Habitually Quotes
122 quotes by 107 authors
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For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor with any desire…
— John Owen
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Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Straightway is a power word. Straightway is an action word. It means immediately, without delay or hesitation. It means at once. Also, it is associated…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain…
— Ezra Pound
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No doubt a man may be saved, like the penitent thief, without having received the Lord's Supper. It is not a matter of absolute and…
— J C Ryle
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Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was an excellent place…
— Richard Russo
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I like to imagine a person's psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and who habitually follow…
— James Hillman
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Many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment,…
— Eckhart Tolle
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All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations…
— Fred Brooks
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Whatever attitudes we habitually use toward ourselves, we will use on others, and whatever attitudes we habitually use toward others, we will use on ourselves.
— Henepola Gunaratana
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The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from…
— Ray Stannard Baker
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It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
— John Drinkwater
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You are not what you think you are, but WHAT YOU THINK, the thoughts that habitually possess your mind, that is what you are
— Claude M. Bristol
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Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.
— Vance Havner
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With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
— Anthony Storr
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Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that…
— Jennifer Egan
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We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking…
— Deborah Tall
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For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the…
— William James
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I cannot overstate how much a generous spirit contributes to good luck. Look at the luckiest people around you, the ones you envy, the ones…
— Twyla Tharp
Who Wrote These Habitually Quotes
107 authors contributed a total of 122 Habitually Quotes, led by these top contributors: