Quotes 81 till 100 of 179.
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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
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It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.''
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It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.
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It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.
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Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.
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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
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Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
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Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.
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Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.
The Human Stain (2000) -
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
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Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking.
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Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
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Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.
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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
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