Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it,… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic… — Harold Laski Copy Share Image
I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
There are a variety of ways in which a wedge is driven between the reality of the world outside, the motion of… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I think that, in my humble opinion, that the world is divided, and the media has a very good, a very predictable… — David Draiman Copy Share Image
When you're literally carrying a child you can cut back on bad habits. — Jemima Kirke Copy Share Image
A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is,… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough. — Robert Rhodes James Copy Share Image
Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and… — Edward Burnett Tylor Copy Share Image
Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go -… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
A time will come, and soon, when, from mere habit, you will echo the scream of every delirious wretch that harbors near… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
Our normal tendency is to feel dissatisfied and to criticize our body, speech, and mind - My body is out of shape;… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
I never have any clothes to go out in, because I always just buy for work. I don't know why. Habit. — Savannah Guthrie Copy Share Image
What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Many intellectuals in America and in Europe, they are in the habit of taking sides: who are the bad guys? who are… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
People are in the habit of classifying life’s activities into those which are mundane and those which are religious. Remember, though, only… — Khurram Murad Copy Share Image
Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
The spirit is the only thing that is free within, which has no hang-ups, which has no habits, which does not stick… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
