Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry AdamsThe habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
Anthony TrollopeBehavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats.
Douglas BuschHabit is the deepest law of human nature.
Thomas CarlyleMy problem is reconciling my gross habits with my net income
Errol FlynnOur own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Henry 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 MantleAnd .I never said I disliked Paul's playing; I just disliked Paul as a young man that had some crazy habits.
Dave BrubeckMen 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 LopezUltimately 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 MailerFear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
TacitusLaziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules RenardA long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas PaineChina is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese
Charles De GaulleCommon 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 DescartesA 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 BonaparteA habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.
Frank A ClarkHe 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 TrollopeYouth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit
Duc De La RochefoucauldEach year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin FranklinDivorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
Pope Leo XIIIWinning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vincent T LombardiExcess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
W Somerset MaughamThe habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.
Bruce ArcherTelevision is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Alfred HitchcockHabit 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 WhartonThis 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 PontingThe second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Fedor DostoevskyTime spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
Dean AchesonThoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
Tryon EdwardsSmall habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio)
Hannah MoreIt'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 PotterMeetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
Dave BarryUnprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward GibbonA large part of Christian virtue consists in right habits.
William PaleyIf 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 BetheCurious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Agatha ChristieThe conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
Edward BernaysReasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
Barbara TuchmanTo 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 HelvetiusA friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Kahlil GibranThe creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
Henry MooreThe 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 SheehyI am not a politician, and my other habits are good.
Charles Farrar BrowneI 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 MillerNothing is stronger than habit.
OvidIt 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 WilliamsHere 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 HemingwayCharacter is simply habit long continued.
PlutarchHabits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.
Frank Crane
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