Quotes 81 till 100 of 165.
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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 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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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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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.
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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
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Never permit failure to become a habit.
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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No female iniquity was more severely condemned [in the 14th century] than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.
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No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
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Not choice but habit rules the unreflecting herd.
Grant that by this (1822) -
Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.
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