Habit Quotes - Page 28

• I fell, you see. Trod on my abbot, Father Habit. Oh, dear! I mean.

  Brian Jacques

  Father, Mean, Dear

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• No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Pain, Men, Wonder

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.256, Dell

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• You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

  Anne Carson

  Mother, Men, Breakfast

  Anne Carson (2000). “Plainwater: essays and poetry”, Vintage Books

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• There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in a new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Betrayal, War, Heart

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Nov 22, 2015

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• Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to "kill the flesh" is to starve it; to stop feeding it.

  Joyce Meyer

  Trying, Flesh, Way

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• In the weeks that followed, we amazed ourselves. Our habits slid apart easily...And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did they go, those things we did? Were they recycled? Did some new couple in China do them? Were a Swedish man and woman foot to foot at this very moment?

  Miranda July

  Couple, Men, Feet

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• Of offering more than what I can deliver, I have a bad habit, it is true. But I have to offer more than I can deliver, To be able to deliver what I do.

  Ken Kesey

  Offering, Able, Offers

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• Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?

  Wilkie Collins

  Men, Ideas, Intellectual

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “The Woman in White”, p.475, Courier Corporation

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• Death doesn't make you sad- it makes you empty. That's what's so bad about it. All of your charms and beliefs and funny habits fall fast through a big black hole, and suddenly you know they're gone because just as suddenly, there's nothing left at all inside.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Fall, Black, Gone

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• Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.

  Sloane Crosley

  Grateful, Wine, Youth

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.61, Portobello Books

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• The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.

  Adam Smith

  Stupid, Exercise, Simple

  Adam Smith (2017). “The Wealth of Nations (illustrated)”, p.590, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Art, Poetry, May

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.223, Penguin

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• Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Song, Commitment

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• It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Practice, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1943). “He Follows Christ”

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• Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Giving, Devil

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 160

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• ...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch is a reassurance, not an affront or a nuissance. Whose heavy breathing neither enrages nor discusts you, but amuses you like that of a cherished pet.

  Toni Morrison

  Lying, Night, Breathing

  Toni Morrison (1992). “Jazz”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to taste innocence again. Looking at sensations freshly without the conceptual overly was very profound.

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  Ram Dass

  Profound, Mind, Patterns

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• it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.

  John Steinbeck

  Laughter, Women, Materials

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.58, Hamilton Books

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• She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt or fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials....She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall.

  John Steinbeck

  Strong, Hurt, Laughter

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• Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  People, Community, Saint

  Stanley Hauerwas, John Swinton (2004). “Critical Reflections on Stanley Hauerwas' Theology of Disability: Disabling Society, Enabling Theology”, p.74, Routledge

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• What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that's not true at all. The real world is a much darker and deeper place than this, and much of it is occupied by jellyfish and things.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Thinking, World

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from May 10, 2015

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• It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.

  Jane Austen

  Writing, Practice, Style

  Jane Austen (2012). “Northanger Abbey”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

  Arundhati Roy

  Kind, Used, Said

  "The God of Small Things". Book by Arundhati Roy, 1997.

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• Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  World, Strange, Journalism

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

  George Eliot

  Men, Compassion, Feelings

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.406, Penguin

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