This 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 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-WestReasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
Barbara TuchmanPornography 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 BaudrillardIn 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 YoakamI never criticise referees and I'm not going to change a habit for that prat.
Ron Atkinson'I just have no more bad habits to give up.'
Gwyneth PaltrowIt's still fun to inhabit different characters and play different things, so it's all in that panoply of acting.
Don CheadleGenius 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 MoreGrowing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre MauroisTo 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 HelvetiusThe demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.
Matt BluntA long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas PaineI 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 MarryatWhy 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 JamesIt is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Evelyn WaughYouth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit
Duc De La RochefoucauldLove is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
AristotleThe habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.
Bruce ArcherWinning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vincent T LombardiWinning is a habit.
Leo DurocherIt 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 WilliamsLove is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter UstinovTime spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
Dean AchesonThe 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 SheehyWinners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.
Ed ForemanAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
AristotleMeetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
Dave BarryI'm dead annoyed that I'm finding it so difficult to stop. But I am getting there [on kicking smoking habit]
Kerry KatonaA single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
Hosea BallouThis 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 TaleseLaws are never as effective as habits.
Adlai E StevensonThe 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 BenthamThe second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Fedor DostoevskyAchieve 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 GivensSmall habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio)
Hannah MoreChains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren BuffettThe 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.
AristotleLiterature 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 PaveseAn unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
W Somerset MaughamHabit 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 WhartonFear 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.
TacitusConsciously 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 GandhiThe best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
Leo AikmanI believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.
Steve IrwinMen 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 LopezOn 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 ClarkChoose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Francis BaconI 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 Darrian
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