Habit Quotes
No female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.
For someone who’s made it clear that her life is superior to every other student’s at this school, you sure make it a habit of pursuing every facet of our boring, worthless lives.
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.
Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
I think the West needs to get away from the habit of regarding the regime's nuclear tests and ballistic launches as isolated provocations timed to generate maximum attention.
There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and is not habit bound.
I have to admit it that the large quantity of US money poured into Vietnam provoked ii...a lot of bad habits.
The way the Americans behaved created among the South Vietnamese a lot of habits, a lot of bad habits I would say.
So make it your aim and lifelong habit, when you see someone who's serving, to be reminded of the sacrifice of the Savior, for apart from His sacrifice there is no serving.
A habit for all of us to develop would be to look for something to appreciate in everyone we meet. We can all be generous with appreciation.
Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard.
I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.
In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained by a long habit of observing ourselves.
"It's an old habit of mine, Wal'r," said the Captain, "any time these fifty year. When you see Ned Cuttle bite his nails, Wal'r, then you may know that Ned Cuttle's aground."
Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.
One of the great things about being involved with comics is that those people are devoted to their characters, writers and artists. The average comic reader isn't casual about their habit.
We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.
We must constantly dare ourselves in the small things, until courage becomes a habit of mind that will serve us when we are unexpectedly tested.
I liked movies so much that they became an obsession. I am still trying to kick the habit.
I just find that each year I try something new. You can't fight the march of time. To balance that out, each year you should develop one more good habit. It levels the playing field.
The habit of shedding blood, or even of seeing it shed, corrupts all sentiment of humanity.
With prayer, you may be able to start one discipline or habit that will overflow into many more positive, God-honoring traits.
People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.
We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are.
Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.
The solution is to ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one.
Lies are like sleeping pills. You should only use them when you absolutely have to. They spoil everything if you make a habit of them.
...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit.
Psychological studies reveal that 95 percent of everything we feel, think, and achieve is a result of a learned habit!
The habit of going to your congressman's town hall and asking questions, that's powerful in a way that shouting slogans or getting arrested is not, that is completely counterproductive.
Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.
