No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human beast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.
Sigmund FreudMy worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
Billy BoydOne has to be wary of the fact that memories have a habit of warping themselves into what you want them to be.
David GerroldChoose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Francis BaconWhy should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
William JamesIf we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
Hans BetheLiterature 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 PaveseMeetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
Dave BarryChina is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese
Charles De GaulleThe country habit has me by the heart,
For he's bewitched for ever who has seen,
Not with his eyes but with his vision, Spring
Flow down the woods and stipple leaves with sun.
Victoria (Vita) Sackville-WestI 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 MarryatThe habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.
Walter BagehotThe second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Fedor DostoevskyHabit is the deepest law of human nature.
Thomas CarlyleIt's still fun to inhabit different characters and play different things, so it's all in that panoply of acting.
Don CheadleLove is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
AristotleI believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.
Steve IrwinThe 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 BenthamReasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
Barbara TuchmanThoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
Tyron EdwardsIn the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits
Robert Hall'I just have no more bad habits to give up.'
Gwyneth PaltrowVitally 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 long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas PaineThe 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.
AristotleAchieve 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 GivensI am not a politician, and my other habits are good.
Charles Farrar BrowneOnce you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Vincent T LombardiI guess it's better than having a crack habit - on having an internet addiction!
Mark HamiltonI never criticise referees and I'm not going to change a habit for that prat.
Ron AtkinsonThe 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 GoetheCommon 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 DescartesOn 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 ClarkThe 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 SheehyThis 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 Goose"He was a sex junkie with an insatiable habit."
Gay TaleseCocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.
Tallulah BankheadHere 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 HemingwayPornography 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 BuckHabits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.
Frank CraneSalamander: 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 BierceHow people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
Jack NicklausWinning is a habit.
Leo DurocherWinners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.
Ed ForemanWith the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
Anthony StorrHabit 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 WhartonGenius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
Hannah MoreIn the past few years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.
Dwight YoakamThis England side [2004-5] have a different feel to them. They have a bit of a winning habit and winning culture which they haven't had for a while.
Ricky Ponting
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