Why 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 JamesMen 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 LopezEach year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin FranklinA nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit
Gerard Didier ErasmusIt'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 PotterA 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 BonaparteConsciously 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 GandhiChaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry AdamsReasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
Barbara TuchmanTelevision is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Alfred HitchcockOnce you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Vincent T LombardiNothing is stronger than habit.
OvidRigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Virginia WoolfIt has a lot of sentimental value and I would love to keep it after the run is over [on her nun's habit she wears in the sound of music]
Connie FisherWinning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vincent T LombardiThe best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
Leo AikmanI 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 MillerMoral 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.
PlutarchBehavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats.
Douglas BuschTo 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'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 GeldofWith the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
Anthony StorrHere 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 HemingwayNo 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 problem is reconciling my gross habits with my net income
Errol FlynnWhy does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
Barbra StreisandSalamander: 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 BierceHabits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.
Frank CraneIt is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Evelyn WaughThe habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.
Bruce ArcherThe 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.
Aristotle"He was a sex junkie with an insatiable habit."
Gay TaleseLove is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
AristotleFear 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.
TacitusThis 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 PontingExcess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
W Somerset MaughamPhilosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
Gilbert RyleSmall habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio)
Hannah MoreThe conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
Edward BernaysBeware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
Holbrook JacksonOne has to be wary of the fact that memories have a habit of warping themselves into what you want them to be.
David GerroldAn unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
W Somerset MaughamHow 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 NicklausAchieve 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 GivensA 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 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 SheehyA change in bad habits leads to a change in life.
Jenny CraigA single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
Hosea BallouIt's still fun to inhabit different characters and play different things, so it's all in that panoply of acting.
Don CheadleThis 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
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