Habit Quotes - Page 31

Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.

Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.

Clutter is my natural habitat.

I'm pleased to see that the cab is cluttered with cough drop wrappers and empty milk bottles and bits of mud-smeared newspapers made brittle by age. Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat.

One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.

The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming

I have a very bad habit of just retreating from any given altercation.

For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US for it.

Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. "Equals?" Miles hazarded. "Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.

Many of our threats are imaginary. The habits and even obsessions that we develop to keep them away are destructive and undermine our moods constantly.

A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.

If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.

Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.

It merely shews, after all, that affection is a habit.

habit is our idea of eternity.

I think women should make a habit of canceling the wars.

I've always been such a fan of Habitat for Humanity and the work that they do.

We will be at our best when times are at their worst because of our habits, attitude and chemistry.

If you take a look at Afghan history, usually they have united to defend against an outside enemy, and as soon as that's accomplished, they turn and start killing each other. This internal instability is a constant invitation to outside forces to come in. I have to think that after the awful years of the Taliban, most Afghans would want to remain at peace, and get the benefits of the new freedom they've found. But I can't be sure that old habits won't reassert themselves.

Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits.

When I'm making a movie, I never watch the dailies. I see the movie once and that's it. It's really not about that for me. It's not about the externals. When I'm on a set, I don't want to see it. I want to be subjective in it. That's my habit now.

Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.

Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you'd never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are just part of the universe.

People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.

Books form in us habits of thought which shall live forever with us.