A 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 BonaparteIt 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 FisherI 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 DarrianRigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Virginia WoolfThe habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.
Bruce ArcherA nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit
Gerard Didier ErasmusBecause 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 BuckMen 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 LopezUnprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward GibbonThe habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
Anthony TrollopePleasure 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 LessingA habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.
Frank A ClarkLaziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules RenardI 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 MarryatAny man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking
Albert EinsteinPaul Jewell's sides are always hard to break down, although Manchester United have a habit of breaking his sides down pretty easily [hmm... what an insightful quote!]
Charlie NicholasSmall habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio)
Hannah MoreWinners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.
Ed ForemanI'm dead annoyed that I'm finding it so difficult to stop. But I am getting there [on kicking smoking habit]
Kerry KatonaI'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 GeldofSalamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.
Ambrose BierceUltimately 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 MailerIt'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 PotterA large part of Christian virtue consists in right habits.
William PaleyMan has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
Alistair CookeMy worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
Billy BoydOur own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Henry MillerThe second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Fedor DostoevskyThings start out as hopes and end up as habits
Lillian HellmanCommon 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 DescartesChains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren BuffettAchieve 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 GivensNothing is stronger than habit.
OvidThe habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.
Walter BagehotAustralia 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 HemingwayIt's still fun to inhabit different characters and play different things, so it's all in that panoply of acting.
Don CheadleOne has to be wary of the fact that memories have a habit of warping themselves into what you want them to be.
David GerroldI believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.
Steve Irwin"He was a sex junkie with an insatiable habit."
Gay TaleseAn unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
W Somerset MaughamThere is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William JamesSow 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 ReadeI still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week, I attend estate auctions and make insulting, low-ball bids for prized heirlooms until I'm asked to leave.
Dennis MillerAfter I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
Mickey MantleThe creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
Henry MooreThe demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.
Matt BluntGrowing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre MauroisConsciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
Mahatma GandhiHabit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
Edith Wharton
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