“But I acquired the habit of laying my egg and burning myself every five hundred years–and you know how difficult it is… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The primitive Christians perpetually trod on mystic ground, and their minds were exercised by the habits of believing the most extraordinary events — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
When it comes to our everyday habits, it's important to ask: 'Am I putting God first?' — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.” — Donald Riggs Copy Share Image
Heart disease has changed my eating habits, but I still cook bacon for the smell. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on.… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
Lincoln, answering friends who advised him to seek protection against assassination: "If they kill me the next man will be just as… — William Herndon Copy Share Image
Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Our people are willing to work with the government on new technologies. Now, it's a habit; every Estonian looks at it as… — Kersti Kaljulaid Copy Share Image
Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“The teeny-weeny habit of finding constant fault with yourself -- often disguised as a never-ending quest for self-improvement -- gets in the… — Catherine Carrigan Copy Share Image
The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is,… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
During my practice sessions, I had walked all around the rink examining each corner. I make a habit of doing this before… — Josee Chouinard Copy Share Image
In the case of Anathem, most of the research had to do with philosophy and metaphysics. Reading this sort of thing has… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
People are in the habit of classifying life’s activities into those which are mundane and those which are religious. Remember, though, only… — Khurram Murad Copy Share Image
We can't suddenly quit a job and then race to find a form of art that will pay off before the next… — Seth Copy Share Image
Orma moved a pile of books off a stool for me but seated himself directly on another stack. This habit of his… — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits,… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
