Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions,… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
“I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Our troops should not conform to customs that represent the marginalization of people and are incongruent with our fundamental values. — Martha McSally Copy Share Image
Vegetables when not sufficiently cooked are know to be so exceedingly unwholesome and indigestible, that the custom of serving them 'crisp' should… — Eliza Acton Copy Share Image
Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It's not an easy option. The essence of travel is letting go of habit and prejudice and relishing the unfamiliar. Food you've… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Custom developed digital weapons, cyber weapons nowadays typically chain together a number of zero-day exploits that are targeted against the specific site,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Occasionally, I will come across something that has lost its label over the years - maybe the client didn't want to declare… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
I’ve played on literally every brand of US drums out there, and I’ve finally found my home. I’ve been looking for drums… — Tre Cool Copy Share Image
This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Some of the strongest resistance to necessary change is the result of what Jim O'Toole has so aptly characterized as "the ideology… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
What they have implanted here, which is really a 'gringo' custom, is terrorism. They disguise children as witches and wizards, that is… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Only the scenario writers are exempt. These are tied between the tails of two spirited Caucasian ponies, which are then driven off… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
I got to travel to some pretty awesome places, learn other people's customs, and see what works in their world differently than… — Harris Faulkner Copy Share Image
By Anglicising ourselves we have thrown away with a light heart the best claim we have upon the world's recognition of us… — Douglas Hyde Copy Share Image
A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
If you are curious, you won't be satisfied with the "tyranny of custom." People stuck in that rut might say "why?" and… — John Medina Copy Share Image
What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I must confess I am a fop in my heart; ill customs influence my very senses, and I have been so used… — George Etherege Copy Share Image
Freedom is where you can live, as pleases a brave heart; where you can live according to the customs and laws of… — Ernst Moritz Arndt Copy Share Image
That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have… — Ivo Andric Copy Share Image
Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both… — Allyson Schwartz Copy Share Image
These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the… — Virgil Copy Share Image
We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of… — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
Dancing as an art, we may be sure, cannot die out, but will always be undergoing a rebirth. Not merely as an… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
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