Habit Quotes
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For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
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Here 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 Hemingway
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The Aristocratic Institutions of England had acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America...in demoralising large classes outside their own special boundaries...in producing a long habit of submission...and in enfeebling by corrupting those who should assail them.
John Bright
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Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..." --Ivan Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.
J. I. Packer
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One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.
Napoleon Hill
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Winning is a habit.
Leo Durocher
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I'll be out having a good time and stick my gum on the side of my cup - I know, it's a horrible habit - and people will steal the cup.
Jenna Jameson
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The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit.
Alice Morse Earle
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That was the stuff of other lives, he was waiting for his to begin. He got in the habit of walking around the trailer and asking aloud, 'Who knows?' He said, 'Who knows?' For no one knew. He meant, anything could happen. A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.
Annie Proulx
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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Virginia Woolf
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The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.
Martin Henderson
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I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things.
Robert Smith
The Cure
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If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good ones.
Umar
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Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.
T. H. White
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I've gotten into the habit of cranking out a set of push-ups before each show to get my blood pumping and find my focus. I worked my way up from eight to 30. That was a real accomplishment.
Christie Brinkley
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I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.
David Nicholls
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When I'm making a movie, I never watch the dailies. I see the movie once and that's it. It's really not about that for me. It's not about the externals. When I'm on a set, I don't want to see it. I want to be subjective in it. That's my habit now.
Lance Henriksen
