habits.
Dave BrubeckI don't think I'm an obsessive dieter, but I do maintain good eating habits that are as much as part of me as brushing my teeth in the morning.
Raquel DarrianI am about to write a very curious history, as the reader will agree with me when he has read this book. We have more than one narrative of people being cast away upon desolate islands, and being left to their own resources, and no works are perhaps read with more interest; but I believe I am the first instance of a boy being left alone upon an uninhabited island. Such was, however, the case; and now I shall tell my own story
Frederick MarryatA habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.
Frank A ClarkI'm not saying that someone like chunky Charlotte Church is a good role model either, because she isn't. She promotes bad eating habits.
Peaches GeldofPhilosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
Gilbert Ryle
Pick another category
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