People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It is evident from the state of the country, from the habits of the people, from the experience we have had on… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
I give culture this meaning: exercise of thought, acquisition of general ideas, habit of connecting causes and effects ... I believe that… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
In the weeks that followed, we amazed ourselves. Our habits slid apart easily...And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Few are born bold. Even Napoleon had to cultivate the habit on the battlefield, where he knew it was a matter of… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
“Writing is difficult. You do it all alone without encouragement and without any certainty that you'll ever be published or paid or… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
When a child is learning to write, it is extremely easy for it to hold the pen wrongly, and to form its… — James Allen Copy Share Image
It has been our experience that if a young man decides to go on a mission, he can not only play well… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
The biggest bursts of speciation that we know about in the history of the earth are soon after great cataclysms, like the… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
There is a woman named Wendy Wood, who did a study when she was at Duke, and she followed around college students… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties,… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
When we want to infuse new ideas, to modify or better the habits and customs of a people, to breathe new vigor… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
I had a habit of watching classic wrestling pretty much on repeat in the locker rooms. With the influx of talent at… — Cody Rhodes Copy Share Image
Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to… — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
Working is very important to me. Probably because as a child I was taught that work was good. I don't believe it… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
If you want to develop courage, then simply act courageously when it's called for. If you do something over and over again,… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
As Bridget writes to her son, in Bridget Jones' Baby - "if you just keep calm and keep your spirits up, things… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Never waste time and energy, trying to figure out why some people stick their noses up other peoples business, because you just… — Jummai Abdullahi Copy Share Image
We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able… — Vinoba Bhave Copy Share Image
Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing the service… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I would always be going from L.A. to Miami to New York, to Russia, St-Tropez. Costs about $50,000 for a domestic flight,… — Scott Storch Copy Share Image
Juventus are specialists because they have the habit to win and the habit to put pressure on the referee. It's a club… — Mauricio Pochettino Copy Share Image
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
All of us have schnozzles... if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles,… — Jimmy Durante Copy Share Image
I think of empathy as a set of cumulative effects, ideally - that it can be a force shaping your habits, shaping… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Truly wealthy people develop the habit of "getting rich slow" rather than "getting rich quick." To assure this, they have two rules… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical… — William James Copy Share Image
