I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit. ~By Allyson Schwartz ~
I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen. ~By Ben Kingsley ~
Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting. ~By Jack Osbourne ~
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear. ~By Aldous Huxley ~
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 ~
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse. ~By John Drinkwater ~
San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty. ~By Rudyard Kipling ~
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit. ~By Salman Rushdie ~
I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being. ~By Claire Danes ~
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. ~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. ~By James A. Baldwin ~
The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage devoted to them in the regions where they are grown habitually. ~By David F. Houston ~
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. ~By Henry Miller ~
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 ~
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 ~
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. ~By Charles Baudelaire ~
In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants. ~By John Boyd Orr ~
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them. ~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them. ~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune. ~By Richard Whately ~
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests. ~By Gail Sheehy ~
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 ~
Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school. ~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants. ~By Jessamyn West ~
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 ~
I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character. ~By Kurt Masur ~
Old habits are strong and jealous. ~By Dorothea Brande ~
Vices are often habits rather than passions. ~By Antoine Rivarol ~
The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves. ~By Jack Hanna ~
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. ~By C. S. Lewis ~
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. ~By Napoleon Hill ~
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality. ~By George William Russell ~
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 ~
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other. ~By Audre Lorde ~
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 ~
Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit. ~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while. ~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. ~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked. ~By Gary Ryan Blair ~
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 ~
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. ~By Mark Twain ~
A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia. ~By Phillip Noyce ~
War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth. ~By Ernie Pyle ~
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. ~By Colin Powell ~
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~By Thomas Paine ~
Good habits are worth being fanatical about. ~By John Irving ~
Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy. ~By Napolean Hill ~
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit. ~By Martha Gellhorn ~
It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind. ~By Johannes P. Muller ~
China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese. ~By Charles de Gaulle ~
I got nasty habits; I take tea at three. ~By Mick Jagger ~
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 ~
Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see. ~By Bebe Neuwirth ~
The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland. ~By Edward Burnett Tylor ~
The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones. ~By Jerome Hines ~
The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last Letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent. ~By George Catlin ~
But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace? ~By Thomas Day ~
It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea. ~By Charles Lyell ~
A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you're inhabiting their - let's say, their domain. So they're aggravated with you. ~By Sylvia Browne ~
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort. ~By Pierre de Coubertin ~
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. ~By Mary Martin ~
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. ~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something. ~By Rush Limbaugh ~
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 ~
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object. ~By Henry Fuseli ~
While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live. ~By John Oldham ~
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied. ~By Charles de Secondat ~
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. ~By Barbara Tuchman ~
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State. ~By O. Henry ~
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed. ~By O. Henry ~
It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits. ~By Charles A. Jaffe ~
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time. ~By Charles de Gaulle ~
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. ~By Abraham Lincoln ~
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. ~By Aldous Huxley ~
India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people. ~By Manmohan Singh ~
The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery. ~By William Kingdon Clifford ~
War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums. ~By Rebecca H. Davis ~
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 ~
Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do. ~By Mary Richards ~
Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you. ~By Ovid ~
To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed. ~By Robert B. Laughlin ~
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ~By Albert Einstein ~
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. ~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. ~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them. ~By Johannes Brahms ~
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 ~
Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits. ~By Charles J. Givens ~
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. ~By Seamus Heaney ~
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 ~
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds. ~By Walter Bagehot ~
Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express. ~By George A. Smith ~
I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper. ~By Eric Taylor ~
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? ~By Khalil Gibran ~
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage. ~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. ~By Tryon Edwards ~
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts. ~By Henry Moore ~
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. ~By Errol Flynn ~
There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females. ~By Ezra Cornell ~
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. ~By Aldous Huxley ~
If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart. ~By J. M. Coetzee ~
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