Habit Quotes
-
It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: "If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort," she had said, "so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?
-
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
-
Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.
-
I was a mindless eater. I ate for comfort. I also ate out of boredom and habit.
-
I come from an army background, and everyone at my home has a habit of getting up early. I continue this habit even today.
-
I never have any clothes to go out in, because I always just buy for work. I don't know why. Habit.
-
Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulations, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you...
-
The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.
-
Male homosexuals have seduced and abused millions of underage boys. Their unclean sexual habits and ultra-promiscuous lifestyle have resulted in spreading the worst communicable plague in this century, the specter of AIDS, which has not only killed millions of their own, but also millions of others, including tens of thousands who contracted the virus from blood transfusions.
-
If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.
-
This is a bit more expensive than my previous turbo-Ferrari habit, but not too bad.
-
General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.
-
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.
-
My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.
-
Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm going to break this bad habit or I'm going to pursue this dream or I'm going to treat my spouse better.
-
They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.
-
Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
-
People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.
-
To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.
-
Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
-
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
-
I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.
-
No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
-
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.
