The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Society in general maintains such a vested interested in its cozy habits and solidified belief systems that it had rather die -… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
Death doesn't make you sad- it makes you empty. That's what's so bad about it. All of your charms and beliefs and… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Almost everything we'll ever do in life that is really powerful, that really produces a result in our lives, that quantum-leaps us… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
There are many people who enjoy animal based foods and who have no interest in changing the way they eat. And as… — Gary Player Copy Share Image
I think the big myth about habits, and happiness too, is that there's somehow a magic "one size fits all" solution. That,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
If we are to achieve long-range goals, we must learn to set up and accomplish short-range goals that will move us along… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
In all the areas of life where people have sought and found consolation through forbidding their desires-sex in particular, and taste in… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my… — Catherine Brady 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
When you get into the habit of leaving a space, you become a much better player for it. If you've got an… — Gary Moore 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
To commit violent and unjust acts, it is not enough for a government to have the will or even the power; the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
There are... for us no instincts—we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
I'm hesitant to ascribe too much to luck because I think women have a bad habit of doing that. At the same… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make… — Ivan Lendl Copy Share Image
Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
When the individual is relieved of the obligation of self-respect, he acquires the habits of helplessness; he is inclined to retreat to… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
You don't have to be in the habit of going to church to listen to such a literary minister; you don't have… — John Irving Copy Share Image
...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing.… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
A former congressman on his sexting habit: I have made terrible mistakes. I have not been honest with myself, my family, my… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
I don't know about habit, we've had a practice of it for as long as I've been doing this program [the Rush… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I get weary of the European habit of taking our money, resenting any slight hint as to what they should do, and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and… — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
Because of the increasing rates of obesity, unhealthy eating habits and physical inactivity, we may see the first generation that will be… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image