I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
It is possible for two people who have wide differences of preference and opinion, of habits, of teaching, of training, of background… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
When I left the theatre and turned to writing, one of the big pulls was that, unlike the theatre, I didn't have… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
I'm a creature of habit and I like to stay in my own little comfort zone, but you have to reach out… — LaToya Jackson Copy Share Image
You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am compelled to say, is the most pernicious of… — Constantine the Great Copy Share Image
Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious… — Alcee Hastings Copy Share Image
I play every day. It's like a habit for me now. I just, if I don't play, I kind of miss -… — Herb Alpert Copy Share Image
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the… — Thomas Troward Copy Share Image
There is a saying, 'Eyes are the windows to the soul.' It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye… — Peng Liyuan Copy Share Image
Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that… — Roshon Fegan Copy Share Image
A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The advantages of whiskey over dogs are legion. Whiskey does not need to be periodically wormed, it does not need to be… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule:… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
When you have God-given talent, I think that that kind of hinders your practice habits and that's what I think it did… — Tracy McGrady Copy Share Image
If u ignore the mountain, it doesn't mean mountain will ignore you too ... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I have seen that there are a number of people who benefit from doing loving kindness meditation, either prior to or along… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
No matter what happens - never give up a hole....In tossing in your cards after a bad beginning you also undermine your… — Sam Snead Copy Share Image
It"s good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Plasticity, then, in the wide sense of the word, means the possession of a structure weak enough to yield to an influence,… — William James Copy Share Image
My weak spot is laziness. I have a lot of weak spots - cookies, croissants; my wife is always lecturing me about… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
