“Smoking was a bad habit, yes. But he looked so good doing it." - The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer” — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it. — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real. — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing. — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
When was the last time you wrote a thank you note? When was the last time you went beyond a mechanical "thank… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
And as I recall, you told me to shut up. (Acheron) I’m an asshole. I admit it. I’ve been going to weekly… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
We easily fall into the habit of accepting compressed statements which save us from the trouble of thinking. Thus arises what I… — Susan Stebbing Copy Share Image
The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I made a habit always to hear the Indians; and although they very often lie to me, I do not show them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Low income is related to poorer housing, poorer diet, fewer social amenities, worse working conditions. (...) After adjustment for age, sex, race,… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
“To compensate a little for the treachery and weakness of my memory, so extreme that it has happened to me more than… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We're worn into grooves by Time-by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second rate… — Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr Copy Share Image
The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic… — William Blaikie Copy Share Image
“self-control is not genetic or fixed, but rather a skill one can develop and improve with practice.8 Baumeister suggests many strategies for… — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table. — Patrick White Copy Share Image
I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop… — Yulia Tymoshenko Copy Share Image
The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
Don't try Do Make A Habit of spending less time with people that question you believing in yourself. That tell you it's… — Andrew Julesstar Copy Share Image
Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything. — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher. — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
People change their habits. I know Americans who don't go to Paris because they think it is too dangerous. — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image