Virginia Woolf Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
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There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'
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An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.
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I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.
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I'm not very good at vacationing or relaxing or planning any of that for myself. So I'm in the habit of piggy-backing off of gigs and deciding to stay an extra day.
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Streaming TV shows, movies, and other types of video over the Internet to all manner of devices, once a fringe habit, is now a squarely mainstream practice. Even people still paying for cable or satellite service often also have Netflix or Hulu accounts.
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Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.
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Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
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Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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One gets a bad habit of being unhappy.
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What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.
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I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.
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I work on a TV show I love, I have the opportunity to do movies with actors I respect, and I’m in love with the man I want to spend the rest of my life with, who pushes me and excites me...There’s this fighter in me that kind of needs to be put to rest a little bit. I don’t need to be so tough to protect myself.
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Of all the wars that have taken place wince then, none has endured so long as the conflict between knowledge and belief. For centuries now, knowledge has attempted, unsuccessfully, to supersede belief. But the entire clash stems from a misapprehension of the nature of belief. We can't not believe; and we won't ever know everything. We know this much: knowledge remains an endless advance toward an end point that endlessly recedes.
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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
