How small we humans are. All our scrambling around, trying to buttress ourselves against death. All our efforts to insulate ourselves against… — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
“Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in… — William James Copy Share Image
Relationships have a nasty habit of reversing themselves; whatever has been done to you in a previous involvement you'll do to the… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
“Security was now a thing of the past though it took a conscious effort to remember it; with no enemy in all… — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
If you want better behavior from bankers, then make their financial incentives more like those in the hedge-fund world - where managers… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
If people were in the habit of refering to 'King George's council, Winston and his gang,' it would go a long way… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are graced with a greater capacity for direct contact with our own higher power than most of us are in the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Fader: There is a sequence in how people buy things. One important driver of this sequencing may be “licensing” behavior. If shoppers… — Herb Sorensen Copy Share Image
“now. If any habits ever had time to fix upon her, they would have operated here. Habits are peculiar things. They will… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Happy couples make it a habbit to refocus. Because it's quite normal to be distracted. So they talk. They get away for… — Bo Sanchez Copy Share Image
Increased physical activity during the school day can help children's attention, classroom behavior, and achievement test scores. Meanwhile, the decline of play… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
Watch your thoughts, as they become your words. Watch your words, as they become your actions. Watch your actions, as they become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nothing of the sort. I knew you came from Afghanistan. From long habit the train of thoughts ran so swiftly through my… — Doyle, Arthur Conan Copy Share Image
“Building a culture is neither a one-time injection nor a sheep dip; it requires connection to the deep layers of the culture—it… — Liz Wiseman Copy Share Image
Enduring habits I hate… Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Some people just need a routine, and refuse to accept the consequences of predictability. In my experience, these people tend to get… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“People pushed by force of habit, pushed for the pure pleasure of pushing, and they would go on pushing until you showed… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I had a horrible life habit that I had to change. And I think it's very true, the later we make decisions… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I think the key difference between the web and print medium is, on the web or any digital medium, you're dealing with… — Khoi Vinh Copy Share Image
Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader… — John Updike Copy Share Image
... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I don't feel any pressure to joke about #MeToo - in fact, I'd say you shouldn't, because it's a great movement that… — Joel McHale Copy Share Image
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“I joke, mademoiselle," he said, "and I laugh. But there are some things that are no joke. There are things that my… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I'll tell you my routine - it's really exciting. I feed, I burp, I change diapers, I pump. And then I have… — Marcia Cross Copy Share Image
I used to get so comfortable running the hurdles, I was just like a ballet dancer going out there and going through… — Rod Milburn Copy Share Image
“They did the whole lingering gaze thing, following it with the glancing-away, smiling-knowingly routine. She felt vivacious, a feeling she remembered, she… — Freya North Copy Share Image
May be you can never understand the languages of different people, but you can always understand them with their behaviour... — Rohit Padhra Copy Share Image
Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
There's a lot of middle school behavior in Washington, D.C. I look at that and I say, 'I've seen that before,' it… — James Lankford Copy Share Image
For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
My father wanted to instill the work ethic. And, because he knew if you don't learn to work to be more productive… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
“Vexed I am Of late with passions of some difference, Conceptions only proper to myself, Which gives some soil, perhaps, to my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is only when you're lying to yourself or hating some aspect of yourself that you'll get an emotional charge from someone… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
“And so liberalism had become a habit of Stepan Arkadyevitch's, and he liked his newspaper, as he did his cigar after dinner,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I am in the habit, like most British people, of holding the door open for people. But in the U.S., people don't… — Raza Jaffrey Copy Share Image
We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work, is not to get persons to join the church… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
“All I know is that the hours are long... and constrain us to beguile them with proceedings which ... may at first… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
