We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.
~By Richard V. Allen ~
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
~By Agatha Christie ~
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.
~By Ezra Cornell ~
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.
~By Thomas Babington ~
Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.
~By William Lyon Mackenzie King ~
Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.
~By Tom Holt ~
Habits change into character.
~By Ovid ~
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.
~By Rod Blagojevich ~
No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.
~By Jacques Yves Cousteau ~
I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.
~By Kurt Masur ~
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.
~By Walter Pater ~
Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.
~By Alice Meynell ~
Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.
~By Lee Strasberg ~
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Good habits are worth being fanatical about.
~By John Irving ~
Long-lasting change that will help you create new habits and actions requires an inside-out approach, as well as two very important tools: the mirror and time.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
~By Brian Tracy ~
The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat.
~By Susan George ~
My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.
~By Eric Allin Cornell ~
I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though.
~By Tori Spelling ~
In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.
~By Bruno Bettelheim ~
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
~By Barbra Streisand ~
Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.
~By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps ~
It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.
~By Charles A. Jaffe ~
You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven.
~By Dennis Miller ~
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.
~By John James Audubon ~
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
~By Mark Twain ~
It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.
~By Elihu Root ~
Your behavior is based on your beliefs, and what you do and say, over and over again, helps develop your habits.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
~By Richard Whately ~
It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.
~By Merrill Markoe ~
Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
~By Clarence Darrow ~
Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
~By Al Franken ~
The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.
~By Alexandra Paul ~
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
~By Arthur M. Schlesinger ~
We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.
~By Maurice Strong ~
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
~By Jack Nicklaus ~
And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.
~By Joan Collins ~
The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.
~By Jerome Hines ~
I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.
~By Fred Frith ~
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.
~By Layne Staley ~
There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.
~By Josh Duhamel ~
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
~By Charles J. Givens ~
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
~By Ben Hecht ~
I am not a politician, and my other habits air good.
~By Charles Farrar Browne ~
I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.
~By David James Elliott ~
Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.
~By Ron Lewis ~
I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them.
~By Judith Wright ~
A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.
~By Jenny Craig ~
Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
~By Saint Teresa ~
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.
~By Jose Bergamin ~
War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.
~By Rebecca H. Davis ~
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
~By Plutarch ~
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.
~By June Jordan ~
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
~By Evan Esar ~
It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, and are developing good eating habits for their future.
~By Kent Conrad ~
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
~By Antoine Rivarol ~
Old habits are strong and jealous.
~By Dorothea Brande ~
As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
~By Major Taylor ~
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.
~By William Dunbar ~
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
~By John Dryden ~
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
~By Albert Einstein ~
The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.
~By Chauncey Wright ~
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
~By Lillian Hellman ~
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
~By Edith Wharton ~
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
~By Stephen Covey ~
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
~By Agatha Christie ~
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
~By Edward Sapir ~
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
~By Aristotle ~
Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.
~By Dee Hock ~
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
~By Edward Bernays ~
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
~By Ralph W. Sockman ~
It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.
~By Shirley Jones ~
I don't have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me.
~By Eubie Blake ~
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
~By Fyodor Dostoevsky ~
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
~By John Dryden ~
It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.
~By Frederick William Robertson ~
In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
~By Robert Hall ~
I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.
~By John James Audubon ~
The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.
~By Bjorn Ulvaeus ~
Laws are never as effective as habits.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
~By Charles Dickens ~
Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you "don't have the time".
~By Bo Bennett ~
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
~By Charles Darwin ~
Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
~By William James ~
Ultimately, your state of mind determines your circumstances. To realize the outcomes you want, it is critical to recognize and experience the transition from our present thoughts, habits, and actions to new thoughts, habits, and actions.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
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