It 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 habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.
Grenville KleiserMoral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
PlutarchThe second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Fedor DostoevskyMan has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
Alistair CookeGenius 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 MorePleasure 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 LessingVitally 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 ForbesWinners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.
Ed ForemanYouth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit
Duc De La RochefoucauldThe best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
Leo AikmanBeware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
Holbrook JacksonA nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit
Gerard Didier ErasmusNo 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 FreudWhy does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
Barbra StreisandNothing is stronger than habit.
OvidSow 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 curious how tyrannical the habit of reasoning is
James Russell LowellOnce you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Vincent T LombardiTime spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
Dean AchesonChina is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese
Charles De GaulleThe conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
Edward BernaysExcess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
W Somerset MaughamTo 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 HelvetiusI've got this habit of mooning...I was cautioned for mooning in Ireland.
Lisa Scott LeeA long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas PaineI am not a politician, and my other habits are good.
Charles Farrar BrowneLove is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
AristotleWith the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
Anthony StorrIn 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 YoakamCharacter is simply habit long continued.
PlutarchThe habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.
Bruce ArcherConsciously 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 GandhiWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
AristotleGenius 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 MoreThoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
Tryon EdwardsIt'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 PotterAfter 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 MantleCommon 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 DescartesOur own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Henry MillerAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
AristotleMen 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 LopezIt's still fun to inhabit different characters and play different things, so it's all in that panoply of acting.
Don CheadleThe demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.
Matt BluntI'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 GeldofThis 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 PontingEach year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin FranklinPhilosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
Gilbert RyleAnd .I never said I disliked Paul's playing; I just disliked Paul as a young man that had some crazy habits.
Dave BrubeckThe 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-West
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