habit quotes
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Espiar a vida alheia, inquirir dos escravos o que se passava no interior das casas, era naquele tempo coisa ta o comum e enraizada nos costumes, que ainda hoje, depois depassados tantos anos, restam grandes vest|gios de" s se belo ha bito. Spying on other people's lives, asking slaves what was goingoninsidetheirhouseswasthenso commonandsuch a part of ourcustomsthat today, after so many years have passed, we have many remnants of such a beautiful habit.
Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.
We have a habit in this country of correcting things just as they are about to correct themselves.
Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am compelled to say, is the most pernicious of all the habits formed by civilized man.
Habit with him was all the test of truth, 'It must be right: I've done it from my youth.'
You're Getting to be a Habit with Me.
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worryabout the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to do the work.
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.
The identifying ourselves with the visual image of ourselves has become an instinct; the habit is already old. The picture of me, the me that is seen, is me.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
You may call it coalition, you may call it the accidental and fortuitous concurrence of atomsbut when gentlemen are in the habit of finding themselves in the same Lobby, it is not unnatural to suppose that they may, under certain circumstances, be ready to unite themselves together for the purpose of forming an Administration and becoming responsible for the opinions that they severally entertain.
I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else.
The country habit has me by the heart, For he's bewitched for ever who has seen, Not with his eyes but with his vision, Spring Flow down the woods and stipple leaves with sun.
Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and has stimulated the hope of instant results.
Those who have the habit of revelation lose the habit of thought.
The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom and education
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power stations. I hope that, encouraged now as patriotism, it may remain a habit! But it won't do any good, if it is not universal.
He must have known me had heseen meashe was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
A habit cannot be tossed out of the window, it must be coaxed down the stairs one step at a time.
See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.
Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilisation has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.
I shook the habit off Entirely and for ever, and again In Nature's presence stood, as now I stand, A sensitive being, a creative soul.
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