Literature 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 PaveseCurious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Agatha ChristieHere 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 HemingwayWinning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vincent T LombardiI 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 MarryatI believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.
Steve IrwinThe habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.
Grenville KleiserA 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 BonaparteOne has to be wary of the fact that memories have a habit of warping themselves into what you want them to be.
David GerroldIt is curious how tyrannical the habit of reasoning is
James Russell LowellI 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 MillerSow 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 ReadeA 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.
AristotleAn unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
W Somerset MaughamReasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
Barbara TuchmanA 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 GibranGenius 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 MoreLaws are never as effective as habits.
Adlai E StevensonIn the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits
Robert HallAny man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking
Albert EinsteinTime spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
Dean AchesonThe creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
Henry MooreA nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit
Gerard Didier ErasmusIn 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 YoakamIt 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 WilliamsHe 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 TrollopeAustralia 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 BoycottThoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
Tryon EdwardsCommon 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 DescartesThe best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
Leo AikmanThe habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.
Walter BagehotA single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
Hosea BallouThere is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William JamesThe habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
Anthony TrollopeAchieve 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 GivensHabits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.
Frank CraneDivorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
Pope Leo XIIIThe habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.
Bruce ArcherMeetings 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 GaulleMy problem is reconciling my gross habits with my net income
Errol FlynnIf 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 BetheMy worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
Billy BoydLove is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
AristotleConsciously 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 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 BenthamVitally 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 ForbesBehavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats.
Douglas BuschI've got this habit of mooning...I was cautioned for mooning in Ireland.
Lisa Scott Lee
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