Quotes of: Habitable Keyword

Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power, or debased by the habit of obedience; but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegitimate, and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.

Democracy in America

It's the way a man chooses to limit himself that determines his character. A man without habits, consistency, redundancy - and hence boredom - is not human. He's insane.

The Dice Man

The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.

The Education of Henry Adams

I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed.

Frankenstein

Better spend time working hard to maintain your good habits because you may look for time to recover it but to no avail!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

How can you make efficiency a habit, and an enjoyable one at that?

How To Focus - Stop Procrastinating, Improve Your Concentration & Get Things Done - Easily!

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't know yet about the habit they have, of coming back.

The Blind Assassin

Character isn't something you talk about; it's something you show through your actions-through your every day habits.

The B-Side Diaries

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way

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.

Albert Einstein

Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.

The Art of Scientific Investigation

What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.

After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.

The Arcades Project

I was craving a chance at the lifelong fantasy, and I had that. That was a one-off thing. I was looking for an experience, Eric, not wanting to cultivate a habit.

Amy's Gangbang Love Story

In the endeavor to establish a difficult habit, for example, mere wishing will never carry it to a successful conclusion; our wishing must rise to the level of WANTING if this goal is to be achieved.

The Art of Self-Control

I don't like rats any more than the next bloke, but they ain't wicked and cruel like people can be. They're just ratty in their habits.

I Was a Rat!

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.

The Round House

Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it’s best to avoid such things altogether.

Rise of the Morningstar

YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break...

Reaper Man

...actors today think that being true is being nice, or being some other "set" thing. That is not the truth. That is your miserable habit of boring everybody to death.

Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov