A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit. — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet! — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I suggest...that you develop early in life the habit of retiring and arising early. You remember the advice of Ben Franklin: "Early… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
One of the great things about being involved with comics is that those people are devoted to their characters, writers and artists.… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find His mind described in Scripture. It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
the New Englander landed on a stony, barren tract, and a large share of his strength during two centuries has gone to… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
Everything that we see in our daily lives is more or less distorted by acquired habits and this is perhaps more evident… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
When I start to write a song, I initially fall into patterns and creative habits that are familiar, and because they're familiar,… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
We passed law that encouraged consumption through different purchasing habits like, you know, hybrid vehicles. You buy hybrid, you get a tax… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The systems of stereotypes may be the core of our personal tradition, the defenses of our position in society. They are an… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light;… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
According to my daughters, my most irritating habit is asking for cups of tea. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“Every day is a new beginning, the building of a habit. Every action is a step in some direction. There is no… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“A master drives you toward the substance so that you will stop defending and protecting the forms.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Eventually your little choices are going to become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life. — Jim George Copy Share Image
The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Put your attention on happiness by practicing the Happiness Habits each day. — Marci Shimoff Copy Share Image
But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“It was not his habit to dwell on what might have been but what could never be.” — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps. — Saladin Copy Share Image
Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The 10 years of theatre prepared me not only as an actor but also as a human being. It gave me the… — Manoj Bajpayee Copy Share Image
Help to keep the hopes of a bad habit, but there are no bad habit to rely on the help — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
